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 Rev.10:2and he had a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land, <>>>> MCK notes:  The little scroll in the angel's hand is open.  It is time for its contents to be heard.  Yochanan will hear its contents but will not be allowed to reveal what he hears in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach.  What is here heard by Yochanan will be kept in an oral tradition until the end of days when it will be revealed, before all rulers and all peoples.  What is written in the little scroll has application to all the continents of the earth, to the seas and to the land.  This reference corresponds to the word of Yehoshua that before the end comes the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah would be announced to the ends of the earth.


If we take a step back and look at the way that chapter 10 fits into the structure of the Book, we can sharpen our focus in seeing the meaning of the little book.  Just before the final three trumpets sound, Yochanan sees and hears an angel in the form of an eagle flying high overhead making and marking a very important announcement:

8:13I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead, crying out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound!”

 Just before the third of these three woes this interlude in the narrative of judgment comes, beginning with chapter 10 and going on through chapter 14.   The end of chapter 14 is a transition out of this interlude of inside information and back to the narrative of the final seven vials or seven bowls of judgment, which all people on earth are made to experience and "understand", whether or not they can understand the inside information given in chapters 10-14.  Just before the end of chapter 14, just before it transitions out of the insider information back to the narrative of the judgments upon the nations which come out of the blowing of the seventh trumpet, Yochanan sees another angel making and marking a very important announcement flying overhead:

Rev.14:6Then I saw another angel flying high overhead, having the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people. 7He spoke with a loud voice: “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

In this parallel of angels flying overhead to mark special announcements to all the world the first is an announcement embedded within the narrative that is directed to and that will be understood by the nations, like the narrative addressed by Moshe and Aaron to Pharaoh.  This second part of this parallel is embedded in the insider interlude, which corresponds to Moshe speaking inside information to Israel between the judgments, and especially concerning the preparation of the Passover just before the final judgment.  This second angelic announcement is to reveal the meaning of the judgments, especially the last three woes.  Just as the Passover and the redemption of Israel from Egypt was the reason for the judgments upon Egypt, as explained to the believers, those who believed Moshe and Aaron, so the revelation of the eternal good news, the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, is the reason for the judgments in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach, the judgments that come upon all nations.

When this angel making the announcement flies overhead this time two other angels follow it. The first angel announces that the purpose of the judgments is the final revelation of the Good News of Israel's redemption through the Lamb of G-d, who was sacrificed for her.  This angel is described as having the responsibility of making sure this good news is heard by every nation, tribe, language and people.  This is a direct reference to the same responsibility that was prophetically given to Yochanan at the end of the vision of the little book in chapter 10.  We see that this angel is carrying within it the responsibility of the content of the voice of the seven thunders, that which Yochanan was to keep as oral tradition until the last day of prophetic testimony.

The announcement of the second angel, who immediately follows is:

8A second angel followed, saying: “It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen, who made all nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath.”

Matthew 24:14.  It is when the good news of the kingdom is announced to the ends of the earth that the end comes.  This begins with the end of Babylon the Great, whose only power is in darkness, the concealment of the truth of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah.  Therefore this second angel follows the first angel, which announces the good news in accordance with the promise of the little book and the seven thunders, as given to Yochanan in Revelation 10:11.

The reference to the sexual immorality of Babylon the Great is a reference to the whole rebellion of the natural Adam, the corporate Human Race, as it is called in This World, the rebellion against all obedience to the Creator.  Babylon the Great is the mind, the organized evil inclination, that leads the world in inventing the devices of its rebellion against the Creator.  Rebellion is in all the seven facets of the universal commandment given to the Adam.  That commandment is well known, not to partake of the knowledge which belongs to the Creator alone, the knowledge for judging what is good for creation and what is evil for creation.  

