THE REVELATION OF THE FOUR
BEASTS
Revelation 4: 6
And before the throne there was a sea
of glass like unto crystal; and in the
midst of the throne, and round about
the throne, were FOUR BEASTS full
of eyes before and behind.
There are Four Beasts (Four Riders; Lamb) who
come from
the MIDST (middle) of the throne, these represent
the Lamb (Four
HorseMEN). The Lamb is from the MIDST of the throne,
see Rev.5:6.
There are Four Beasts ROUND ABOUT the throne as well.
There
are two groups of Four Beasts. The Beasts have eyes
before (in front)
and behind them (at the back); this signifies that
the Beasts can see
the future (eyes before) and the past (eyes
behind them). The Lamb
revealed to them (Four Beasts ROUND ABOUT the throne)
the
Seven Seals: the mysteries contained in the words of the
Prophets
which have a Thus Saith the Lord. Thereby the
Beasts know the
past (where they have been) and the future (where
they are going)
as revealed in prophecy. The Beasts ROUND ABOUT the
throne
have received the knowledge of the past, present and
future because
the Lamb who had Seven Eyes (complete vision) and
Seven Horns
(complete power) revealed unto them the Revelation
of the Seven
Seals Scroll.
Rev.4: 7
And the first beast was like a lion,
and the second beast was like a calf,
and the third beast had a face as a
man, and the fourth beast was like
a flying eagle.
The features of each Beast denotes the characteristics
of all Four
Beasts. The face like a lion reveals them as kings of the
beasts. The
face like a calf reveals they are to be sacrificed upon
the altar of the
Fifth Seal (see Rev.6:9) for the Word of God (Seven
Seals); the
Lamb (sacrificial animal) who revealed the Seven
Seals has been
sacrificed (killed). The face of a man reveals
that these Beasts are
humans. Man has degenerated since the fall of the first
two in Eden
(Adam and Eve). Today mans nature is likened
unto beasts (animals).
Eccl.3:18, I said in my heart
concerning the estate of the sons of
men, that God might manifest them, and that they might
see that
they themselves ARE BEASTS.
God wants us to realize that we are no better than the
beasts of the
field whilst in the sinful beastly flesh. The manner in
which God dealt
with king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is a good example of
what
God can do with those who are willing to have their
hearts and minds
renewed by the Spirit of Truth contained in the Seven
Seals
(see Dan.4:19-37 which refers to Nebuchadnezzar).
The Beasts have also the face of a flying eagle,
revealing they
are the king (eagle) of birds which fly in heaven (atmosphere),
and are to resurrect (fly) from the earth.
Rev.5: 8
And when he had taken the book,
the four beasts and four and twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb,
having every one of them harps,
and golden vials full of odors,
which are the prayers of saints.
The Lamb took the book (scroll) from the Right
Hand of the
one who sits upon the throne, see Rev.5:1,7. The Four
Beasts
ROUND ABOUT the throne and Twenty-four Elders worship
the Lamb (Four Beasts in the MIDST of the throne)
with
golden vials (bowls) full of odors (prayers).
The golden vials
(bowls) denote that they officiate in the heavenly
sanctuary (temple)
of God. The priests being shown as Four Beasts ROUND
ABOUT
the throne signifies that the things which are revealed
in heaven
are a mirror (vision) reflection of what is taking
place in the latter
days upon the earth. The Lamb (High Priest) is
typified by Aaron
(High Priest). The Four Beasts (priests) that
are ROUND ABOUT
the throne are typified by the four sons (priests)
of Aaron who
ministered in the earthly sanctuary. The Four Beasts who
are ROUND
ABOUT the throne are the Lambs Bride who were the
to receive
the Seven Seals Scroll in the last generation, thereby
understanding
the mysteries of prophecy.
Rev.5: 9
And they sung a new song, 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.
The Four Beasts (priests) and the Twenty-four
Elders (kings)
sing a New Song. The New Song is the Song (Seven
Seals)
of the Lamb, which is the Seven Seals Mystery contained
in
the words of the Prophets and Moses, see Rev.15:2-4.
In the last generation, the Lamb (Man-child)
has revealed the
Seven Seals to his Bride (The Bride is represented by
the
Four Horses/Beasts who are ROUND ABOUT the throne).
The Four Beasts (Four Riders) from the MIDST of
the throne
are typified by Jacob and the Four Beasts ROUND ABOUT
the throne are typified by Jacobs four wives and
the twelve
Apostles.
The Four Beasts who are ROUND ABOUT the throne are to
be redeemed from the last living generation. The other
groups
of Four Beasts are redeemed from all new testament
generations
during the three and a half days of Rev.11:11. During the
three
and a half days the Two Witnesses (Spirit of the Lamb
and
Chosen Vessel written on each side of the scroll)
redeem a
multitude making up the 200,000,000 from the past dead.
