THE BOOK OF REVELATION HAS MANY MYSTERIES, BUT ONE IS MORE EXCITING THAN THE OTHERS. This Is The Sounding Of A Certain Trumpet Which Presumably Will Be Heard Over The Earth. When this begins to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets (Revelation 10:7).

 

Happy Riches  

answers the question:

When is the fulfillment of Revelation 10:7 due in your opinion?

Instead of proffering my opinion, I can point out what the Bible states, which clearly points out when this event, to which Christians look forward, will occur.

• But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:7)

When Moses was given the plan and purpose of God, there were many prophetic elements incorporated in the typology found within the laws and the priestly structure of worship. For instance, there were three sanctuaries: the outer, the holy, and the most holy. In the book of Hebrews when speaking of the holy sanctuary and the holiest sanctuary, we are informed that the the holy sanctuary was symbolic of the present age. This implies that the outer sanctuary, which was outside the tents, was symbolic for the time from Moses until Pentecost. The innermost sanctuary (Holy of Holies) prophetically indicates the 1000 year reign of Lord Jesus Christ on Earth.

• By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary is not yet opened as long as the outer tent is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). (Hebrews 9:8-9)

The inner sanctuary that was in the outer tent was where the priests were permitted to do service unto the Lord. Similarly, today, whoever is baptized in the Holy Spirit becomes a priest in service to God, providing each one does God’s will and does not spurn the Spirit of Grace. The inner tent refers to the time when Jesus returns and peace reigns on Earth.

The seven feasts were divided into those that occurred with early rain and those that occurred at the time of the latter rain. The feast of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits and Pentecost have all been identified in the New Testament as having been fulfilled. This leaves three feasts to be fulfilled: the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacle.

• You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts…..who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3.3–5)
• Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses’ face because of its brightness, fading as this was, will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater splendor? (2 Corinthians 3.7–8)
  
• And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3.18)
• Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4-5)
• that He might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:27)

The feasts of the early rain fell while the dispensation of death was still in effect, the dispensation of life began at the Feast of Pentecost, which was the beginning of the Church Age, when the baptism of the Holy Spirit was first bestowed upon believers. These feasts were done in accordance with the requirement of the written code.

The feasts of the Latter Rain are not under the written code but under the new dispensation of the Spirit. The temple is not a tent nor one made of stones at Jerusalem. The Temple of the Lord is made up of living stones. This new temple is one that is invisible to the world, but watched over by Lord Jesus Christ, as He looks at our hearts. For when the new temple, now known as the Church is to be revealed to the world, there will be no spot (sin), no wrinkle (because all will have joy), and no blemish (because each living stone will be perfect), for all will be totally filled with the Holy Spirit and separated from any stain of worldliness.

• But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only….Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. (Matthew 24:36–44)
• According to the number of the days forty days, for every day a year (Numbers 14:34)
• ….forty days I assign you, a day for each year. (Ezekiel 4:6)

When the Feast of Trumpets occurs, this is unknown, because the hour or day has always required priests to be on watch to declare when it starts. But when the seventh month starts, 10 days later is the Day of Atonement. Count 4 days after this, the Feast of Tabernacles begins for 8 days. In all this is a 22 day period. However, since this is the dispensation of the Spirit, the days (more than likely, years) in which the Church is prepared for the return of Lord Jesus Christ, culminate when He begins to rule on Earth.

On the day that the Feast of the Trumpets occurs, there were two trumpets blown to call the people to assemble before the Lord for the month of festivity when the greater harvest of fruit for the year was gathered. What these trumpets represent is a matter of understanding the symbols. But you can expect them to, at least, represent the law and the prophets; a call to repentance from sin (the Law) and the reason to exercise faith in God (the prophets telling of his coming). Expect a massive move of God to begin to go throughout the world with a message of repentance and faith in Lord Jesus Christ, beginning with the Feast of Trumpets.

• Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!” And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. (Revelation 6:1–2)

The Day of the Seventh Trumpet will occur after the other six trumpets have been blown. Before that the seven seals have to be opened. The first seal speaks of He who rides on the white horse with a message that says, “Come to the Living Cornerstone!.” The white horse represents more than the strength of man. The bow represents the ability to pierce hearts. The crown represents someone who has conquered sin. Therefore, when the first of the seven seals is opened, in all probability the Feast of Trumpets will begin. At least, this is what is indicated in the Bible, even if you have not realized this before.

The Whole Of Creation Is Awaiting The Revealing of The Sons of God

THE FRUITS OF SALVATION ARE OVERLOOKED BY TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS. Consequently, Not Being Victorious In Walking The Righteous Path That Has Been Made For Them To Travel, Christians Suffer Unnecessarily. Knowledge Of God's Existence Is The Beginning Of Possibility. Experience is the realization of the reality of God's existence in your life. The fruit of this experience becomes the delight of your daily experience if you are among those who are known as blessed.