In Revelation 9:20 we saw listed the sins for which the world under the domination of Babylon the Great would not repent.  All these sins are the weapons of Babylon the Great's rebellion against the Creator of heaven and earth:   

1. Blasphemy, which is ultimately for the purpose of sorcery.  This spirit is present as the spirit in all cursing.  All the evil of the human tongue originates from the misuse of the Holy Name, which is at the foundation of Babylon the Great.   
2. Idolatry, the self-worship of the creature.  Today this self-worship expresses itself most notably as the arrogance of atheistic science and amoral technology.  In times past wood and stone sculptures were worshiped as gods.  Today, physical matter and physical energy themselves are served above all else and honored as the one true reality.  No one hides the nature of this idolatry of materialism.  Without shame, the shameful confession is universally made, "I only believe what I can see with my own eyes, what I can see demonstrated and proved."  This is the shameful confession that the highest god to the arrogant human being today is their own mind.
   
3. The insidious corruption of justice.  Everywhere there is rationalization of means in the service of "just" ends; this is the evil of the Godless human heart.  In refusing to take full responsibility for truth and self-government the human heart chooses to compromise with lies, and therefore is brought into the service of demons.   According to the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel, whoever will not repent and obey the commandments of the Creator of heaven and earth, the God of Israel, will end by avowing their servitude to demons.
   
4. Destruction of life.   Whoever does not love the commandment of their Creator love death.  Yehoshua the Savior and Messiah of Israel said of Lucifer that he was a murderer from the beginning.  From the beginning Lucifer hated the commandment of his Creator.  He is a murderer and rages against all life.  The Adam was deceived by the serpent into believing that freeing life from the restrictions of the Creator's commandment would liberate life.  This lie that the end, liberty, could justify the means, rebellion, covered over the deeper lie.  The serpent, Lucifer, speaking through the animal, lied to the Adam by implying that he cared about the life that the Creator had created.  He did not.  All rebellion against the commandment of the Creator is hatred of life.  In believing the serpent the Adam became a student, a child of the serpent, a murderer.  The Great Babylon is the nurse employed by Lucifer to sustain all murder, war and violence in the world under the cover of darkness.
   
5. Perversion of misused love.  It is this perversion that enables the delusion of idolatry.  The misuse of love expresses itself most obviously as sexual immorality.  And it is through the unrestrained spread of sexual immorality that Babylon the Great entices and captures the souls of all the world.  Therefore, it is by this sin that she is identified and known above all others.  However, the greatest goals of Babylon the Great are idolatry and sorcery, and it is primarily through immorality and the perverting of love that souls are brought fully into the captivity of idolatry and then into sorcery.  For the delusion of idolatry is the delusion of self-worship, belief above all in one's own thought.  It is love that prevents this spiritual insanity.  Therefore the spirit of rebellion against the truth and justice of the Creator takes opportunity through the fear of death and the need for love to pervert and twist love, seducing souls into acts of immorality.  When love has been twisted it can no longer protect the human heart against arrogance and where there is arrogance the delusion of idolatry can grow.
6. Stealing wealth, power and souls.  Thieves are portrayed as the stereotype adversary of law and order, but Babylon the Great is the great thief.  And Babylon the Great is supported by the law and order of the four empires of the nations that keep Israel in captivity through the ages.  All that Babylon the Great has is stolen.  All who steal learn her craft.
7. Predatory behavior toward all creators.  The devil is the great predator, the great parasite.  His kingdom becomes manifested in the end as the kingdom of all evil predators, all demon-hearted human beings, those who choose to live to war against all that is from Yehoshua the Lamb of Israel, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, those whose lust is cruelty.

The announcement of the third angel, who then follows is:

9And a third angel followed them and spoke with a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is mixed full strength in the cup of His anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb, 11and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name. 12This demands the perseverance of the saints, who keep God’s commands and their faith in Yehoshua.”

As is seen in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel, when the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah is announced to the ends of the earth Jerusalem's light will come.  The cover of darkness that has covered the earth will be taken away.  Babylon the Great will be exposed.  That great mystery of iniquity will no longer have any power to deceive the nations.  The great serpent and his false messiah and his kingdom will then have no more use for the trap of Babylon the Great.  The beast, the great predator, and all who worship his image, will be exposed and destroyed by the truth.  For this reason this third angel follows the second, which follows the first.

