back to indexCollege Bible Study - Revelation 10
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It says that his body is clothed in a cloud, is wrapped. 00:00:22.320 |
And for someone to call that their jacket, this is a big, 00:00:27.760 |
It says that his head is wrapped with a rainbow. 00:00:30.520 |
And we saw a little bit about the rainbow in chapter four. 00:00:39.280 |
during the time of Noah, that in the midst of judgment that 00:00:41.960 |
wiped out all of planet Earth, that the rainbow showed mercy. 00:00:54.600 |
And so it shows, even in this thing, that his head-- 00:01:03.640 |
I don't know if you guys have ever tried to go 00:01:09.200 |
One time I did, when I was in elementary school, 00:01:26.480 |
That guy, he said that at the end of the rainbow. 00:01:29.480 |
And I ended up about 30 minutes away from home, 00:01:39.340 |
it's just that his head is wrapped in a rainbow. 00:01:42.320 |
Just imagine a head underneath that stretch of land 00:01:47.360 |
It's trying to describe something about this angel. 00:02:07.760 |
That there's this radiant glory coming out from this angel. 00:02:14.320 |
And it's not just like a sun that Addie draws. 00:02:17.440 |
She likes drawing little suns and coloring it now 00:02:28.480 |
And it says also that his legs were like pillars of fire. 00:02:36.000 |
And you can see that in some of these different places. 00:02:39.280 |
I wrote here Isaiah 66, 16 just for one thing. 00:02:42.200 |
I don't even know if I wrote down those texts. 00:02:43.600 |
But fire is this idea of it burning through things. 00:03:03.440 |
from verse one all the way through verse two. 00:03:14.400 |
And they're trying to show kind of the disparity here 00:03:17.200 |
between this huge angel and this tiny scroll in his hand. 00:03:29.560 |
And he called out with a loud voice like a lion roaring. 00:03:33.440 |
So if we wanna go through these bullet points, 00:03:39.400 |
his feet being on the sea and land describes his enormity 00:03:54.560 |
And this scroll that had already been opened, 00:03:59.920 |
Okay, so there is a time and point where it was opened 00:04:22.400 |
Okay, so that gives us a little bit of a clue 00:04:26.240 |
This scroll, it describes the remaining divine judgments. 00:04:41.440 |
judgment is coming for you, so believe in Christ. 00:04:47.480 |
And this scroll is opened up saying, it's going to come. 00:04:53.920 |
Genesis to Revelation is going to be in your hands 00:05:08.400 |
called out with a loud voice like a lion roaring. 00:05:12.080 |
And when he called out, the seventh thunder sounded. 00:05:23.840 |
and number one, lion's roar, this is the Lord's voice. 00:05:31.360 |
And the lion's roar, this voice of a lion is described 00:05:50.560 |
They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, 00:05:54.880 |
and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord. 00:05:57.560 |
Now don't think about, I think the only times 00:05:59.320 |
we've seen lions are in like children's books 00:06:04.960 |
Now lions were a common wild animal during this time. 00:06:12.440 |
into the wilderness at night, what's gonna happen? 00:06:18.880 |
because a boogeyman's gonna come and get you. 00:06:20.160 |
No, it's like, don't go out because remember, 00:06:28.560 |
It's not just like, oh yeah, like a ferocious, 00:06:31.240 |
you know, Aslan, you know, that kind of thing. 00:06:41.040 |
And it says this also in Amos chapter three, verse eight. 00:06:45.520 |
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing 00:06:53.760 |
The Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy? 00:07:09.760 |
Not those types of things where we go and like, 00:07:15.800 |
But like, if we got one from the middle of the jungle 00:07:18.760 |
and we placed this lion right here and it roared, 00:07:22.960 |
every single one of us would tremble down to our shoes, 00:07:26.680 |
right, we would be screaming and running as fast as, 00:07:30.880 |
we would be jumping over each other to get out of this place 00:07:33.840 |
it would be so terrible, it's a thing of nightmares. 00:07:46.080 |
this is the angel speaking on behalf of the Lord God. 00:07:55.000 |
