Lesson 12 - Revelation 4 & 5

[Music] [Music] because of the substantial volume of unfulfilled prophecy and the mystery that it contains revelation has to be the most challenging book in the New Testament if not the entire Holy Bible therefore I'm gonna endeavor to review the previous lesson to start the next and at other times sum up what we've heard and learned in order to kind of keep us on the most level ground that we can find we're gonna take some time to do that to begin today's discussion now chapter 4 that we started last week uh sure this into a new vision given by God to John the Apostle a Jew in exile on the Mediterranean island of Patmos and on this Roman prison island John had the vision not only of the letters of God's judgment upon seven believing congregations in Asia but he also received other visions that form all of what we read in the book of Revelation these seven were not the only believers assemblies in Asia at that time but they may have been the largest perhaps the best-known each of the seven were Jewish synagogues whereby the leadership and the members agreed that Yeshua of Nazareth Nazareth was indeed the Messiah the Messiah The Anointed One upon whom the Jewish people had waited for centuries many Gentiles had joined the Messianic movement by now but not without struggle as to just how these Gentiles considered unclean according to Jewish tradition could possibly be part of it how could they fit in with a mostly Jewish congregation without contaminating these devout Jews with their ritual impurity the matter had been addressed guidelines were put forth more than 40 years earlier than the writing of Revelation and that famous Jerusalem council meeting chaired by James the biological half-brother of Jesus attended by Paul the Apostle the leader of those who evangelize Gentiles and Jews who lived outside the Holy Land this was a settled issue should have been the time of John's visions was probably around the early 90s AD meaning it had been two decades since Rome had put down a Jewish rebellion by besieging Jerusalem destroying the temple most of the city killing thousands of Jewish citizens in Judea and in the Galilee John was the only remaining apostle of the original 12 and due to the horrendously traumatic destruction of the temple the scattered persecutions against believers in Christ and the continuing occupation of the Jewish national homeland by the Romans John believed as did Paul that the end times was upon them Yeshua was expected to return and rescue Israel and its people from its dismal situation at any moment this explains the extreme urgency to spread the good news their disdain for their own lives this was present among the Apostles the other Jewish evangelists of the mid 1st century AD it's a disdain that modern believers would do well to emulate as we too must assume that we are on the event horizon of the return of our Lord and Savior from his heavenly seat at the Father's right hand now just as Paul had been certain of it for decades earlier John was also certain that the end could not be more than a few months or maybe years away because of the fulfilled prophecies concerning the ruination of the temple and then what comes thereafter so it is for us that we can know for certain that the end cannot be too far ahead of us because of the fulfilled prophecies about the rebirth of Israel in but one day and the control of Jerusalem being rested away from Gentiles and return to the Jewish people in chapters 1 through 3 God's vision to John was about judging meaning evaluating the spiritual temperature and temperament within the seven specifically named assemblies in each case the Lord either pronounced his commendation upon that assembly or his condemnation of it or is in most of the letters it was a mixture of both these are neither made up stories they are not general metaphors about churches these were real believing congregations and the letters addressed to them we're meant to communicate God's assessment of them that said there are less to be universally learned in all eras by those who call you schewe Lord and Savior therefore we are to consider what God has to say as pertaining to ourselves as individuals and also as a corporate body that is the congregation that we bong to where it applies now perhaps one of the most difficult and bothersome outcomes from from studying the seven letters to the seven congregations is what we find out about the one who is narrating these letters to John and his vision it is that we never get his name we never get his position in the Godhead and while it's nearly universally insisted upon that this is Jesus Christ the divine figure himself never says so nor does John in fact beyond the immutable reality that the person narrating is the God of Israel John seems to remain somewhat perplexed over who this person is so rather than a name or a title we get this series of statements that describe this individual only by a set of attributes and characteristics that change letter to letter the problem is that while some of the attributes and characteristics indeed typify Christ others more typify the Father thus it's my position that while it is tempting to solve this dilemma by simply declaring that the divine narrator must be Jesus because that way the doctrines of several popular Christian denominations aren't harmed the material to this point leaves his precise identity a mystery therefore we too shall at least for now leave his identity a mystery as we engage the next recorded vision given to John well this next vision begins with the opening words of Revelation chapter 4 and it's important to grasp that we have essentially two ways to think about how to understand the order of John's visions the order of them either we are to assume that the order they are given to us within Revelation is the specific order in which john received them or the order they were received is not the same