During
the three and a half days the Lamb and the Chosen Vessel
are
dead in the flesh (the last three and a half days of
the 1,260
days, see Rev.11:11) but alive in the spirit. The
Four Beasts
ROUND ABOUT the throne include people who had died from
the time of the ascension of Yahshua (Christ) to
the time of the
latter day Lamb. The Four Beasts (200,000,000)
ROUND ABOUT
the throne are typified by the multitude that resurrected
with Christ
when he arose after three days.
Mt.27:52, And the graves were opened;
and many of the bodies
of the Saints which slept arose.
When Christ resurrected 2,000 years ago, a multitude
of Saints
resurrected with Christ. The multitude who resurrected
with Christ
typify the 200,000,000 who are to be redeemed from the
generations
after Yahshua (Christ 2,000 years ago) to the
generation of the
latter day Lamb. The Lamb revealed the Seven Seals to the
last
generation of the living, before the Sixth Seal.
The multitude whom Christ gathered were from the
generations
after Adam to Christ, typifying the resurrected group of
Rev.9:3,
who are the 200,000,000 Horses (feminine; perfect
mates).
The Riders (masculine; perfect mates), of
the all the Horses is
the Lamb, see also Is.34:16.
Mt.12:40, For as Jonah was three days
and three nights in the
whales (great fish) belly; so shall the son
of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Christ said he would be in the heart of the earth for
three days
signifying his death. Christ is the written Word made
flesh. The
Word was written by the Prophets concerning the Messiah.
When Christ said he would be in the heart of the earth
for three
days and three nights he was quoting from prophecy which
is
written in the words (scriptures) of God.
Mk.14:21, The Son of man indeed
goeth, as it is written of him;
but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!
Good
were it for that man if he had never been born.
That which was written concerning Christ (in the
Word of God)
was how Christs ministry and death had to happen,
because
Christ is the written Word (that was written by the
Prophets)
made into flesh (fulfilled).
Jn.2:19, Destroy this temple (body
of Christ), and in three days
I will raise it up.
Christ was without a doubt quoting prophecy from the
old testament
writings of the Prophets, because the Son of Man goeth as
it is written
of him, see Mk.14:21. The new testament writings had not
yet been
written in the days of Christs ministry. Therefore,
Christ was quoting
from the old testament scriptures.
Dan.9:27, And he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week:
and in the MIDST of the WEEK he (Christ) shall
cause the sacrifice
and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations
he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation (cleansing
of
the sanctuary), and that determined (Gods
Word) shall be poured
(spirit of burning) upon the desolate (those who
have an Abomination
written in their foreheads).
In Dan.9:27, the Messiah is to prophesy for the
last week of the 70
week period mentioned in Dan.9:24. The one week was the
last week
of the Messiahs ministry. In the MIDST (middle) of
the last week
the Messiah was cut off (killed, Dan.9:26). Half (Midst)
of a week is
three and a half days. Christ the Messiah was referring
to Dan.9:27
when he quoted the three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth
being the sign of Jonah to the world at that time. In the
Midst (middle)
of the week Christ replaced the sacrificial offerings for
sin, with his own
body (Lamb of God) which atoned for the sins of
many. Therefore
those who kept offering animals as an atonement for sin
after the Lamb
(Christ) of God offered himself 2,000 years ago,
meant they were
offering an Abomination which left them desolate.
The same applies in the latter days being the
anti-type of the Christ
2,000 years ago. The latter day Lamb reveals who he is,
by opening
(unlocking) the Seven Seals Mysteries which no man
can do except
the Lamb of God. Thereafter, those who still follow the
past way of
offering worship to God, even through the name of Yahshua
(Jesus),
are offering an Abomination to God which will leave them
desolate.
The latter day Lamb has a New Name which no man knows
except
the Lamb himself, see Rev.2:17; 3:12; 6:8; 19:12. The
Christians
who have rejected the Revelation of the Seven Seals have
in its
(Seven Seals) place an Abomination (Christian
theology
and worship).
Christ 2,000 years ago was killed (cut off) in
the middle (midst)
of the week, see Dan. 9:27. The prophecy of Daniel says
that the
Messiah is to confirm the covenant (Present Truth)
with MANY
for one week, see Dan.9:27. Christ was killed in the
midst of the
week, which still leaves three and a half days remaining
to confirm
the covenant with the MANY for one week. After Christ had
confirmed the covenant with his disciples during the
final days of
his earthly ministry, he was then crucified in the middle
of the week
of Dan.9:27.
Christ replaced the sacrificial lambs with his own
body (in the
Midst of the week) as an atonement for the sins of
the world.
For the remainder of the three and a half days (of the
week of
Dan.9:27) the Spirit of Christ (being dead in the
flesh while his
body lay in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea)
returned to the
dead spirits of the past. In other words, when Christ was
killed,
for the three and a half days while his dead body lay in
the tomb,
Christs spirit returned to the lost sinners of the
past who had died
in their sins without ever hearing the words of Christ.