it says there are seven, it sounds like seven thunders. 00:07:59.440 |
This is a complete voice of God calling out to, 00:08:04.480 |
Like seven thunders, this complete completion 00:08:19.560 |
What's interesting about this text is that it says 00:08:22.080 |
that the angel told him, even though John actually, 00:08:45.040 |
and to write down what, he was about to write it there. 00:08:47.800 |
That little scroll already had things written in it. 00:09:05.200 |
just to kind of get us more interactive here. 00:09:07.680 |
Why do you think we aren't told what was spoken? 00:09:13.920 |
because I know you could get anywhere with this one. 00:10:03.320 |
So you don't have to think too hard about it. 00:10:05.600 |
Okay, anybody wanna volunteer what the other person said? 00:10:15.200 |
Not what you said, what the other person said. 00:10:35.480 |
This is different from the direction given to him 00:10:37.200 |
in Revelation chapter one, verse 10 through 11 and 19. 00:10:39.680 |
And those are passages, if you look back there, 00:10:41.760 |
where God says, "Write all these things down." 00:10:44.080 |
Well, God says here, "Don't write this down." 00:10:56.040 |
As I was reading this, I'm like, "God, why would you do that?" 00:11:06.080 |
that's gonna be like, "Hey, hey, can I tell you something?" 00:11:08.520 |
And then like, you know, people will be, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." 00:11:30.520 |
"If you didn't want John to write it, don't even say that." 00:11:46.960 |
For example, people, I think, can even discount the Bible 00:11:56.440 |
And so, you know, that's why I don't like, like, 00:12:03.400 |
and try to, like, ask questions that are going to stump people. 00:12:06.120 |
And, you know, it's like, well, at the end of the day, 00:12:08.400 |
no person is going to have all the answers to anything. 00:12:13.600 |
And so, just because of that, people might have questions 00:12:19.480 |
that they feel like aren't answered in the Bible. 00:12:25.360 |
Or the God of the Bible is either not a real God 00:12:27.800 |
or He's a bad God that I'm not going to follow. 00:12:45.000 |
We don't need any more than what's been displayed to us 00:12:53.080 |
Everything we need that pertains to godliness is found here. 00:13:06.480 |
Like, sometimes it'll take us about 30 minutes to get home, 00:13:12.600 |
So much so that we have set, like, Alexa, you know, 00:13:19.800 |
we say, "Alexa, set an alarm for five minutes." 00:13:22.040 |
And then she knows she's not supposed to talk for five minutes 00:13:27.280 |
And it's better for me because, like, when I come home, 00:13:32.760 |
when she asks me questions, I'm all patient, you know? 00:13:35.240 |
But for Keziah, she hears it 24 hours a day, you know? 00:13:40.360 |
And then, and so Keziah has been saying this a lot lately. 00:13:44.280 |
She says, "Addie, you don't need to know everything." 00:13:47.240 |
'Cause Addie is like, "Why is this happening? 00:13:50.960 |
"Well, why do I have to eat this one and this one?" 00:13:52.960 |
You know, and then so all of these things are happening. 00:13:54.680 |
And Keziah says, "You don't need to know everything. 00:13:57.280 |
"Just trust that we're doing what's best for you, 00:14:06.280 |
And then, like, two seconds later, she's at it again. 00:14:10.480 |
We ask questions after questions after questions. 00:14:17.520 |
And all these different things, and it's just, 00:14:28.720 |
we're gonna come across a lot of times in our lives 00:14:39.200 |
in our unbelief and a faith that shatters underneath us. 00:15:09.040 |
what's going on with Job, and why he's suffering, 00:15:14.680 |
and it's like, oh, all this talking going on for chapters, 00:15:21.280 |
It's just man talking, man talking, man talking, 00:16:06.160 |
He knows which molecule is out of place in our body. 00:16:24.280 |
He sees everything, not just in breadth, but in depth. 00:16:28.120 |
He sees every dark corner, not of just of the world 00:16:59.280 |
When we go up, we'll ask him, what were those things? 00:17:10.680 |
and this angel kind of puts up his right hand 00:17:17.560 |