as the order john wrote them down and within the context of each of these two choices is the matter of whether the many events foretold within each vision unfold in precisely the order that it's spoken or is the order that it occurs not necessarily the point but rather it is only that all the listed events within that vision are certain to happen in some order or another most christian denominations have made their choices written those choices down in stone and declared them as part of their faith doctrines thus depending on the denomination the interpretation and the meaning of the many mysterious beings and events of Revelation are generally predetermined now we're going to take a different approach and we're gonna do our best to set aside our doctrinal filters and adding only the hindsight of history and of ancient language and culture reckon that the words of Revelation mean what they say and say what they mean and when things are unclear you know what some things may just remain on Claire this necessarily implies we're not going to be able to provide answers some of the intriguing mysteries that we wish we could however to me at times no answer is better than pure speculation or the employment of the human imagination because the the first way allows us to be open to interpreting current events within the confines of Scripture while the second way limits us to interpreting current events only within the boundaries of man-made doctrines and traditions we don't want to do that chapters four and five now work together probably they shouldn't even have been divided into two chapters they are part of the same vision they revolve around the same motif of the throne of God in heaven and whereas the prophecies of Ezekiel tend to play a large role in chapters one through three and still have a contributing role in Chapter four the prophecies of daniel now become dominant in revelation chapters four and five the heavenly throne room is the setting and the glory of both God and Christ are the emphasis what gets overlooked nearly universally among Christian commentators is this tight connection between God Yeshua and the throne room that is the heavenly temple that's presented by John and its earthly counterpart represented in the tribes of Israel the temple and the priesthood very closely associated in fact without recognizing that tight connection the interpretation of these passages has no choice but to raise - allegory we spoke specifically about that last time as John describes the appearing appearance of God as what it says it's like Jasper and carnelian sometimes called sardius with a rainbow of emerald surrouding surrounding the throne and it is true by the way looking in your complete Jewish Bible that it says diamonds and rubies but that is a poor translation it's neither warranted or does it agree with any other solid translation looking to the Torah we find that jasper is the symbol for the twelfth tribe of israel benjamin carnelian or sardius is the symbol for the first tribe of israel reuben and emerald is the symbol for the fourth tribe of Israel Judah from which came the Messiah these stones were arranged and placed in birth order on the breastplate of the high priest so that when he went before the Lord so did the twelve tribes of Israel symbolically now surrounding God's throne for 24 elders sitting on their own Thrones by default these can only be believers but they must also represent the 24 courses of priests and Levites who serve the Lord on earth at the temple in two-week increments Ezekiel chapter 44 tells us explicitly that Levites and priests from the line of sadoc will serve the Lord in the Millennial temple meaning of course they must be believers in Christ and therefore it forms a tight fit that in heaven these would be saved priests and levites in the book of Acts acts 6:7 we read so the Word of God continued to spread and the number of Talmud eeeem the disciples and yerushalayim increased rapidly and a large crowd of priests were becoming obedient to the faith therefore it was not rare but rather many priests and Levites became believers not long after Christ's death this is who the twenty-four elders were surrounding God's throne in heaven as it connects directly with reference to the tribes of Israel concerning the appearance of God as like precious stones which then directly relates to the tribal symbols finally we encountered these strange poor living creatures that guarded God's throne beings with faces like a man an ox and eagle and a lion this two forms a tight connection with the tribes of Israel we learned in Exodus that the twelve tribes camped around the wilderness Tabernacle in four assigned groups of three tribes each with each grouping have a Greek grouping having a designated leader tribal and in addition to the precious stones as tribal symbols each Israelite tribe also flew a banner that had sewn onto it a living breathing creature as its symbol and the four leader tribes symbols exactly match those of the faces of the four living creatures in heaven those of an ox a man and eagle and a lion let's finish up now with chapter 4 and get into chapter 5 open your Bibles to the book of Revelation chapter 4 and we're gonna read from verses eight to eleven eight to eleven if you have a complete Jewish Bible that is going to be on page fifteen thirty-seven starting at verse eight each of the four living beings had six wings and was covered with eyes inside and out and day and night they never stopped saying holy holy holy is Adonai god of heavens armies the one who was who is and who is coming and whenever the living beings give glory honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne to the one who lives for ever and ever the twenty-four elders fall down before the one sitting on the throne who lives forever and ever and worship Him they throw their crowns in front of the throne and say you are worthy I deny Allah he