The Great Redeemer Pt.2
RUTH 4:9-11a
9 ¶ And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
11a And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses.
REVELATION 5:7-8
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. (This is the same scene we have just read in Ruth replayed in the book of Revelation)
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 odours, which are the prayers of saints.
We notice that elders were present as witnesses for the redemption of Elimelech’s lost estate, and in Revelation 5, we also find that there were elders present when the Lamb took the book of redemption for Adam’s fallen estate – in both cases it is speaking of the redemption by a kinsman for the loss of family inheritance – in both cases it required a kinsman redeemer.
The Great Redeemer Pt.2
Last week we saw how that in Revelation 4, that these elders were worshiping God from their perspective of God as a being a great creator… And He certainly was that.
REVELATION 4:10-11
10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
So their worship is being motivated from a deep appreciation of God as being the great creator – but when we get to Revelation 5 (after the book of redemption had been taken), then we see that the motivation of their worship is changed to an appreciation of God as the great redeemer – something has taken place from Revelation 4 to Revelation 5, the seven sealed book wasn’t opened yet in Revelation 4, but it was in Revelation 5 – and so this was the difference, it was the opening of the seven seals that released the fullness of the revelation of God as the Great Redeemer.
REVELATION 5:7-9
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
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 odours, which are the prayers of saints.
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;
Brother Branham in the message “The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals” (of Revelation Ch:4 and Ch:5), he refers to this event of the lamb taking the book in Revelation CH:5 as “the most sublime thing in the Scripture”
** The way people see God is the way they are going to relate to God.
If you just see God as a person who is All-powerful, and who is a great creator, then you only want Him to do things for you, and you are only interested in Him when trouble comes along, and then you run to Him: “Lord, I want healing, Lord, I need some money; Lord, I want my way over here, Lord, I want a husband, Lord, I want a wife, Lord, I want to pass my exam, Lord I want a better job with more pay” – all those things are good, and He is the provider of every good thing. But many people are not really interested in what God wants for them, they just want things from Him to work out for their own personal plan that they have for themselves.
**But when you realize that God is thinking in the realm of the Eternal. He’s saying, “I am eternal, and I don’t live in a temporal realm, so the people who will be in eternity with me, I want to do things so that all through eternity they will understand me, they will be able to have fellowship with me of what my character is at a deeper level, and so I will have to make myself known to them of what I am from my eternal thoughts, because the things that I want to talk about are eternal things.” There are greater things that God has in store for us than the things of the temporal life.
**God is the great creator, but in that creation God is writing the mystery of redemption:
**He first wrote it in the stars – because the first sign is the Virgo, and the last sign is Leo the Lion – He is the first and the last.
Aries – the Lamb who is coming to be slain.
Libra – Christ will be weighed in the balances to prove that He was the sinless Lamb of God.
Aquarius – Christ will be poured out as the living water, the Holy Spirit.
And so God first wrote it all in the language of the stars, and that is why they declare the glory of God as the bible tells us.
**So we are showing that when creation is being brought into existence, it is with the thought of redemption, because He wanted to reveal His great redeeming love.
*We want to look at some of the key statements in the Breach message concerning this book of redemption.
THE.BREACH.BETWEEN.THE.SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES.AND.THE.SEVEN.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317E
74-2 {40} … At the sounding of the seventh church age, the last church age, all the loose ends that through these church ages have been probed at, will be wound up together. And when the Seals are broke and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea with a rainbow over His head. Now remember, this seventh angel is on earth at the time of this coming.
He is being very clear that this event of this coming of Christ of Revelation 10:1 (as this mighty angel descending from heaven with the little book open) takes place while this 7th angel messenger of Revelation 10:7 is on the earth.
*Because as John the Baptist was on earth at the same time of Christ’s first coming so that John could introduced Christ to the elect of that day, so must the seventh angel be on earth at the same time as the revealing of the Son of Man ministry in this day in order to identify Him and point Him out to the elected of whom would receive Him in this hour. If he hadn’t point him out, we would have never know Him of who He was in this day.
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76-3 {57… But those mysteries are promised to be revealed in the end time. It's little loose ends that these great warriors has come on the scene, such as Irenaeus, and Martin (Saint Martin), and Polycarp, and the different ones; and Luther, and Wesley, and all of these (See?), as--how they have come and just lived long enough to--to kind of bring a light and shine it, but they left many things in--in the darkness.
Along come the Pentecostal age, like the Lutheran age, and they run out on limbs. But still all right; don't say they wasn't right. They were, but there's loose ends left that can't be explained. But then in... Why? The Seals hasn't been broke to thoroughly reveal what these things are. See?
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77-1 {61} But then in the last age, all these mysteries are to be solved and handed out, and the Seals are to be opened by the Lamb and revealed to the Church, and then time is no more. See?