Revelation's Little Book | series post #1

Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue Door (Photo credit: upyernoz)

Rev. 10:1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. <>>>> MCK notes:  Yochanan/John has just witnessed angel's blowing the trumpets of judgment upon the nations.  These angels, these messengers, parallel in a certain way Moshe and Aaron before Pharaoh.  Just as Moshe and Aaron announced the judgments that would come upon Egypt before they came, so these trumpeting angels are messengers announcing the judgments that come upon the nations before they occur.  However, to this point the hearts of the nations are seen to be as hard as the heart of Pharaoh.  Just like the Nazis of Germany, the hearts of the nations at the time of the judgments that Yochanan/John witnesses are full of hatred toward the God of Israel and will not repent.  When Yochanan sees "another angel", he has just heard this testimony:

Rev. 9:20The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.  And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.*

By "another" angel, Yochanan/John indicates that he recognizes that the angel that he now sees is of a different order than those who have been trumpeting the announcement of the judgments.  In that this angel  is most likely the same who brought the revelation of the presence of Yehoshua HaMashiach himself in the first chapter, who is also the angel to whom Yehoshua entrusted the overall revelation to Yochanan and to all to whom it is given through Yochanan, as is given in Revelation chapter 22 verse 16, there is a great "hint" of the Holy Scripture that is being given here.  The secret reason of these judgments will be given here.  This same hint is given in the fact that this is an interlude in the series of judgments taking place.  In the narrative of the judgments upon Egypt there is also an interlude pattern woven into the narrative.  The heart of that interlude pattern comes just before the final judgment, the judgment upon the firstborn of Egypt. 


Here this interlude comes just before the seventh trumpeting angel sounds.  When that angel does trumpet its announcement it is the final warning of judgment.  After that there are no more warnings, only the seven vials or bowls which represent the wrath of G-d poured out in full measure.  These seven vials or bowls are seven aspects of the last judgment.  This last judgment upon the nations corresponds to the last judgment upon Egypt, that upon the firstborn.  In both cases there was no more warning.  Once the judgment had been announced it came irrevocably.  However, before it came there was an interlude when the narrative of judgment in Egypt came away from the outside world and became private, with Israel only.  So here too, through the little book, the the narrative concerning the judgments becomes private.  It becomes known only to those who will be redeemed.  We have already seen those as being represented in the figure of the 144,000 formed from the 12 tribes of Israel.  Just as the safety of the Passover Lamb was revealed at this point privately to Israel, as an interlude in the narrative of the judgments, in the record of the redemption from Egypt, so there is a safety for the 144,000 in this last judgment, who are sealed in their minds with the seal Mashiach, of the prophecy of G-d and of the Name of G-d, Revelation 3:12.


We will see therefore that the secret of the final redemption of Israel from out of the nations, which allows for the return of Yehoshua, will be revealed in this chapter.  For background, read, Psalms 118:26 and Matthew 23:39.

As the Angel of The Name was associated in the Exodus with the the cloud of the Shekinah, so here this angel is associated with the heavenly cloud.  The rainbow appears as an halo.  The promise of the covenant of G-d was first made with Noah.  With Noah it was a promise of a promise.  It was only a promise that G-d's judgment upon the world would be mitigated.  The salvation of Noah and his family with the animals in the ark was itself a measured judgment, a mitigation of judgment.  The rainbow would signify a covenant of G-d that the salvation of Noah would not be in vain.  In the final judgment at the end of days there would not wash away all life from the earth.  There would be something saved, something redeemed.  The judgment would be mitigated.  This was the significance of the rainbow.
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* These are six sins against the seven aspects of the universal commandment given to all nations to obey their Creator.  See, Seven Laws With Seven Thunders.  The seventh sin, the sin of failing to practice justice will soon also be indicated when it is shown that instead of taking the responsibility to practice justice, as required explicitly of  all families saved with Noah from the Flood, the nations agree together to submit openly and formally to the rule of Lucifer and an actor, who acts the role of the Messiah, as it is written:

John 5:43I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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The Notes of The Eternal Song

How Do We Find the Good Point in the Other Person or in Ourselves?