knew to have glory honor and power because you created all things yes because of your will they were created and came into being verse eight tells us that since the glory of God is the emphasis in heaven then it follows that praising him and worshiping him is the order of the day for those most closely surrounding his throne God is to be glorified because of his sovereignty and his holiness that is unmatched and it represents the very core and substance of his existence if we can even call it as such now we read from Genesis throughout the Old Testament and then regularly throughout the new that the function of God's creation is to proclaim his glory the trees the hills the stones the stars Sun and Moon every living creature that crawls swims flies walks all were created by Glatt by God to glorify Him as created sentient creatures that is especially the fundamental purpose of humanity but it is an even higher calling than the other creatures who operate mainly on instinct God has given humans a choice a free will that no other created thing or perhaps maybe than angels have the choice to love and glorify Him or not and so naturally when we get to heaven that will also be the purpose of the spirits and souls of everything and everyone that is present with God thus for a human being to not glorify God the God of the Bible that is rebellion of the worst sort and so that human is marked for eternal destruction and destruction since he or she refuses to serve his or her fundamental purpose for existing the words used by the four living beings to praise God are holy holy holy is odd oh my god heavens armies the one who was who isn't it who is coming this is taken directly from Isaiah 6:1 through 3 which is Isaiah's vision of God's throne that matches so closely with John's and starting with Isaiah 6:1 in the year of king uzziah's death I saw odd and I sitting on a high lofty throne and the hem of his robe filled the temple spraying meanings the beings that are around his throne each of them was six wings two covering his face two covering his feet to cover a two for flying they were crying out to each other more holy than the holiest holiness is Adonai saiva out the whole earth is filled with his glory now since this reference used by John is to this passage that I just read to you from Isaiah then it behooves us to understand it in the context that Isaiah gave it when in the complete Jewish Bible version the Seraphim cry out more holy than the holiest holiness that can also be legitimately and probably better translated as holy holy holy in other words holy repeated three times the object of that supreme holiness is said to be adonis ava oat the Lord of heavens hosts or heavens army however that is not quite complete either because the original language does not use the word Adonai it uses UDA Vevey jehovah therefore the proper translation is jehovah of heavens and of course Yehovah as always in the bible is the formal name of the father although admittedly it might impossible sometimes to speak of your home a is the sum of the Godhead therefore that is exactly how we are to take this in revelation 4 verse 8 the praise is being lavished upon God the Father perhaps you home a the Godhead who sits on the central throne in heaven now notice also how the characterization of God is as he who was who is and what is coming this matches with the same characterization as we read back in revelation 1:8 and it makes us scratch our heads about this is to come or is coming part since in nominal Christianity the person of God always his who is to come is Christ yet we put that to rest some time ago when we looked at Zechariah chapter 14 that specifically says that you have a is also coming and in fact when you have a steps foot on the Mount of Olives it splits in half under the weight of his immense holiness thus while with 100% certainty Yeshua our Messiah is coming back in some way the father or the entire Godhead is also coming to earth at the end times verse 10 then goes on to explain that whenever the four living beings sing out their praise to God it sets off the 24 elders who also give praise but with a slightly different pronouncement why do the elders pray as they do because they express that what makes God so worthy of praise is that the entire creation came about solely by God's will and because God's omniscience is just demonstrated by his creation I mean a wonderful application for modern believers is that we can be confident that everything that will ever happen to us personally everything that has ever happened in both recorded and unrecorded history plays a role in God's purposes whether it is from our abundance or our poverty from our joy or from our suffering let us always praise God because nothing he permits ever goes to waste he nor is it out of his control all is happening according to his plan and his plan focuses on the redemption and restoration of his creation let's move on to Revelation chapter 5 Revelation chapter 5 if you have a complete Jewish Bible as page 15 37 15 37 next I saw in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne a scroll was writing on both sides sealed with seven seals I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals but no one in heaven honors under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside of it night I cried and I cried because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside of it but one of the elders said to me don't cry look the Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David has won the right to open the scroll in its seven seals and then I saw standing there with the throne and the four living beings in the circle of the elders a lamb that appeared to have been slaughtered he had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven fold spirit of God sent out into all the earth and he came and he took the scroll out of the right hand of the one sitting on the throne and when