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92-1 {152} … From Genesis to Revelations, a complete plan of redemption is revealed in these Seven Seals. Oh, it's an important time. God help us to get it. See?
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92-3 {154} … And John, in the Spirit, standing up here in heaven... He's just been lifted up now from the Church Ages (See?), saw the Church Ages, and then he was taken up in the 4th chapter. He said, "Come up higher; I'm going to show you things that will come."
92-4 {156} And he saw One setting upon the throne with this Book in His hand, in His right hand. Think of it. Now, and then in this Book was the title deed to redemption. And it was sealed with Seven Seals. And then a Angel came forth, a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who was worthy to open the Book, to take the Book; Who was able to open the Seals; Who was able to open this Book?" See? The Angel asked it; John saw it, and he said, "Now, Who's worthy? Let Him..." Oh, my, maybe I'm just feeling this this a way. "But, let Him," said the Angel, "let Him..." Here is the Book of Redemption. Here is the plan of redemption. Here is the only way you'll ever be redeemed, for here is the title deed to redemption of the whole heavens and earth.
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104-4 {249} Now, oh, the whole creation lays in His hand now, on which the whole plan of redemption is sealed by Seven mysterious Seals in this Book that He took...
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106-4 {266} The Seals was broke. Why? In the last Church Age to reveal these truths. Why? The Lamb broke the Seals and revealed them to His church in order to collect His subjects for His Kingdom, His Bride. See? Oh, my.
He wants to bring His subjects to Him now. What is it? Out of the dust of the earth, out of the bottom of the sea, out of the pits, out of everywhere and every place; out of--out of the regions of the dark, out of paradise, wherever they may be, He will call and they'll answer. Amen. Amen. He will call, and they'll answer.
He come to get His subjects. He revealed His secrets, and they saw it;
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111-2 {299} … But the first thing that represented that redemption, come the Lamb that had been slain from the foundation of the world. And He took the Book (Glory.) opened the Book, and tore off the Seals, and sent it down to the earth to His seventh angel to reveal it to His people.
The contents of what had been kept a secret has now been made known to a people of the living decedents of whom are to receive the inheritance of original title that was lost by Adam – it is not revealed to everyone, it is only made known to the living decedents of whom God knows have a right to the inheritance.
***So then there has to be a people in this hour that see what has been revealed by the opening of the seven seals of the entire plan of redemption , because when a people “see it”, then the prophecy is complete, and the literal inheritance can be restored, but not before the reading of the will of the testator has been read and made known to those of whom are beneficiaries of the will, and once that will is read our and understood, only then can there be a resurrection of the dead and a rapture and a millennium of what Adam lost inheritance restored. This is what the great Redeemer did – the only way he could do it was to become a kinsman to man in order to redeem man.
*Brother Branham at his opening prayer in the 5th seal, he says, “O Lamb of God, come forward, we pray. We call on You, Lord, the great Redeemer. Come forth and show us Your plan of redemption that's been hid through the years,
**So this great mystery and plan of redemption that was foreordained by God before the foundation of the world - God was going to unfold it little by little from the beginning with Adam and down from age to age and from patriarch to patriarch right down until the opening of the seven seals of when the entire plan would be fully understood by an end time elected people.
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90-6 {145} And the whole thing here, the Seven Seals got the mysteries of God from the foundation of the world all sealed up in there, and revealed by Seven different Seals; that if God willing--let Him--let us pull back these Seals and look down through the Book and find out what it's all about. See? Oh, I hope we have a great time.
There the mystery of redemption is sealed until... This Book could not be broken until the last angel's message. The scroll's there, we knowed it was there. We know that it was redemption. We believed it was redemption.
**Picking up from last week…
*God would show a little part of it in Adam, a little part of it in Joseph, a part in Moses, a part in Abraham, a part in Boaz, a part in David, a part in Solomon. God would spread His great mystery of redemption across the entire bible and across the entire history of man down throughout the years of time.
He would purposely leave out a certain part of it in the book of Ruth with Boaz, and then put that missing part in Jeremiah.
**We know that Boaz is a type of Christ, but Boaz can’t reveal all of Christ by Himself, Boaz is only showing a part of Him, because part is revealed in Boaz, part is revealed in Joseph, part is revealed in Moses, part is revealed in Abraham, part is revealed in David – on and on.
**All the way down through the bible, God was slowly letting out the mystery of Himself as the Great Redeemer.
*But then at the end of this last age, He brings it all together, and the whole Bible becomes clear to a selective group of people of whom will be able to see the entire plan of God, and of whom have received back this title deed of the ownership of what Adam lost by the way of the deed being read out to them and by their names being shown to them as being mentioned in the title of the deed. It’s been the great redeemer that we owe this all too, it has been Him all along, showing Himself from Genesis to Revelation – this is the revelation that God wants to place in each of our hearts at this time.