And this gospel of the kingdom shallbe preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Matthew 24:14
Fellow Believers,

    In Revelation 10, the Apostle John saw in a vision the Lord Jesus coming down from heaven and writes in verses 2 and 3, "he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices."

    Such is language of the Lord coming to judge. For example, "Behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth... For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel" (Micah 1:3,5); "The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion" (Prov. 19:12); and "The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook" (Psa. 77:18).

    When the seven thunders had uttered their voices, John was told to seal up those things and write them not. In other words, God does not want the meaning of the little book revealed until the proper time. The context makes it clear, though, that it has to do with events unfolding after the final tribulation period has begun.

    In verse 9 God says to John, "Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey." John did find it so. When Ezekiel was commissioned to give Israel its last warning, he too was given a book to eat. And he also said, "Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness" (3:3). But when he learned that Israel was not going to heed his warning, he cried, "I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit" (v. 14). Those of us who still have unsaved loved ones can all relate to this inner bitterness in these end-time days.

    Coming back to Revelation 10, God told John after giving him the book to eat, "Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings" (v. 11). In light of what has been happening to Family Radio (see "Wide Doors Opened to FR" on page 26), I submit that the mystery of that little scroll has to do with God's hitherto hidden plan to raise up such a ministry to preach to all the nations.

    I f so, what God sware just before He gave the command to prophesy again is most noteworthy: "There should be time no longer: 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." Yes, in God's drama for the world, we are now in the closing scenes of the last act.

Tom Holt, Editor
NLDeditor@cs.com
Second Quarter, 2000

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