the angel swears that there would be no more delay 00:17:22.880 |
The fulfillment of the mystery of God to the prophets 00:17:31.240 |
So it says this in Daniel 12, verse five through nine. 00:17:40.920 |
"Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, 00:17:47.760 |
"And someone said to the man clothed in linen 00:17:52.160 |
"how long shall it be till the end of these wonders? 00:18:00.000 |
"He raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven 00:18:04.920 |
"that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. 00:18:27.760 |
is starting to get a little bit more familiar to you. 00:18:38.040 |
And he says, and it says, this response comes back 00:18:41.840 |
and says these things are gonna be sealed till the end. 00:18:51.200 |
And so this is the completion of God's judgment. 00:19:01.800 |
The fullness of God's wrath is going to be unleashed here. 00:19:06.920 |
This is the finale that we're gonna be seeing 00:19:19.640 |
It says, and this is talking about the slain souls. 00:19:29.880 |
"'how long before you will judge and avenge our blood 00:20:09.240 |
So it could be based on something you've seen 00:20:14.320 |
or even something you've heard someone say to another person, 00:20:20.920 |
but turn to a neighbor and talk about something like that, 00:20:36.600 |
because I know you have to kind of rack it a little. 00:23:12.560 |
there are some interesting ones that are here. 00:23:34.480 |
this understanding of justice in our lives, right? 00:23:45.160 |
You know, I remember how early it was built into me. 00:23:53.760 |
We're all standing in line to get big sticks. 00:24:01.440 |
and I saw someone cut to the very second person in line. 00:24:06.320 |
And then I remember them getting the big stick 00:24:11.680 |
And I was standing in line for another 10 minutes. 00:24:19.760 |
where the bad guy would get away with it too easily. 00:24:43.960 |
"They did all this bad stuff in the middle of the movie. 00:25:00.800 |
it really does demand justice in cases of evil and wickedness. 00:25:16.440 |
And here, as we're seeing the Lord responding in judgment, 00:25:29.640 |
We have such unclear understandings of justice. 00:25:44.760 |
that somehow, beyond even our own understanding, 00:25:48.520 |
that sin requires such a great judgment as this. 00:25:57.520 |
Any person that has ever said, "This isn't fair. 00:26:04.280 |
should be pointing a finger right back at themselves 00:26:25.040 |
when someone sins against you, lies to you, backstabs you. 00:26:29.080 |
And even going through Romans 12, verse 9 through 21 00:26:32.960 |
with Pastor Peter, hasn't it been so convicting lately? 00:26:56.160 |
When someone sins against us and lies against us 00:26:59.920 |
and backstabs us, we feel the sense of justice, 00:27:02.280 |
and we'll see that again more at the end of Romans 12. 00:27:17.160 |
and there is going to be no crime that goes unpunished. 00:27:21.560 |
And to know that God sees everything and knows everything, 00:27:26.040 |
not just all the crimes and all the things that we see 00:27:32.480 |
and the myriads, the thousands, the millions of crimes 00:27:42.080 |
and then to know the depth of our own hearts, 00:27:49.640 |
and to look up at a judge and to demand justice, 00:28:00.960 |
against the people who martyred these slain souls. 00:28:05.120 |
This is talking about judgment upon an unbelieving world. 00:28:08.400 |
And so for every person who escapes God's judgment, 00:28:13.440 |
and so I'm talking about any Christian sitting in this room, 00:28:22.200 |
Like, do we recognize that in the way we live? 00:28:37.600 |
taking the sins of the world is a staggering concept, 00:28:42.600 |
especially when we see how fiercely God judges the earth here. 00:28:54.120 |
God will fulfill complete, I wanna emphasize that, 00:28:57.760 |
complete justice and judgment upon the earth to redeem it. 00:29:10.200 |
and we think about it in terms of things done, 00:29:13.480 |
but to the depths of the essence of our hearts, 00:29:17.600 |
that we don't just do sinful things, that we are sinners, 00:29:30.680 |
or for anyone who placed their faith in Christ, 00:29:35.320 |