 

The Four Fruits of Salvation

THE BOOK OF REVELATION HAS OBSCURE AND HIDDEN MEANINGS THAT NEED DISCERNMENT WHEN IT COMES TO INTERPRETATION AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY MEAN. Many Vainly Attempt To Interpret The Symbols And Time Frame Of This Book, Arriving At Different Views. When it comes to the seals mentioned in the book, this is no different and various contradictory interpretations exist; knowing which one is correct is a puzzle in itself.

Are the seven seals of the apocalypse after the rapture or before? Pastors say everywhere that the seals come after the rapture, but scholars and theologians say that we endure the seals?

Happy Riches answers

Your claim depends who the scholars and the theologians are saying that we endure the seals. Not all pastors have the same view either. Often pastors repeat what the different scholars and theologians teach at the seminary they obtained their degrees. Not all scholars agree and not all theologians agree.

Disagreements exist over the date the book of Revelation was written. This puts scholars at variance with one another. Theologians rely upon scholars and they are at variance. Then there is the matter of hermeneutics—interpretation of Scripture.

The book of Revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ. If anybody sees it as anything else, then they are disregarding the first statement that has been made. If anybody interprets this book without understanding why this book of prophecy is the revelation of Jesus Christ, then they are speaking not from the Spirit of God but from their own fantasy.

Those are strong words, but the truth is solid. The book of Revelation of Jesus Christ is also a prophecy. Now prophecies are not about past events, yet many people have a habit of quoting the book of Revelation to refer to past events. This automatically disqualifies them as speaking the truth. Since when has prophecy been about events in the past. I earned a doctorate; a past event—so what. Unless a person has understood the way to life is by growing in experiential truth, then the person is talking theory, just as the future is theoretical until proven.

Gamaliel taught Saul. Gamaliel was considered one of the greatest theologians the Jews ever had. Evidently, Gamaliel did not know the first truth about salvation or the Son of God. His star pupil was intent on killing those for whom the Son of God died. Doesn’t say much for Gamaliel and his theological understanding, or his intellectual prowess—yet people seem to marvel at this exalted rabbi, because he said that if God is in a thing we cannot stop it, but if he is not, the thing will fizzle out.

• The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near. (Revelation 1:1-3)

Many people think that because this is about what must soon take place, the book was written before the fall of Jerusalem. The word “soon” could not mean 2000 years or more, not even 200 years; it has to mean 20 years or less. On the surface this sounds reasonable.

"Take place soon" can refer to different time frames for different individuals, depending on their frame of reference. To a geriatric adult, "soon" may mean anytime up to five years away. A thirty year old may think "soon" could be one year. A child hears "soon" and is thinking in terms of five minutes. The Son of God could view "soon" as meaning 4000 years of our time. You may think not. People say 20 years is soon in respect to the date of the Revelation being given and the destruction of Jerusalem, yet 10 years is difficult to consider as coming soon.

In Deuteronomy, just as soon as the Israelites began to possess the Promised Land, they were told they would "soon" be utterly destroyed.

• I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land where unto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. (Deuteronomy 4:26)

Is this utter destruction a reference to the Assyrian invasion? Or the Babylonian invasion? Or AD 70, when Jerusalem was finally destroyed?

Whatever the case, in the above verse, "soon" appears to reference utter destruction that will occur sometime between 900 to 1600 years in the future, depending upon when you want to say that the prophecy was finally fulfilled.

Saying that the time is “near” presents us with much the same situation as we have discussed regarding “soon”. When God speaks of time, what is short to Him, can be very long to us. Our perspective is different to the Eternal One.

While the book of Revelation is a prophecy about what is to take place after it is published, it is also the Revelation of Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, the book is a prophecy of how Lord Jesus is going to reveal Himself to the world from that date, until the day of the Great White Throne Judgment and the New Creation. Being prophecy, none of what is in Revelation could have already happened. More to the point, even it if concerned events that were happening at the time of the prophecy, these were to be ongoing events

• Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4-5)
• But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9)

The Church Age began when the prophecy of a nation being born in one day was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, AD 31. This is a nation made up of living stones. A race of priests now form a nation of God’s own people. Through these people the revelation of Lord Jesus Christ is to be manifest in the world. If we recognize this, then we might be on the right track to realizing the truths of the book of Revelation, which have been hidden in symbolic form.

After having spent many years reading the beliefs of scholars and theologians in respect to their teachings from the Bible, I understand why the Church, which is meant to be victorious, is like a damp hessian sack attempting to smother the light of Christ. No wonder we read the words that Jesus Christ will spew a particular group of people out of His mouth, even though he stands at these people’s doors and knocks in the hope that they might recognize Him and desire to have fellowship with Him.

