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The Mighty Angel
Good afternoon!
I apologize for the crazy schedule that we have been running lately.
We should be good with our normal for the foreseeable future.
I hope that everyone is having a great weekend.
So, we have so far covered the first seven seals that have opened and then the first six trumpets were all sounded.
But, if you remember that before we even got to the seals God took a moment to remind us all that even though this world may be crazy and that things are only going to get worse.
HE IS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING.
There is nothing that occurs outside of His will.
And then between the sixth seal and the seventh seal he did so yet again.
And guess what.
We are going to again here in chapter ten be reminded after the first six trumpets that God is still the one who is in control of everything.
There is absolutely nothing that happens around us that is not in his control.
And trust me I know there are times that our lives feel very much like there is no one in control of anything that is happening in our lives or around our lives.
And there are times that the craziness of this life can begin to cause us to feel as though it is just going to close in and consume us.
But God.
Look I’m not simply talking about hectic times in our life.
That’s just normal.
We have just finished looking at the first six trumpets.
I am stepping away from where I was headed for just a moment.
I have to be honest I read online all the time people quoting from the book of revelation as proof that we are in the end times.
And listen real carefully to me.
If anyone says that anything after the letters to the churches is proof that we are in the end times then they simply can NOT read.
Has anyone here today seen anything even close to what we have discussed occuring in our world.
Anything remotely.
Listen real careful to me.
When we enter into the end times.
There will be NO DOUBT on anyones mind that the end has come.
And for some strange reason it’s almost always dudes.
Why?
I don’t know.
Listen we are definitely NOT right now in what could or should be called the end times.
What we are experiencing is not even close to anything that we have read concerning what is still yet to come.
The crazy that we are going to experience as a world is going to be so much greater than whatever is occuring in our crazy messed up world today that we are going to wish we were still here.
Now listen here’s the real encouragement that comes from this book.
As crazy and bad as it is going to become in the end times.
Jesus is the one in control of those times.
And so if somehow he’s got that.
I think that whatever is happening in your life today.
He’s got that as well.
And here’s the hardest truth you will perhaps ever hear.
Sometimes it’s not going to go the way you hoped or wanted.
But it was His decision.
And it was His decision for His glory first and for your good second.
It might not seem like it right now.
But here’s the thing.
It absolutely is.
I have experienced some absolutely crappy junk in my life.
And I’m telling you all of it was meant to bring glory to the name of Jesus and ultimately will be used by Him for my good.
How?
I may never know.
I simply need to find peace in that truth.
Why does God keep reminding us in this book of this truth?
Because we tend to only see the junk before us and not the cross that stands tall behind it all.
And so just like God reminds John over and over again.
Sometimes we need to remember to remind one another over and over again of this truth.
And it is this truth that Jesus is going to yet again remind us of here in chapter ten.
and eleven and twelve.
So let’s look at our first verse chapter ten.
Revelation chapter 10 verse one reads.
And so John looks and he sees before him in his vision a magnificent angel.
And look we could spend time looking at each of the details given concerning the angel.
But, I believe doing so actually puts too much emphasis upon the angel.
This magnificent being appears in such radiant splendor not to show some special meaning behind his appearance, but rather to express the magnitude of the message that he bears.
This is one of the major pitfalls of studying this book.
And look you can go and study each of these attributes of the angel.
I am simply going to say this.
That none of what you read that people guess at concerning the meaning of each is supported in any way by the text presented here before us today.
For instance most that I read say that the rainbow over the head of the angel is meant to present the “glory” of God as a crown.
But, I didn’t see that at all when I first read this verse.
I assumed that based on Genesis chapter nine it represented that the Angel was coming with grace and mercy to John.
So I just want to warn us to be careful when searching for meaning in the details of this book.
This is one magnificent angel that bears a truly magnificent message.
And that is what is important for us to see here.
In verse two we read more about this angel and the message that he brings.
In his left hand, we will see this detail in a few verses, he holds a little scroll.
We will get to the message of the scroll in just a bit.
Right now, though, John is focused upon the appearance of this mighty angel.
So far we have this mighty angel that has descended from the heavenlies and now stands with one foot upon the sea and the other upon the land.
What is interesting is that every artistic rendering that I have ever seen of this particular angel has this gigantic angel in it.
And yet no where in the description is his size mentioned.
When I first read this I pictured an angel standing on the sea shore, perhaps a bit taller than normal but not a giant, with one foot in the water and the other on dry land.
I understand why we get there, I think.
But that’s not doing justice to the words I believe God purposefully chose to describe this angel.
He is a “mighty” angel.
The greek word here can be translated as forcible, boisterous, mighty, powerful, strong, or even valiant.
None of these though infer size.
In fact I don’t believe that the angel is mighty because of either his strength or his size.
But rather because of the force and weight of his message.
And so I think that what we have here is an angel, and no I don’t believe that this is Jesus as some have supposed.
Why?
Because every time Jesus is present in the book of Revelation he is called Jesus or the Christ.
He is never referenced to as an angel.
This would have to be the only time.
And yet we have a lot of angels present throughout the book.
No one assumes any of those are Jesus except perhaps this one.
In the end if it were Jesus I believe that would be stated.
Instead John identifies the one before him as a mighty angel.
And, well, John kinda knew Jesus.
I don’t believe he is getting him confused.
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