6 ¶ And he said unto me, These
sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his
angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Remember that the angel speaking,
who began in 21:9 showing John the New Jerusalem, the home of the bride of
Christ and Christ, is one of the seven angels who had the seven vials of God’s
judgment, apparently speaking with Christ the Lamb’s permission, command, and
authority.
We have come full circle.
Revelation 1:1 ¶ The Revelation
of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto
his servant John: 2 Who bare record of
the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that
he saw.
God sent His angel to show His
servants things which must happen soon in God’s sense of time.
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years
in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Ecclesiastes 6:6 Yea, though he
live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to
one place?
2Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not
ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day.
God’s angel is His presence, the
physical image of God.
Judges 2:1 And an angel of the
LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt,
and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said,
I will never break my covenant with you.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the
angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Judges 13:21 But the angel of the
LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was
an angel of the LORD. 13:22 And Manoah
said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
[There are no angels with wings in
the Bible. Winged angels are a fiction brought over from Persian
Zoroastrianism.]
Notice how the word even is used as comparing two things
which are the same.
Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under
heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
And see this verse;
Galatians 4:14 And my temptation
which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an
angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
For Jesus is;
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god
of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is
the image of God, should shine unto them.
Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the
brightness of his glory, and the express
image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high;
And we know from the use of the
word image that it is appearance or
likeness.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
This us shows that God and man are composed of three parts; body, soul,
and spirit.
1Thessalonians 5:23 And the very
God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I
pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
2Corinthians 13:14 The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1John 5:7 For there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one.
7 Behold, I come quickly:
blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Christ promised that these events
related in Revelation will happen fast, in an accelerated fashion, in an
overwhelming series of disasters.
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore
from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will
come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,
except thou repent….16 Repent; or else I
will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my
mouth.
Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come
quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I
come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work
shall be…20 He which testifieth these
things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them.
And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the
angel which shewed me these things.
Here is how the Bible defines the
physical posture of worship, as in this verse.
I fell down to worship.
Genesis 24:26 And the man bowed
down his head, and worshipped the LORD…52
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he
worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
Psalm 95:6 O come, let us
worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Matthew 27:29 And when they had
platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right
hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of
the Jews!
9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not:
for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which
keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
The angel tells John to worship
God, not him.
A Christian is to bow before no
man but God. No king, no ruler of any kind is worthy of our worship, perhaps
our obedience, but not the act of worship. This has led to great confusion and
blasphemy in history as kings demanded the physical act of worship, much to
their shame.
Do you wonder which prophet this
angel represented?
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