This portion takes us to the little book of the Revelation of Christ and chapter ten in this book. Where we find this mystery spoken of as it relates to 18.09 and my shared statements there.
Here is what Revelation 10 says; 1-7, 8-11:6 "Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down." And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by Him Who lives forever and ever, Who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as HE announced to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7).
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey (Jeremiah 15:16; Ezekiel 2:8, 3:1-3)." And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings." Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of GOD and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands that stand before the LORD of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire." Now consider what is said here.
Our next mystery (19) is found in 2Thessalonians 2 verse 7 dealing with "lawlessness," we shall now progress to it; 2:7 of 1-12, 13-15 "Now concerning the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word of a messenger, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the LORD has come. (remember that these saints were in the active stages of saint development of the revelation of Christ in you) Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first (this day has been some 1945 years or so since its inception, and requiring saints maturity as Christ-ones), and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction (of Daniel 7:25 of 23-27, 8:25 of 18-26, 11:36 of 36-39), who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple (the inner sanctuary) of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work (Revelation 17:5, 7). Only He who now restrains it will (KJV says let, that is to actively impede, restrain) do so until He is out of the way (making those who grieve Him earthy by their wickedness). And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the LORD Jesus will kill with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan (the prince of the power of the air) with all (lying) power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be (remain) saved. Therefore GOD sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But we ought always to give thanks to GOD for you, brothers beloved by the LORD, because GOD chose you as the first-fruits to be saved, through sanctification by His Spirit and belief in the truth. To this HE called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions (not of the religious world) that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter."
I will go to Revelation 17 for a moment or two to get its picture with it's mystery spoken of twice;
Revelation 17:5 and 7 of 1-7 "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute (mans false religious systems that hold the keys to finance, politics, and yes the religious forms themselves, 2:22, 18:3, 9) who is seated on many waters (the worlds populations or the nations), with whom the kings (governments) of the earth have committed sexual immorality (3:10, 17:8), and with the wine (blood) of whose sexual immorality (14:8) the dwellers on earth have become drunk." And he carried me away in the Spirit (spirit) into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads (Matthew 13:33 the leaven of false religion) and ten horns (governments). The woman (Ezekiel 28:13ff) was arrayed in purple and scarlet (Matthew 27:28), and adorned with gold (Jeremiah 51:7 of 5-11) and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery (2Thessaloins 2:7): "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations." And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints (the world wide religious systems), the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly. But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her."
The worlds systems of religion that keep the Truth of GODS Gospel as a secret and as a one day hoped for event. For Jesus rose as He returned a Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, this is recorded in Acts and in many of Paul's writings, including Hebrews.
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