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Introduction To Hearing Seven Thunders





Bereshith / Genesis

God created with a flourish of mystery.  Six days of suspense and anticipation were created leading up to the revelation of the Sabbath of Intimacy with God.  


When the seventh angel of revelation starts to blow the awesome sound, the full understanding of how we will quickly pass from "the six days of time" into the eternal Sabbath Embrace with God will be made known to God's Assembly of Prophets in the world.  

This is the meaning of "...there should be time no longer," in Revelation 10:6
and of "...the mystery of God should be finished," in Revelation 10:7






WHY IS THERE AN OPENLY CONCEALED MESSAGE 

IN THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION OF YEHOSHUA THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL?



Concealment As Revelation As Recorded In Revelation 10

Even though John was told not to write down what he heard, we are told about John's experience itself.  Why?  

Since one could think that no information is given, why are we even told that this happened? 

Could John not have simply been directed to write the fact that more was revealed to him but that he could not write all of it?  We see exactly this type of statement at the end of John's Gospel record.  Why do we not find this kind of simple statement here?  

The answer is that the information given about John's experience to do with eating the little book provides for a great deal of revelation to those who search the Scriptures.

To begin with, the voices of the seven thunders here in Revelation chapter 10 can be seen to have a direct correlation to the seven voices of Psalm 29.  As well, to understand the significance of the little book we can look at the experience of Ezekiel. 

Much can be revealed then by looking closely at the angel who holds the little book and by all that is said about John's experience in relation to the thunders and this book and the time when it occurs in the setting of the whole revelation.  Finally, the question:  What is being referred to by "the mystery that God has revealed to his prophets" can be asked.  And then what this means in relation to the statement that there will be no more time can be studied.   This must be studied especially in relation to the question about the meaning of the expression, "the mystery of God".

All of the many mysterious elements of this chapter come together in the concluding mystery of John being told that the reason he is to conceal what he hears the seven thunders say is that he must speak again at another time before the whole world.  Thus we see that the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ contains within it, at its very center, a marked concealment.  There is something concealed in the very nature of the revelation of the Messiah of Israel.  It is promised that what is concealed from the writing of the book shall be revealed orally.





ISAIAH 52:1-7 
(NIV)
with notes



1 Awake, awake, O Zion,
       clothe yourself with strength.
       Put on your garments of splendor,
       O Jerusalem, the holy city.
       The uncircumcised and defiled
       will not enter you again.
 2 Shake off your dust;
       rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.
       Free yourself from the chains on your neck,
       O captive Daughter of Zion.
 3 For this is what the LORD says:
       "You were sold for nothing,
       and without money you will be redeemed."
 4 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
       "At first my people went down to Egypt to live;
       lately, Assyria has oppressed them.
 5 "And now what do I have here?" declares the LORD.
       "For my people have been taken away for nothing,
       and those who rule them mock, [a] "
       declares the LORD.
       "And all day long
       my name is constantly blasphemed.
 6 Therefore my people will know my name;
       therefore in that day they will know
       that it is I who foretold it.
       Yes, it is I."
 7 How beautiful on the mountains
       are the feet of those who bring good news,
       who proclaim peace,
       who bring good tidings,
       who proclaim salvation,
       who say to Zion,
       "Your God reigns!
                          




ISAIAH 52: 1-7 notes

Here is a summary declaration of "the mystery of God, which he decalred unto his prophets, which we read about in Revelation chapter 10. 

Israel shall know God's name, and Israel's knowing God's name shall be God's testimony to all nations that he is the one true God.  The mystery shall be finished. 

This is "time no more."  And this is the final stage of the redemption of Israel - when God's name shall be fully know by Israel and shall begin to be known in all the earth.

The Lord Yehoshua (Jesus) said in John chapter 17 that his whole purpose is to reveal the name of the Father.

Earlier in chapter 7 of Revelation we read of All-Israel being sealed in their foreheads with the name of the father, the son and the bride - see Revelation 3:12. 

We begin to understand, then, that the message of the seven thunders and Revelation chapter 10 cannot be passed over but is intimately interwoven with John chapter 17 and the whole plan of redemption and the rectification of all things.

This is the doctrines of revelation as it is taught in 1 Corinthians 15.  For, again, there is an equation between the message of the seven thunders and the people of God being sealed in one unified body from the judgments of God through the knowledge of the name of God.





Gen. 28:15

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.



The mystery of G-d spoken of in Revelation 10:7, revealed solely to the prophets of G-d, is encapsulated in the verses from Malachi 1:2-3.  This is the mystery that spans the chasm between time and eternity, between this word and the world to come.  It is the mystery of the words, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated".  


This mystery can be unfolded from Genesis 28:15 ~

"Behold, I am with you..." This has not happened to you without happening to me.  My Hand was in it.
"...and will keep you wherever you go..." This exile will not be your only exile.  I will  be with you in all and turn all things in all places to serve you, so that you may be free to serve Me, though you are hurt, nothing will harm you in the end.
"...and will bring you back to this land..." ...from every exile.
"...for I will not leave you.  Whatever is done to the least among you is done unto me.
"I will stay with you (wherever you go) until I have done what I have spoken to you." This journey is my choice.  It is my choice that we should take it together.

This is the promise of God to Jacob both as an individual and as the father of Israel.  Thus it remains to Israel today as in the day of her father Jacob's first exile.

In association with the giving of this promise is the secret of God's own sovereign purpose in Jacob being exiled from the land through the envy of Esau. 

To understand this, one must first understand the story of Jacob and Esau.  This story can best be understood from the point of view of their father Isaac.

Isaac was the true firstborn.  Esau was the firstborn also by the same criteria as his father, Isaac was the firstborn.  He was born both of the father and of the mother chosen by God.  Should he not therefore be loved as such by his father?  

From this point of view, the point of view of Isaac, it can be understood that Esau, because he was self-reliant, would have to be converted through the promise of the seed, as Abraham was converted to this promise through the trial of Isaac and as Isaac was himself at the same time.  Should Isaac not count on this?

But Rebecca love Jacob as though he were the true firstborn according to the promise that was made to her.  This, then, is the great mystery of why God loved Jacob with Rebecca and not Esau with Isaac as the firstborn.

Paul speaks about this mystery in Romans.  First he shows that the firstborn is defined in Isaac in accordance with the calling of God.  This established that in the world of redemption, the firstborn is not counted automatically by natural inheritance of the son from the father.  

Then Paul states that the firstborn is not only defined in accordance with the calling of God but also with the choice of God, which is beyond anything natural at all.  This is illustrated by God’s choice of Jacob over Esau when they were still in Rebecca’s womb.  

For the calling is to a natural adam but the choice behind and beyond that calling is something beyond any possibility of knowing, because there is nothing in Creation upon which it can be said to be based.  

This is the source of Esau’s envy of Jacob and the reason God promises with the guarantee He gives to redeem Jacob in the end and fulfill all His Word to him and for him.

This is the key of understanding that is given to us to understand the mystery of G-d revealed to His prophets.  In investing Himself entirely with Abraham, Isaac and with Jacob, He has made known His sovereignty to the world.  

G-d has concealed His Name, the true knowledge of him from the Adam and has revealed it in His journey of redemption with Jacob.

In the day when the angel with the seventh trumpet begins to sound that trumpet the mystery of G-d will be finished because the servants of G-d will be sealed in their foreheads with the name of G-d.  They will all be renewed in their minds with the knowledge of His name through the knowledge and confession of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah.

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