When we find that point in others or in ourselves for which we must seek, we are translating a person from the scale of being unlike G-d to the scale of being like G-d, for G-d alone is good, and He made us to be like Him and wants us to become like Him, to be good in His reflection. We receive this teaching from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.  It is the teaching called Azamra, which can be translated from Hebrew as, "I will sing!" Continue Reading...

The Way of Love Is Prepared

God designed you to think together with Him in love.  Why would you desire to think any other way?  God designed you to walk together with Him in love.  Why would you desire to walk any other way?

God did not design you to be alone.  He made all people everywhere to be of one blood.  The soul of life which God created is in the blood.  All people were made to be together, together with God, to think with God, to walk with God, to be born, to live, to practice love with one another with God and not to die.

Why would we desire to go it alone without God, so that when we fail and fall not be able to rise up again?  Why would we desire to only trust ourselves, our own eyes, our own sense of touch and testing, our own consciousness, and others only so long as they continue to prove themselves to us?  Why would we desire to become lost to God, so that we cannot even always know for sure if there is a God who loves us?  If we now live in a world full of accidents, where an accident could happen at any time that has the potential even to destroy our homes and our lives, is this because the greatest power in the universe is the power of cold and heartless chance, or is it because we have chosen not to think with or walk with or know the God of love?

Love will not force you to love but if you choose another way to think than love, another way to live than love, love will remain love and will suffer a long time waiting for you to return, enduring all things necessary in order to open all possible ways for you to return.  God did not design you to die but to learn life with Him in love.  For this reason God called Abraham out from among all people and promised him and his offspring blessing and life in the midst of a world breaking apart through accidents and death.  God gave His word to Abraham.

The promise of redemption and recovery, the promise of the blessing of the God of love will be kept for all Humantiy.  The way is prepared.  The way of the God of love is in the world.  We can find it.

Exodus Judgements and Revelation Judgements No. 3

This is a continuation of posts on the relationship of the judgements in Exodus and The Book of The Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach - 
which began on – August 8th 2011.  If you begin there it will lead you back here, or -
Link to Critical Short Background Studies for this series.


When G-d Marks The Difference Between Two Firstborn

Exodus 9:15-16 with Exodus 9:26-31 and with Exodus 10:1-2 and Exodus 10:12-15 as the background key to Revelation 10:7.  The summary is in Revelation 11:14.  The Redemption began in Revelation 11:13.


The point of differentiation between Israel and Egypt made by G-d in the judgements upon Egypt is the point at which Israel's redemption from Egypt starts to take actual effect. This point of differentiation is the point that marks the differentiation of the true G-d from all false gods.  And this is the point that marks the differentiation of the true Messiah from all false Messiah's.  It is not immediately seen in the judgements of G-d upon Egypt that it is the true Messiah, the Anointed One of Israel who is being revealed, but it will be seen.

In the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach this will be clearly seen.  When the prophecy of that book comes fully to pass Israel's full and final redemption will have been accomplished and revealed in the world, and this revelation will be the salvation of the world.

The point of differentiation between Israel and Egypt made by G-d in the judgements upon Egypt is the point between the judgements of the hail and the locusts.  In this judgement the early crops are completely destroyed by the hail, while the later crops are not ready "to be completely destroyed" at that time and are left for the judgement of the locusts, when they are also then fully destroyed.  This has many deep elements and aspects, but laid open right upon the face of it is the stage of passing from the first judgements of warning, where repentance is still possible for Pharaoh, to the final judgements of revelation.  This is the two stages of the judgements in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel, the first stage of the measured judgements of the Trumpets and the final stage of the bowls (or vials) of judgement.


