(Continued from “The Book with seven seals” of 29 June, 2024)
“A book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.“
The book written within and on the back-side is transcribed having a body and are set before the throne. First we have this quote from St Paul. “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men/Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart” (2 Co.3:2-3). St Paul writes of believers as ‘our epistles written not with ink,” What does the body of the four beast represent? They are memorial to the body of the church and the Gospel of God and of Christ. “were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.” They represent the Gospel of God as the world unseen and the gospel of Christ as ‘the works’ or fulfilment of the work of God. What is the work of God? Jesus explained it, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”(John 5:28-29). In the white throne of Judgment. “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”(Re.20:12)
The four beasts are memorial and the Spirit instructs us what the body of man formed from the ground signify. As a living soul his faculty to know and understand the truth is like the book written on the backside. Eyes behind the backside refers to his inner life where “The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.”(Pr.20:27) Eyes before is how he ought to interact with the world. They are represented in the Lamb which is worthy to break open the seals. “and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” The spirit of Christ is already sent out and the the word become flesh shall manifest in due time.
As soon as the Lamb takes the book the body of four and twenty elders and the four beasts worship him, “Saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;/And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”(vv.9-10) Here we have the predestination established in heave. Thus judgment is set and books were opened. This is in the “now” of divine Will. The book of life and book of the Lamb are already matched where the works of those judged are ‘closed’ as the man in the linen tells Daniel. “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?/And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end./ Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.”(Dan 12:8-10)
Predestination is the prerogative of God and it is the body of the church where four and twenty elders (8×3=24) tells us of the Gospel of God and that of Christ. In the white throne judgment those who are judged are according to their response to it. What occurs according to the breaking of seal are on earth.
Israel was called but they are cast off because they did not gather with the Man who was sent. “ For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.”(Matt.25:29).
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