Complete justice and judgment upon the earth, 00:29:47.760 |
God is taking back the title deed to the earth. 00:29:50.640 |
He's saying, I'm going to save not just individuals, 00:29:54.520 |
but everything, all of creation is going to be redeemed. 00:30:04.960 |
let's finish this up, this is the very last point. 00:30:10.320 |
"Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel 00:30:13.000 |
"who is standing on the sea and on the land." 00:30:23.120 |
"but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." 00:30:29.520 |
but when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. 00:30:34.840 |
"about many peoples and nations, and languages and kings." 00:30:43.640 |
to eat the scroll, which will be sweet in the mouth, 00:30:49.320 |
to the faithful believer who will be avenged, 00:30:57.240 |
Okay, so let's bring everything together in this chapter. 00:31:11.560 |
of the gospel, of everything that needs to be revealed. 00:31:14.160 |
It's seen in the fact that it's an open scroll. 00:31:19.000 |
and there's more things that are supposed to happen, 00:31:21.880 |
more things that we don't need to know about. 00:31:38.640 |
Well, in verse 11, that's where we see the clue. 00:31:43.440 |
"about many peoples and nations and languages and kings." 00:31:53.200 |
but it's gonna leave a bitterness in his stomach. 00:32:04.160 |
It is just the sweetest thing, this word of God. 00:32:07.800 |
And yet, as you've been reading through Revelation, 00:32:18.720 |
this judgment that's coming is hard to swallow. 00:32:37.440 |
this week after week, have talked about people 00:32:51.440 |
because of the fear of that bitterness in the stomach, 00:33:21.360 |
the full message of the gospel, sweet and bitter and all. 00:33:38.280 |
talking about, okay, what did the professor say 00:33:41.360 |
in this class, or did you see that last episode 00:34:15.000 |
into groups again and talking in a different way 00:34:17.280 |
because our table groups are all funky right now. 00:34:19.720 |
But I wanna ask us to really push each other to this. 00:34:27.000 |
and week after week, there is a similar message. 00:34:34.720 |
It is the same message in the midst of God's wrath 00:35:01.480 |
To say, because of this, I am going to change 00:35:10.120 |
you guys are gonna be going through questions 00:35:18.400 |
what deadens you in your life to this message. 00:35:24.520 |
and this sucks as a message coming right into spring break, 00:35:28.920 |
oh, I cannot wait to watch eight hours of this show. 00:35:34.200 |
and you're gonna unleash your sinfulness this week. 00:35:42.000 |
that's being seen here, then how is your life 00:35:48.320 |
Trust what it's saying, and go live in obedience. 00:35:57.480 |
it's kinda, I hope that the board games we play 00:36:00.040 |
and stuff doesn't, like, deaden us some more, 00:36:01.840 |
but as we go, I hope that it's a collective effort 00:36:12.920 |
and like, so we found Berean, and so we're doing Berean, 00:36:18.240 |
loving God with all our hearts, so in love with God, 00:36:21.760 |
our lives are for Him, everything we do is for Him, 00:36:30.360 |
that is strikingly different from the rest of this world, 00:36:34.840 |
understanding that they're not really sacrifices, 00:36:41.480 |
that is holy and completely sold out for Christ, 00:36:44.360 |
to love Him in all the different things that we're doing, 00:36:47.360 |
that putting down, you know, not playing some video games 00:36:49.760 |
or not playing, like, watching some TV shows, 00:36:58.880 |
that I need to do all these things before I go to sleep, 00:37:03.240 |
and it's not a sacrifice, I want to use these times 00:37:06.760 |
to maybe go and have a conversation with my roommate, 00:37:09.240 |
with my parents, with whoever I'm gonna go and see, 00:37:15.560 |
to spend some time studying Scripture some more, 00:37:18.360 |
because I know this is such a sweet time in college 00:37:21.440 |
where I can study Scripture with such flexibility, 00:37:29.040 |
And so let me pray for us, and then I guess we'll sing a song 00:37:42.200 |
I pray, God, that this wouldn't be an interesting book to us,