he took the scroll the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of the lamb each one held a harp and gold bowls filled with pieces of incense which are the prayers of God's people and they sang a new song you are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals because you were slaughtered at the cost of blood you ransom for God persons from every tribe language people and nation you made them into a kingdom for God to rule Kohanim priests to serve him and they will rule over the earth and then I looked and I heard the sound of a vast number of angels thousands and thousands millions and millions they were all around the throne the living beings and the elders and they shouted out worthy is the slaughtered lamb to receive power riches wisdom strength honor glory and praise and I heard every creature in heaven on earth under the earth on the sea yes everything in them saying to the one sitting on the throne and to the lamb belongs praise honor glory and power forever and ever and the four of living being said amen and the elders fell down the worshiped hold who've been present for that now while chapter five is connected to chapter four and the two chapters really shouldn't even be divided chapter five does provide a kind of transition from the ideal perfection exhibited in heaven by the four living beings in the twenty-four elders and the glorious design of the throne and the throne room and the order and the sinless condition of all involved to the earthly realm with all of the chaos immorality suffering and pain rebellious nough sin humanity which has been the world order since Adam and Eve fell from grace but what we are also witness to from here forward is the inauguration of God's sovereignty in its fullest and frankly at its most awful over his creation in the end times this fallen world is about to suffer what has been foretold and threatened by the prophets for millennia God's judgment and then wrath that brings history to a close and also brings to an into reality manifest Redemption to a degree that mankind has never known so here in Chapter five begins that unavoidable process keyword is process that believers must at once dread and welcome a process with the happiest outcome but also one that may well cost us and those we love our physical lives prepared for that I said in an earlier lesson that when we we we back away we take this far view of the Bible what we find is that in the Old Testament God brought deliverance for those who were his own from oppression and death and suffering by means of defeating enemies and giving Israel's supernatural strength under the most miraculous conditions however in the New Testament upon the advent of Christ we find the deliverance for his people his believers from oppression and from suffering is often by means of our physical death the believers deliverance then is not from a life of misery and troubles on earth into a life of abundance and peace on earth rather it is that through our suffering and maybe our death which is bound to our faith in God and identifies with the sufferings of Christ that is how we will have a true and perfect life in paradise where peace and abundance abound for eternity one of my deep concerns among the church as we know it today is not only the false teaching of the prosperity doctrine but also the false teaching that in the end times those who trust Christ can expect to avoid discomfort and tribulation and death as is prophesied to be coming for all of us and habitants I'm not only speaking of when the rapture may occur but of all the destructive events that lead up to it it fascinates me how some believing people seem to actually be looking forward to the devastating events of the end times as they joyfully sing come Jesus come without seeming to realize that those two events arrive together you ready for that we are regularly told in the New Testament to be faithful even unto death this is not referring to dying peacefully in our sleep it is by no means that the New Testament glorifies death rather it is that because of Yahshua's death and resurrection that prefigures our own we need not fear it death is not the end for the believer it is but a transition to the heaven that we saw described for us in Revelation chapter 4 now I'm quite aware that some of this is not the message that most Christians want to hear Christians of the West especially have been conditioned to believe that salvation is a universal get-out-of-jail-free card trust in Christ and all our troubles are over have enough faith in that BMW in the house with the swimming pool that's as good as yours believe in Jesus go to church and before the big trouble that is somewhere ahead of us begins you're gonna be painlessly whisked away and you're gonna avoid it all that is a dangerous mindset because first of all it is not biblical and it is not true but second this is why so many seem to come to Christ only to fall away later they are sold a bill of goods they believe these false doctrines of men that are promised in God's name and then when trouble inevitably comes or perhaps when they aren't overwhelmed with the promised abundance of material pleasures they fall away because they think God has failed them do not let this happen to you do not let this happen to those you know believe the Word of God understand that our hope is in Christ and that the joy we can have in the midst of troubles here in this present life is because of our hope in Christ and for the glorious future that comes after he returns and sets up God's kingdom our hope is in Christ well verse 1 of chapter 5 continues what we are witnessing at the end of chapter 4 there is no break or pause in the action the one seated on the throne is the father and what is about to take place is but the fulfillment of the prophecy given to Daniel in Daniel chapter 7 so it's incumbent upon us to take the time to read the prophecy to see what John's