Just after prophesying about the lukewarm church that Jesus is going to spew out of His mouth, the prophet John is invited to Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after this (Revelation 4:1). Now that is an interesting play on words. John is caught up to Heaven. He sees worship being offered to God. He sees the Lamb of God with the seven seals.

The seven seals are broken and we are given symbols that need interpreting. Yet instead of Scripture interpreting Scripture, all these scholars, theologians and pastors begin using their imagination as they detail what they think might happen, drawing on the guesses of others, to support whatever they want to believe; whatever seems the most plausible to them or whatever endears them to the ears of their hearers.

When Scripture is used to interpret Scripture, there is no need to draw on the guesses of other people. Just use the Bible. But unless you understand the progressive revelation of Lord Jesus Christ throughout the Old Testament, how are you going to interpret the symbols in the New Testament. I suppose you can use your imagination. The trouble with using imagination is this does not lead you to the truth.

Codie

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What a genuine answer. Especially when you talk about the church, and Him spewing them out of his mouth. This is something, we as children of God, we have to be careful of. Out of the 7 churches, only one didn't mention him having something against them, which was the church in Philadelphia. The others he was there telling them to repent, and do better. I feel like you find this a lot in the world. That it's viral to study the Bible and know what it means to you, before you allow yourself to agree with others because they are supposed to know more.

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LITTLE CHILDREN WHO ARE NEVER BORN OR ARE STILLBORN? This Question Is Something Abortionists Do Not Give A Thought, Neither Do Those Who Are Anti-abortion And Believe The Death Of The Unborn Child Is Equivalent To Murder If Performed By A Human Being. What about the egg that is unfertilized when it dies? Is this murder to let the egg die? Is every egg a woman has meant to bring forth life? The truth is the egg cannot bring forth a living being unless it is fertilized by the sperm of the man. This act of two becoming one has much greater implications than people realize. Both the egg and the sperm come into existence, merge together to form what is biological life.

 This life is in the form of a biological fetus (the unborn) within an environment that is closed off from the world of personal awareness, individual consciousness and defined identity, designated and distinguished as a living person. 

Though not as much as when the unborn acquires the distinction of possessing personhood among those identified as living, people do wonder about the unborn and what happens to aborted fetuses. 

Do aborted fetuses become human beings in the true existence of eternity? 

Are children aborted in the womb to be found in Heaven?

 The Bible talks of us being wonderfully made in the womb:

 

 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.  (Psalm 139:14)

Marvelously, two cells (a spermatozoon and an ovum) become one cell (mystery of two becoming one) called a "zygote" that when fully developed becomes a baby to the joy of every loving mother and father.

 When we realize that there are so many functioning parts to a biological human being, it becomes obvious that this has not happened by chance. 

As a child, we may not know how we got here. As we grow older, we learn the truth about how we are the product of two cells coming together to form each one of us, as biological beings.

When it comes to learning the truth about our true constitution, that we are a body, a soul and a spirit with unconscious, subconscious and conscious aspects that impact our current existence, we realize that we are complex beings indeed.

There are many different views about when a "zygote" becomes a human being.  Many arguments exist. Is a fetus only human at the actual birth of a child, once the first breath is taken? Or at some stage from around six months to the birth?

Many people claim that as soon as a zygote has developed into a recognizable human in the womb, abortion becomes murder. 

Others say that aborticide is not murder if the forming baby is killed to save the mother.

Some point out that the reality is a human being consists of a spirit, a soul and a body. 

Are still born babies taken to Heaven and given a spirit?

If our Creator desired, He could create numerous Adams and Eves and give them all a spirit. Then there would be no need for the biological process of procreation.

However, our Creator decided that He would do something much different than what He had done before. 

Instead of creating spirit beings, our Heavenly Father decided He would create biological beings and provide them with spirits.

We read in the Bible that God made man in His image (male and female he made them) and gave them freewill. This way the human beings could be like God and choose to love one another, so they could appreciate each other and enjoy the delights of experiencing the procreation and raising children.

The original plan had to be salvaged because of Lucifer deciding to violate his relationship with God and challenging the authority of His Creator. Thus Lucifer brought sin to bear upon the planet Earth and caused a miscarriage of justice for those who were to be born into a world governed by sin and not righteousness.

The Lord God had to create a new plan to salvage the unexpected violation and challenge to Himself. Seriously, who would have thought anybody would have been so foolish to challenge his Creator?

So what happens to babies that are stillborn, miscarried or aborted?

Miscarriages, which are effectively natural abortions, are not considered murder. These are considered unfortunate events of nature. Miscarriages, nevertheless, occur because of sin.

What happens to incompletely developed children in the womb when a miscarriage occurs? 

The Creator of the Universe is capable of doing anything. God is capable of taking those children in the womb and allowing them to have a place in eternity, even though they were not born into this world. 