Indeed, there is a theology of replacement in the Bible but it is not that which those who would seek to replace Israel with another people have understood.  It is the replacement of Adam as the firstborn, the one to inherit from G-d the Father, with the Son of Adam, the Anointed One of Israel, as the firstborn, the one to inherit from G-d the Father, for the sake of all creatures.  This is the differentiation which God began to make, when He represented He began to show His will and His salvation, by announcing to Moshe before the judgement of the locusts that He would Himself harden Pharaoh's heart.  Under such great hardships as were to come Pharaoh would have his own reasons for wanting to give up and let Israel go.  G-d, however, had a purpose in the Exodus that ultimately extended to the end of all time.  It was His purpose to show that he was making a difference between the nature of corporate Humanity as extending from the root of the first Adam and corporate Humanity as extending from the root of the last Adam, the Son of Adam.  This distinction would finally be shown through the firstborn of Egypt being killed and the firstborn of Israel being saved through the blood of the Passover Lamb.


In the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel it is the Lamb who was slain, who has the authority to open the seals which unlock the hour of the judgements upon the nations of the world that will finally end with the complete redemption of Israel and the complete salvation of Humanity through this redemption.  This is a revelation that has been concealed in plain sight.  The redemption of Israel that is taking place is no less in plain sight than the redemption of Israel from Egypt  that took place in the beginning was in plain sight for Pharaoh to see – yet he was unable to see it until it was already fully accomplished.

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Interlude In The Study On The Exodus-Revelation Series

Before we continue with unfolding the correspondence between the Redemption of Israel through the judgements which came upon Egypt and the final redemption of Israel from among the nations revealed in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel and the judgements revealed in that book, you might want to read this post:

Mashiach the Willow Tree

Understanding the relationship of Mashiach's soul to Adam's soul is foundational to understanding the redemption of Israel and through the redemption of Israel the redemption of all Humanity, corporate Adam.

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The Meaning of Twelve and The Blessings for the Tribes No. 5

The Sealing of The Tribe of Dan and The Mystery of The Chariot

An Emblem of the Tribe of Dan

In the spirit of Ramban's comments (see previous posts) about the impossibility that Moshe would not bless the tribe of Simeon we can state that it is likewise impossible that Dan would not be sealed with the name of Hashem along with the other tribes.  There is a question as to what the sealing of the tribes actually means, and we will return to that question.  First we will look at the question of why Dan is not named here as one of the tribes.

Following the observations of Ramban we can begin by saying that it is necessary that there is always twelve tribes listed and this is followed everywhere in the Bible.  The first thing we must ask, then, is not why Dan is missing from the list given here but why Levi is included.

The list that is given here directly reflects the arrangement of the camp of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness, where we see now the full prophetic picture of the camp of Israel revealed.  It is not only a picture of a camp of twelve tribes, with three tribes in each of the four directions, it is a picture of the whole with the measure of complete communication within itself.  That is to say, the twelve tribes times the twelve channels of communication between all the tribes.  This is the measurement which forms the basis for the living city of Jerusalem to come, and is the reason for the names of the tribes and of the twelve messianic emissaries to the twelve tribes being associated with the foundation of the living Temple.

The four directions of spatial limitation mark the distinction between the Creator, who has no limitation, and the Creation.  The arrangement of the camp of Israel marks the nature of the relationship of the Creator with His Creation.  For when the Presence of the Creator moves the camp moves with the Presence.  When Israel walks in the Spirit it does not follow the evil inclination.  When the Presence of the Creator rests the camp of Israel rests.  In order to complete this calling of being, as it were, the chariot of the Presence of God, the tribes of Israel must be in perfect unity.

At the centre of each camp, East, South, West and North, there is one tribe and to the right and to the left of this tribe there is another tribe.  The tribe that is to the south of East is in dialogue with the tribe which is to the east of South, etc.  All tribes must be in perfect communication and unity with all the other tribes, as well as possessing internal unity themselves in order for Israel to follow or "carry" the Presence of God on the journey through the wilderness, moving in perfect order and resting in perfect order.  "Carrying" the Presence of God through all of time and history the degree of communication and unity must be on a much higher level.  This is the level indicated in Revelation chapter 7 by the number 12x12.  Every individual has a role and a position of walking in the Spirit, of following the Shekinah, not for themselves as an individual, but for the complete body of Israel.  Every possible position in relation to the four directions is covered and every possible line of communication between every possible position is covered, all in perfection of unity.