alluding to that way we can get the picture so open your Bibles to Daniel chapter 7 Daniel chapter 7 if you have a complete Jewish Bible and is gonna be on page 11 oh nine Daniel chapter seven we're gonna read the whole chapter Daniel chapter seven page 1109 if you have a complete Jewish Bible here we go in the first year of Belshazzar king of bobble king of babylon daniel had a dream and visions in his head as he was lying on his bed and he wrote the dream down and this is his account I had a vision at night and I saw there before me the four winds of the sky breaking out over the Great Sea and the four huge animals came up out of the sea each different from the others the first was like a lion but it had eagle's wings and as I watched its wings were plucked off and I was lifted off the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man and a human heart was given to it then there was another animal a second one like a bear and it raised up raised itself up on one side and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth and it was told get up and gorge yourself with flesh and after this I looked there was another one like a leopard with four bird's wings on its sides the animal also had four heads and it was given power to rule and after this I looked in the in the night visions and there before me was a fourth animal dreadful horrible extremely strong with great iron teeth and it devoured and crushed and stamped its feet on what was left and it was different from all the animals that had gone before it it had ten horns now while I was considering the horns another horn sprang up among them a little one before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots in this horn were eyes like human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogantly and as I watched Thrones were set in place and the ancient one took his seat his clothing was white as snow the his head was like pure wool his throne was fiery flames with wheels of burning fire a stream of fire flowed from his presence thousands thousands ministered Monsieur ministered to him millions and millions stood before him then the court was convened and books were opened and I kept watching and then because of the arrogant words which the horn was speaking I watched as the animal was killed and his body was destroyed and was given over to be burned up completely now as for the other animals their rulership was taken away but their lives were prolonged for a time in a season I kept watching the night visions when I saw someone I saw coming with the clouds of heaven someone like a son of man and he approached the ancient one who was led into his presence to him was given rulership glory a kingdom so that all peoples and nations and languages should serve Him his rulership is an eternal rulership that will not pass away and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed now as for me Daniel my spirit deep within me was troubled and the visions in my head frightened me and as I approached one of those standing by and asked him what all this really meant he said that he would make me understand how to interpret these things these four huge animals are four kingdoms that will arise on earth but the Holy Ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever yes forever and ever then I wanted to know what the fourth beast meant the one that was different from all the others so very terrifying with iron teeth bronze nails which devoured in Christ and stamped its feet on what was left and what the ten horns on its head meant and the or the other horn which sprang up and before which three fell the horn that had the eyes and a mouth speaking arrogantly and it seemed greater the others and I watched and that horn made war with the Holy Ones and was winning till the ancient one came judgment was given in favor of the Holy Ones of the Most High and the time came for the Holy Ones to take over the kingdom this is what he said the fourth animal will be a fourth Kingdom on earth it will be different from all the other kingdoms it will devour the whole earth trample it down and crush it now as for the tenth of horns out of this kingdom 10 Kings will arise and yet another will arise after them now he'll be different from the earlier ones he will put down three kings he will speak words against the Most High he will try to exhaust the Holy Ones of the Most High he will attempt to alter the seasons in the law and the Holy Ones will be handed over to him for a time times and half a time but when the court goes into session he will be stripped of his rulership which will be consumed and completely destroyed then the kingdom and the rulership and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the holy people of the Most High their kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all rulers will serve and obey them this is the end of the account as for me Daniel my thoughts frightened me so much I turned pale but I kept the matter to myself in Daniel 7 13 through 15 he explains that he sees in his vision who won like a son of man approaching the ancient one and that the son of man was given rulership and a kingdom by the ancient one and that his rulership would never pass away now this along with the rest of the vision gave Daniel Daniel a sizable headache I mean it just troubled him so deeply not just because it was so frightening because he couldn't make sense of it well here in Revelation chapter 5 john is attaching the identity of the person who is the one like the Son of Man in Daniel to the Lamb who appears to have been slaughtered John says that Lamb that's not the one that's the one like the Son of Man in Daniel chapter 7 they're one in the same so while Daniel had no concept of who this one like a son of man is John identifies him as the Messiah mystery solved I'm gonna repeat so that we can get the players and John's vision properly labeled ok the ancient one in Daniel chapter 