Consider the promise God gave to Abraham:

And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall be your heir.” And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:4-6)

 

Jacob was told that his descendants would be as the sand of the sea:

 But thou didst say, ‘I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. (Genesis 32:12)

 

Many people have scoffed at the idea that there are as many stars as sand grains in the sea, but now scientists are having to admit that the Bible is true. For we are told that there are trillions of stars in the Heavens, in fact even more stars than what there are grains of sand on Earth. 

Simon Driver, Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia spoke for scientists who had set out to answer the question of whether there are really as many stars in the Universe as there are grains of sand on Earth.

It may hurt your brain to think about it, but it seems that the answer is likely to be yes, or at least the numbers are roughly in the same ballpark.

 

When we add up the numbers of the Earth’s official population since the time of Abraham, who have decided to seek the truth so they can know the Son of God and secure eternal salvation, we appear to fall short by light years, if the number of descendants of Abraham are going to be in the trillions.

However, if we add every baby that was conceived, but never born, not to mention the many children who have been killed, we will probably find that there are trillions of children in Heaven already.

According to the United Nations there are an estimated 125,000 abortions every day. This does not take into account infanticides, stillborn babies, or miscarriages. 

For there is not one child guilty of sin, who has not intentionally sinned, so how much more are those children who died prematurely not guilty of sin before they had the opportunity to sin.

Once the number of people that God has predetermined to be saved has been reached, then it is all over as far as this world is concerned. 

Lord Jesus Christ shall appear and those who are alive, who are ready and waiting, they will be taken out of the judgment that is to fall on this Earth. 

Those who are alive and those who are raised from the dead will be given immortal bodies as they are raised to meet Lord Jesus in the clouds above. 

If you think that is too incredible, just think of how a cell can become a child and how much you do not know about the function of each child's genes. God is amazing!!! 

Why shouldn't we acknowledge the greatness of our Lord God? 

Praise ye the Lord!!!

Praise the Lord!

Praise God in his sanctuary;

    praise him in his mighty firmament!

Praise him for his mighty deeds;

    praise him according to his exceeding greatness!

Praise him with trumpet sound;

    praise him with lute and harp!

Praise him with timbrel and dance;

    praise him with strings and pipe!

Praise him with sounding cymbals;

    praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

 Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord! (Psalm 150 RSV)

Lord Jesus Christ Loves YOU.

Are there more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth?

The Trifid Nebula (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA)

Are there really more stars in our universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth?

It may hurt your brain to think about it, but it seems that the answer is likely to be yes, or at least the numbers are roughly in the same ballpark.

Astronomers actually set out to answer this question about a decade ago. It's a tricky problem to solve, but it's slightly easier if you throw in a couple of qualifiers — that we're talking about stars in the observable universe; and grains of sand on the entire planet, not just the beaches.

The scientists started by measuring the luminosity density of a section of the universe — this is a measurement of how much light is in that space.

They then used this measurement to estimate the number of stars required to create that amount of light. This was quite a mathematical challenge!

"You have to assume that you can have one type of star represent all types of stars," says astronomer Simon Driver, Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia and one of the scientists who worked on the question.

"Then let's assume, on average, this is a typical mass star that gives out the typical amount of light, so if I know that a portion of the universe is generating this amount of light, I can now say how many stars that would equate to."

Now equipped with an estimate of the number of stars within a section of the universe, the next challenge was to work out the size of the universe.

Given we know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old, we can assume that we exist in a sphere 13.8 billion light years in volume. But there's a catch: the universe is potentially infinite in size.

"We know that it has a finite age — we know it started 13.8 billion years ago — but spatially, in terms of its extent, it could be infinite," Driver says. However we also know that because of its age, we exist in a bubble within that infiniteness, and that bubble is called the 'observable' universe.

After all these calculations and caveats, Driver and colleagues came up with a figure of seven followed by 22 zeros, or 70 thousand million, million, million stars in the observable universe.

That's 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars!

So what about grains of sand on Earth?

"That was almost harder to work out than the number of stars," Driver says.

Luckily, someone suggested starting with the Sahara Desert, which is home to around half of all the grains of sand on Earth.

"That made it easier; I then just had to work out how many grains of sand are in the Sahara, and I didn't have to worry about every beach on the planet," Driver recalls.

He found the total size of the Sahara, the average depth of sand across the Sahara and from that was able to calculate the approximate number of grains of sand in the Sahara.

"Once I got all that I could put all those numbers together and got a number that was remarkably close to the figure for the number of stars, but just a little bit less," he says. "It was about a factor of 10 smaller, but there's easily a factor of 10 error in both of those estimates so it could just as easily be the other way around."

That's 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars versus 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand!

So even though it's an impossible question to answer definitively, it seems that the mind-bending possibility of so many stars existing in the universe is actually true.

Professor Simon Driver spoke with Bianca Nogrady

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