This book review is on Rev. chapter 14 & 15. I believe it is the will of God that all men be saved. Therefore He looks at the heart to know who is ready and willing to follow. We who have been willing to follow the will of God must always praise the Lord and have an attitude of thankfulness for all He has dons to draw us out of darkness. We have believed the word of God to know the Anti-christ shall be a man that the dragon will raise from this world to stand against God, and that this man will rule with absolute tyranny against all human beings and spare not those who are born of water and of the Spirit because born again believers will oppose him to defend the faith of the righteousness of God. The question now that we need to consider is:-
How should the saints react to the appearance of the Anti-christ in the Age of the Pale Horse which is round the corner? At the present the dragon through his unclean spirits is pouring sins into the world, and many are being overflowed with the flood of sins. This is so because we are witnessing it everyday. Thank God for the remission of sins; for true born again believers are being helped by the Holy Ghost to keep away from sins. However, in the Age of the Pale horse, Satan will resort to actually killing believers who do not yield to his flood of sins. Knowing this then it becomes very crucial for us to prepare our faith to stand against the Anti-christ when he makes his appearance on the earth. There is no doubt that God has ordained before the foundation of the earth that we shall overcome the Dragon with our faith in God. Satan knows that the faith of the Water and the Spirit is indestructible, and will seek to bring fear on believers through martyrdom for saints to capitulate and reject God. We need to understand this and allow the Holy Spirit in this Era and in the Era of the Pale horse to help us to build us up in the faith of Gold to defeat the Anti-christ with our faith and accept martyrdom which is the plan of God to give victory to believers who walk in the faith of the Baptism of Jesus and of the Spirit. We have the assurance and confidence that Jesus shall lift us up to meet Him in the air by His power and pour down the plagues of the seven bowls upon this earth to take vengeance on His enemies to fulfil Dt.32:35: He will avange His children`s death.
We must not forget the word of truth which God has given us in Rev.14 onwards which has taught us that the Resurrection of Martyred saints and Rupture will most certainly come to the saints immediately after their martyrdom. This is the confidence that we must have in Jesus Christ who was able to open the seven seals and to complete the mystery of God.
We must understand and not forget what are the plagues of the seven bowls prepared for those who stand against God; for they are for the destruction of everything on the earth after the resurrection and rapture of all who slept in Christ, martyred saints, and those who remain and are alive. This is pictured in Verse 19, " So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God."
Our hope should be the inheritance of the Millennial Kingdom and the Authority of the saints. The Age of the Millennial Kingdom will begin when the Lord, together with the saints, descsnds to this earth again. The sermon on the mount in Mt.5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."; and Ps.37:29 "the righteous shall inherit the Land," will be fulfilled.
Having this hope, what must the Saints who live in this dark Age do? Of course the important thing is for us to preach the gospel of the righteousness of God that came by the water and the Spirit in which the faith of the righteousness of God revealed ( Rom.1:16-17). The gospel that we preach must enable people out there to know the difference between forgiveness of sins and the remission of sins. The commission which the Lord gave us is to preach this gospel throughout the whole world. My current experience with the church of the cross of Jesus only has taught me conclussively that I must understand this gospel to be able to test the spirit even among those who claim to be Pastors etc. There are people who are genuinely seeking the Lord, but are tken in by wolves in sheep`s clothing. These people are not able to experience the peace of God because they have not come into the truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit; but we thank God for enabling us to receive His peace into our hearts.
We should rejoice because the first resurrection is an event reserved for the Saints. It is obvious as we come to the truth of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, that before long the Anti-christ will appear in this world. The fact is all these things that we are seeing and shall come to pass are all in the plan of God. For me I believe that by the working of the Power of God in me I rejoice in that all in Christ whose flesh shall be cut off by the Anti-christ shall be ressurected and raptured by the Power of God and will take part in the marriage supper of the Lamb with the Lord.
It is very important I believe for us to maintain fellowship with the word and daily walk daily with our faith inited with our Lord`s in His Baptism, His blood on the cross and His resurrection. We have no choice but to walk in this faith that fights against and overcome the anti-christ.
In our preaching we must know that even now there are many Liars who are deceiving people; and are teaching false faith. These deceivers are giving people a false sense Salvation through the doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture and leaving them a complacent comfort zone. Indeed we have through the New life Mission been helped by the Lord to know that God will need to use believers right through to just before the completion of the mystery of God when believers will lifted up to meet the Lord in the air before the out-pour of the plagues of the seven bowls after the last trump ( seventh trumpet ).
The crucial question now is then, How should we all live now? In Eph.3:20 " Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the Power that worketh in us." Clearly if we have believed the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then we have the Holt Spirit as the gift of God in our hearts. Therefore, to walk in the faith of the righteousness of God, we need to listen to and believe with our hearts what the Holy Spirit is saying to us throughthe Church. No one can finish this great work of the great commission by oneself. At the same time one cannot keep it to oneself, but to spread the word. This is why the church of God is so important for we are members one of another to work in the unity of the faith.
We can see from Rev. chapter 15 how those who overcame the Anti-christ were praising God with seven angels with the last sevenplagues to be out on to the earth. At this moment in time the book says that no one was able to enter the Temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. We have to understand the significance of the multiples of sevens that are shown in Reveltion; for they show the Omnipotence and the Omniscience of Jesus our God. It shows the Perfection and His Almighty Power.
The Saints praise the Lord for His Omniscient and Omnipotent Power and Majesty revealed through the plagues of the seven bowls that He would pour on the world.
The " sign in heaven, great and marvelous " refers:-
1 to the last plagues of the seven bowls that shall poured on this world.
The phrase:- " grat and marvelous " tells us on the other hand, are three fold:- 1 through the words of prophecy, the saints already know all the plagues that will come to this world;
2 the saints will be exempt from the plagues of the seven bowls; and,
3 the power of these plagues of the seven bowls that the Lord will bring to this world shall worldwide and fatally destructive.
On the other hand, the redeemed and the raptured saints will sing "the song of Moses,the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb" in air. Ex.15:1-8, was the song of the Israelites, who praised the Lord for leading them across the Red sea by Moses. They could not help but paise the Lord for saving them with His Power and Authority from the desperate situation of being pursued by the Egyptian army. Likewise the saints of the New Testament praise the Lord for His Eternal Salvation, which came through the remission of sins fulfilled by the Baptism that Jesus received from John the Baptist and His blood on the cross. In the like manner the people of God will praise the Lord,thanking Him for their martyrdom,resurrection,rapture and eternal life, all made possible made possible through Jesus Christ who delivered them from all their enemies, and their sins.
In Rev.15:5 Here, "the Temple of the tabernacle of the tetimony" refers to the tabernacle that god allowed the Israelites when they left Egypt so as to give them the blessing of accompanying the Lord. The linen refers to the righteousness of God. It tells us the anges will be clothed in God`s righteousness and receive from Him the authority to render the kind of judgment that no enemy can ever reject. The significanc of "The temple was filled with the smoke of the glory of God and from His Power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angel were completed." These are the meanings:-
1 It shows how complete God`s wrath on His enemies is.
2 It tells us no one can enter into the Lord`s temple without believing in the Baptism of Jesus and His blood, for God`s Salvation of the sinners is so perfect.
3 It shows that no human goodness can ever enable anyone to avoid the righteous judgment of God, and that only believing in the Baptism of Jesus and His blood on the cross can one escape from the wrath of God poured on the sinners.