7 is the one sitting on the throne in Revelation 5 the one like a son of man and Daniel 7 is the Lamb that appears to have been slaughtered in Revelation chapter 5 we know from the Old Testament that the ancient one is God the Father and we know from several descriptions of Messiah and earlier passages of the New Testament and from Old Testament prophecies that the lamb is Yeshua the Son of God so the father is sitting on his heavenly throne with a scroll in his right hand and the scroll was written upon on both sides of the paper further the document was sealed with seven seals not just one seven seals now although the complete Jewish Bible and other Bible versions refer to the document as a scroll it may have been a book the Greek word being translated as bibley on all right and it refers to just writing material thus it could be in almost any form it actually seems more logical it's a book because by this time books were in more use than scrolls be that as it may part of the reason that Bible scholars even debate what seems to be a small point whether it's a book or scroll is because of those seven seals those we're gonna read later after each seal is broken some of what is written in that document is revealed but how if a scroll has seven seals how is it that someone can view any of its contents until all seven of them are broken after all only one seal is sufficient enough to keep the contents of this scroll completely sealed up therefore some think it's a book with a certain amount of page is sealed by one seal then another certain amount of pages sealed by another sealed and so on such that the opening of each seal can reveal the contents of additional pages in Daniel 12:4 Daniel is given this instruction by God but you Daniel keep these words secret and seal up the book until the time of the end many will rush here and there as knowledge increases so when we hear seal up the book until the time of the end we realize that what John sees happening is this sealed up book that's mentioned in Daniel it's about to be opened mysteries that were known to Daniel mysteries he was not allowed to share are about to be revealed saying that Daniel should seal up this book is referring to placing a seal on the book so that no one can gain the knowledge of its contents and we see from revelation 5 that in fact seven seals were placed on this book now we should also note that even though as we said a revelation that feels as though we're the first to get a peek into it and learn what awaits humankind at the end in fact God revealed it all in the late first century to John so this same information that we're studying right now has been available to believers for 1,900 years but even more since Daniel was told that this book was not to be unsealed until the time of the end and in John's day the book was unsealed well then you can imagine why John and the first readers of the book of Revelation had to assume that they were indeed living at the time at the end wouldn't you as we now know however John's day was not the end there for what God must have intended by telling Daniel to seal up the book until the time of the end more meant when the events foretold within the book actually begin to happen rather than when the contents of what was in the was merely revealed so it's a two-step process first the unveiling of the contents then later the actual carrying out of what the contents reveal now because seven is a sacred an ideal number and it's regularly associated with the work of the divine then it's appropriate that this book or scroll would have seven seals on it because the book is kept by God and where does it exist in heaven but it also applies to the fact that the book reveals seven judgments one for each seal that's broken so next an angel appears and shouts out who is worthy to open the scroll of break in seals notice that it is not a matter of who's able it's who's worthy there's only one person who's worthy yeshua because you see he's worthy because it his willingness to go to the cross and then his subsequent subsequent resurrection all fulfillments Old Testament prophecy that's what merits him his worthiness now there's an interesting backdrop that adds to the reason that only issue ax was worthy to open the scroll interestingly it occurs in Genesis 1 there we read in verses 26 through 28 then God said let us make humankind and our image in the likeness of ourselves and let them rule over the fish in the sea the birds in the air the animals and over all the earth and over every creature that crawls on the earth so God created humankind in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created them God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful multiply fill the earth and subdue it rule over the fish in the sea the birds in the air and every living creature the cross on the earth so Adam was given rule over the earth but to me threw away his opportunity to act upon it when he was deceived by Satan and he rebelled against God Yeshua rescued that divine promise for mankind to have dominion over the earth the promise had been given to a man so a man had to be the one to open the seals of the book and appropriate what God had promised to a man Adam which means man however because we've all descended from Adam we have all inherited his sin which deprives us of the right to rule over the Dominion that God intended for us how to solve this dilemma well God sent his son to be born in sinless human form to suffer the punishment and provide atonement for the sins of mankind Christ did not back down from this duty and in doing so became the only one worthy to redeem God's people and to execute judgment and redemption upon planet Earth thus Messiah Yeshua will rule over the earth and over God's kingdom forever and he is most worthy to do so we'll continue chapter 5 next time [Music] you see [Music] you

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