Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Revelation 10:1-2


Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, robed in a cloud, with a [halo like a] rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, and his feet (legs) were like columns of fire.
  • In prophecy an angel often times represents a mighty message.
  • We see again, as we have so many times before in Revelation,  that the message comes from Heaven.
  • John the Baptist said that a man can claim nothing coming first from himself.
  • John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] John 3:27
  • All of God’s Truth is first inspired by the Holy Spirit, 2 Timothy 3:16.
  • The message of the end times is clothed in God’s glory, thus the cloud.
  • Rainbow in prophecy represents a covenant, Genesis 9:13. 
  • The Sun is Light, Truth, powerful, Jesus.
  • The legs are fire represent the Holy Spirit. Our message of Truth and our testimony of our Covenant is founded on the power of the Holy Spirit. Our message of Truth and love is securely founded on the Rock Jesus.
  • John is shown once again the mighty message of salvation that will illuminate the whole world.
  • Remember that the one sign of Jesus' return is the Gospel of the Kingdom being preached to every nation, tribe, and tongue.
He had a little book (scroll) open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,
  • Scroll represents a message.
  • This message is small, that is why we are shown a little book. The message of Salvation is simple, its Jesus is our Savior. It's not a lengthy message or a complicated one.
  • The message is for everyone, that is why the angel is standing on the sea and the land. So whether we are called to live in the cities or the wilderness, we will be used to preach the Gospel of our Kingdom to the world.
  • The message is open, it's not hidden. During the last days our Father will pour out His Spirit on all men.
  • And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: Acts 2:17
  • John is taken back here to the beginning of the prophecy, the beginning of the end times. Remember that the Book of Revelation is not written chronologically. John is shown the events of the end times in their entirety and so he is repeatedly taken back to be shown another aspect of the events of the last three and a half years of this earth’s history.
  • Once again John is shown by Jesus that this angel, or powerful message, comes from Heaven. John is repeatedly shown that every aspect of the Great Tribulation is being orchestrated by our Father. This Truth should bring us great peace, because we are not appointed to our Father’s wrath, but to His righteousness,1 Thessalonians 5:9. We have been sealed and empowered for this time with all of the faith, hope, love, wisdom, and power of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Ephesians 4:30! 
  • Notice here too, that the angel has a halo, which appears to be like a rainbow over his head. This is a sign to the saved, a sign that we are not under any condemnation from our Father. Roman's 8:1 is eternal, there is now therefore no condemnation, and there never will be any condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus. So there is no condemnation for us during the Great Tribulation. Just as the rainbow was a sign to the world after the flood, this is a sign to the Bride of Christ, who will be here during this time in History.
  • The scroll, or the great and powerful message, that the angel has effects a lot of people, this is why his right foot is on the sea, the populated regions of the world, and his left foot is on the land, the wildernesses of the world. The angel is clothed in a cloud, because His message is glorious, it is from our Father. 
  • The message that the scroll contains is also powerful, it’s filled with the power of our Father. This is why the angels face shines like the sun, just as Stephen’s face shined as the sun. The angel’s leg’s are like a column of fire, the power of the Holy Spirit is what this angel stands on. 
  • This message is glorious and it is powerful and it will fill the earth. Jesus told the disciples that the one sign of His return was going to be that the Gospel of the Kingdom was going to be preached to every nation, tongue, and tribe, Matthew 24:14. John is being shown this Truth here in his vision, the message is powerful and full of glory and it covers the entire world. This part of John’s vision ties right in with Revelation 8:2-4, when the angel of our Father pours fire, which is the power of the Holy Spirit, out upon the believers in the world. Repeatedly John is shown how powerfully the body of Christ will be used by our Father to preach the Gospel during these three and a half years.   
  • The Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached during this time with power and demonstration of the Spirit and our Father will preach it through His children as it has never been preached before, regardless of if we are in populated areas or the wilderness we will be used to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom. The entire world will hear and see the power of our Father flowing through His chosen ones. There will be no denying that the glory and power is from the Holy Spirit operating through the children of God. 

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