SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/10/2015
7:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Unusual
Answer
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation
10:4
Message of the
verses: “When the seven peals of
thunder had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up
the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken and do not write
them."”
Let us begin by going back and looking at Revelation 1:19
“"Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which
are, and the things which will take place after these things.” We see here what John’s job description was,
and these orders came from the Lord Jesus Christ so John was only doing his job
when he was about to write down what the seven peals of thunder had
spoken. However he then hears a voice
from heaven, and we have to wonder who’s voice from heaven he heard. Well it does not tell us whose voice was
speaking, but if I was to guess I would think that it was the Lord Jesus Christ
and the reason that I say this is because He is the one who gave John the
orders in Rev. 1:19. Now another thing
that is not revealed is that John was not given any reason not to write down
what the seven peals of thunder said. We
may as well not speculate on what the seven peals of thunder said for if God
would have wanted us to know what it was He would have had John record it.
Daniel had similar experiences with the visions that God
gave to him. "The vision of the
evenings and mornings Which has been told is true; But keep the vision secret,
For it pertains to many days in the future’ (Daniel 8:26).” Again let us look at Daniel’s writings “He
said, "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up
until the end time (Daniel 12:9).” Now
let us move to Paul’s experience as seen in 2 Corinthians 12:4 “was caught up
into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to
speak.” Now I want to go to one of my favorite
verses in the entire OT “"The secret things belong to the LORD our God,
but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe
all the words of this law (Deut. 29:29).
Let’s look at this same verse from the “Message” “GOD, our God, will take care of the hidden
things but the revealed things are our business. It’s up to us and our children
to attend to all the terms in this Revelation.”
Job 37:5 says “"God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great
things which we cannot comprehend.” The
words of what the seven peals of thunder fall into the category of what Job
37:5 says.
The word mystery is a very interesting word and so I want
us to look at it from the Greek/English dictionary that is on my Online Bible
Program. First I will give you the verse
that it comes from: “Ro 11:25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be
uninformed of this mystery-so that you will not be wise in your own
estimation-that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness
of the Gentiles has come in.”
“3466 μυστηριον musterion
moos-tay’-ree-on
from a derivative of muo
(to shut the mouth); TDNT-4:802,615; n n
AV-mystery 27; 27
1) hidden thing, secret,
mystery
1a) generally mysteries,
religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
1b) a hidden or secret
thing, not obvious to the understanding
1c) a hidden purpose or
counsel
1c1) secret will
1c1a) of men
1c1b) of God: the secret
counsels which govern God in dealing with the righteous, which are hidden from
ungodly and wicked men but plain to the godly
2) in rabbinic writings, it
denotes the mystic or hidden sense
2a) of an OT saying
2b) of an image or form
seen in a vision
2c) of a dream”
I believe that the “church” actually falls into the category
of being a “mystery” for it was not revealed in the OT but is in the NT.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: There are many
times in my life when I wish that God would reveal to me things that I would
like to know about, but then one of the things that I do is to look at
Deuteronomy 29:29 and realize that God does not have to tell me everything, but
the things He does tell me I must obey.
What this is all about is having faith that God loves me and will do the
best for me even if I don’t understand it.
My Steps of Faith for Today: My desire all of this year and I suppose for
all eternity is to love the Lord with all of my heart, soul, mind, and
strength, and to better understand the love that Christ has for me and live in
it.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Goliath” (1 Samuel 17:4).
Today’s Bible
question: “What is the last book in the
Bible?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/10/2015 8:23 AM
No comments:
Post a Comment