But in the wilderness Levi was not positioned in one of these four directions but was encamped in the very centre.  In this sense, it was Levi who was invisible in the arrangement.  Joseph had been made two tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, for this purpose, in order that Israel might remain twelve when Levi became invisible in the centre.  Why did this occur?  Because Jacob saw that in the future the position of the firstborn in Israel would be lost and Levi would come to fill in for the firstborn.  Here now, in the   Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel we see that Levi has come, in this picture of the chariot of the Presence of God, to be listed with all the other tribes.

This means that atonement has been made for the sin of the firstborn of Israel and the position at the centre can now be once again taken by the camp of the firstborn.  Still here in Revelation chapter 7 the full revelation of Mashiach to the world and the complete return of the Shekinah to Israel in the New Jerusalem has not yet come about, therefore, the final and eternal atonement that has been made for the firstborn in Israel is made known only to those who receive the seal of the name of the God of Israel in their forehead.  However, this atonement is indicated even to the world as a whole by Levi taking a position in marking the measure of the four directions along with the other tribes.  Where then is Dan?

By the same testimony it is indicated that all of the tribes have been made equally holy and have been all equally forgiven before God, so that they might, in the heavenly assembly, take by rotation the same position that Levi took in Levi's faithful witness to the promise of the atonement to come, at the centre of the tribes, where they are invisible to the count of the twelve tribes.  This, here, in revelation, is where the tribe of Dan is to be found.  The tribe at the centre must be sealed in their foreheads with the name of the God of Israel no less than the other tribes, but cannot be seen to be so by John because John is being shown the dimensions of the chariot of the Presence of the God of Israel moving through time to the closing of history.  Ephraim and Manasseh remain represented because the final stage of the revelation of the Mashiach is not yet come.  Ephraim is called Joseph because within this chariot of God which is the completely unified tribes of Israel the Mashiach is fully revealed.  At that time when he reigns upon the earth when the chariot is to be shown and seen from the angle of the history of redemption the tribes will openly rotate to the centre as they do in this measure of 12x12, and when the chariot is to be shown and seen from the angel of the future of the new creation Ephraim and Manasseh will both be measured together as Joseph and Mashiach will be seen to stand alone with the Shekinah at the centre of the camp of Israel.

Having begun to unfold this chapter and the sealing of the servants of God, it will now be possible for us to go on (to where we left off in previous posts) to the study of the relationship of the judgements in Egypt and the judgements upon all nations as given here in the Revelation of the Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel.

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Proceed Directly To the first post in the primary series on Exodus-Revelation by linking here:  The First Seven Judgements In Exodus

This has been the final post in the sub-series on the sealing of the Tribe of Dan.  In this sub-series the concept has been introduced in another way that the redemption of Israel is the true theme of the revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach and of the book by that name. Specifically, this redemption is the redemption of the firstborn and the right of the firstborn.

Adam was legally considered the firstborn of G-d by virtue of being first in creation.  See for example the genealogy of Yehoshua in the Book of Luke.  It is in the redemption of the firstborn in Israel that the sin of Adam is corporately rectified.  G-d willing, I will unfold this teaching from the book of Hebrews and from here in the Book of Revelation more extensively as we go along.

This sub-series has been written in support of the primary series on the relationship of the judgements in Exodus and the judgements in Revelation because the key to that study is the unfolding of the redemption of the firstborn in both books - and how the one book is the key to the other.

If you have been reading through these posts systematically and have already read the first two posts in the major Exodus-Revelation series, you will want to proceed from here to the next post in that series, the 3rd, here:  G-d Marks The Difference Between Two Firstborn

However, if you haven't read it, you may want to read this important interlude post first as an extended background study which I have provided for this series:  New Post on Mashiach Our soul.  (You will be able to link back to this series from there.)


Or you may not have read these studies in a systematic way and want to go to the beginning of the series and work your way back here by reading all the studies in order, following the links provided.  You may do that by linking from here:  Redemption Judgments