Christ stated
during his earthly ministry that had he preached to Sodom
as he
had preached to the Jews (Judah) Sodom would not
have been
destroyed because many would have believed on him, see
Mt.11:23,
ref. to Sodom.
1Pet.3:18, For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins, the just
for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put
to death
(crucified) in the flesh (body), but
quickened (made alive) by
the Spirit (having no bounds).
1Pet.3:19, By which (Christs
death) also he (Christ) went
and preached unto the spirits (dead of the past)
in prison
(bottomless pit; grave; death);
1Pet.3:20, Which sometime (in the
past) were disobedient
(rejecters of Gods Word through the Prophets),
when
once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of
Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is,
eight souls
were saved by water.
During the latter half of the week (being the three
and a half
days of Dan.9:27), while his body lay in the tomb,
Christs
spirit was quickened (alive) and able to return (past)
to the
spirits (dead) who once lived in the generations
from Adam to
Christ who were disobedient to Gods messengers of
the past.
In that three and a half days while he lay in the tomb,
Christ was
able to set up a kind of dreamworld in every past
generation,
which would seem like the real world to those who were
repeating
their life in this dreamworld which did not
actually exist in reality.
Christ was able to minister unto those people of the
past, who
were disobedient to the messengers whom God had sent to
them
in their actual lives.
After Christ had received a new experience with his
Apostles
during his earthly ministry, Christ could better
understand the
people who had lived in the past. Therefore when he
returned
in spirit (dead in the flesh) to those of the
past, the people who
Christ returned to did not realize they had already lived
their lives
and were now repeating their lives in a playback of
a video so
to speak. Christ was edited into their
dreamworld in an attempt
to save the spirits that were once lost. Every generation
will have
the same privileges of having Christ (Word made flesh)
preach in
their time. God is able to repeat the past, and edit
Christ into the
past. After the three and a half days in the tomb, Christ
arose and
many of them which slept also arose with Christ after
hearing
his voice.
Jn.5:25, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God: and they that hear shall live.
Mt.27:52,53, And the graves were
opened; and many of the
bodies of the saints which slept arose (after
Christs resurrection),
and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and
went into the
holy city (Jerusalem), and appeared unto many.
Those who resurrected with Christ in Mt.27:52, were
those whom
the spirit of Christ had returned to in the past, while
Christs body
lay in the tomb for three and a half days. Christ saved a
multitude
of Saints which were previously lost until Christ
returned in the spirit
to save them. Once the types of the past are understood,
the anti-types
of the future become clear. The Christ (Yahshua)
of 2,000 years ago
typifies the latter day Lamb with the Seven Seals. The
multitude who
resurrected with Christ typify the 200,000,000 Horses (Bride;
feminine)
and HorseMEN (Lamb; masculine) of Rev.9:3,14-16.
The same spirit
which dwelled in Christ 2,000 years ago, is the same
Spirit of Prophecy
given to the latter day Lamb. The Apostles are past types
of the Four
Beasts which are ROUND ABOUT the throne. The Four Beasts
ROUND ABOUT the throne are anti-types of the multitude of
Apostles
who resurrected with Christ.
The First OF the Firstfruits gathered from the living,
is descriptive
of the Bride (Four Beasts ROUND ABOUT the throne).
The
120 in the upper room of Acts 1:15; 2:1, typify the one
group of
Firstfruits (Fellowservants) who are gathered from
the last generation
of the living by the Chosen Vessel with the Remaining
Bride. The Four
Beasts ROUND ABOUT the throne represent the First OF the
Firstfruits
who are also gathered from every new testament
generation. The one
group of Firstfruits (Fellowservants) are gathered
by the Chosen Vessel
with the Remaining Bride before the Sixth Seal, and are
typified by the
120 in the upper room of Acts 1:15; 2:1. The Firstfruits (Fellowservants
and 144,000) are represented by the Twenty-four
Elders. The Fruit
harvest of Lev.23:39 symbolizes the Great Multitude, who
are gathered
after the Sixth Seal by the Firstfruits.
1Cor.10:10,11, Neither murmur ye, as
some of them also murmured,
and were destroyed of the destroyer (Christ; Ex.12:23;
Rev.6:8; 9:11).
Now all these things happened unto them for our (latter
day people)
ensamples, and they are written for our admonition upon
whom the ends
of the world are come.
The events of the past relating to Gods people
are types and
ensamples (examples) of the latter day events
according to
prophecy. The Book of Revelation points us back to the
old
testament scriptures which are to be fulfilled in the
latter days
(our day). All the prophecies which are written in
the Word of
God concern the Messiah (Lamb; Michael) and the
Chosen
Vessel (Gabriel). The Spirit of Prophecy, states
that the volume
(all) of the book (scriptures) is written of
the Messiah, see Ps.40:7.
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