Verse 3 – No man in heaven or on
earth or under the earth, in Hell,
had any power to open the book or see what was inside. It is not in man’s
vision to open the book of prophecy. We cannot know what is to take place
without God’s words in His book. No man today claiming to know what is going to
happen in the future is telling the truth apart from what he has read here.
Take a moment and consider under the earth.
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was
three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be
three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is
kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume
the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalm 86:13 For great is thy
mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Revelation 20:3 And cast him
into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be
fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
What is a pit without a bottom,
only having sides? It is a sphere, like the center of the earth.
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
God’s prophecies are
indecipherable to unregenerate and rebellious man.
Isaiah 29:9 ¶ Stay yourselves,
and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they
stagger, but not with strong drink. 10
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto
you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is
sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to
him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not
learned. 13 Wherefore the Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me
is taught by the precept of men: 14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this
people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men
shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth
us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your
turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall
the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say
of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Verse 4 – John, as a man, is upset
that no man is found worthy to loose the seals and open the book. Judging by
the number of prophecy seminars I’ve read about in the last forty years I would
say that man’s desire to know the future is equaled only by his inability.
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