The New Song - Part 5 of 6
Revelation 15:2-4 And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested.”
Standing on the sea of glass in this scene in Revelation are all of the saints from Adam to today. At the sounding of the 7th trumpet, the "mystery of God" is complete:
Revelation 10:7 but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.
Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”
This is the last trumpet. What is the mystery of God? It is the rapture...the gathering together of the Bride on the sea of glass...for the first time eye to eye with the Groom. This is the "walking down the aisle" of the Bride. It is the marriage...the union of the Firstborn to His Bride. That Jesus would freely share His inheritance bought with His perfect sacrifice with anyone who would say "yes" to His love is the mystery of God...it is the wedding of the Lamb, which starts at the rapture!:
I Corinthians 2:7-9 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
I Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Ephesians 5:31-32 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
The song of the wedding is what the Bride is singing on the sea of glass. This is the song of Moses. The pure and spotless Bride of the last generation, the third transitional generation, along with all those who passed into heaven before her, will stand together with the Groom and sing the song of the first transitional generation...the song they sang as they supernaturally crossed the Red Sea on dry ground! Can you imagine being in the same company as Moses singing the song of His generation!
To understand the Revelation of Jesus Christ, it is ESSENTIAL to understand Exodus. The same elements of the Exodus from Egypt will be present throughout the events of Revelation! These are intentionally connected to the Exodus so that we might understand Revelation. Unfortunately, modern teaching of Revelation rarely connects it to Exodus...which results in myths being fabricated to explain away the intensity. If you know anything about the Exodus story, you know the intensity was real and quite intentional. God used the intensity to reveal to Pharaoh that agreement with God was wise. Many of the plagues of Egypt will be intentionally repeated in the trumpet and bowl judgments!
Here are some facets to the Exodus story that are essential for the Bride to understand. The end time 24 hour prayer to music movement...or the "new song" as it is described in the Psalms, Isaiah, and Revelation...will create lands of Goshen:
1. The plagues in Egypt, where those in rebellion to God lived, did not affect Goshen, where God's people lived. The Israelites had to take some steps in agreement with God (the Passover), but God was using the plagues to bring agreement. If you are already in agreement with God, you don't "need" correction. God is a good and precise Father...not a sloppy painter carelessly releasing dangerous things on the land. We agree with Him now in building the "Tabernacle of David" in our lands...that is essential (Amos 9/Joel 2/Luke 18), like applying the blood to the door posts...but He WILL make a difference between those places that agree with Him and the locations that ignore His formula to weather this generation:
Exodus 8:22-23 And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land. I will make a difference between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be.” ’ ”
2. God's plagues on Egypt grew progressively worse, and were a well-designed and thought-out plan to use the least intense means necessary to reach the Egyptians to agree with God without violating their free will. As Pharaoh resisted and chose to harden his heart, God helped him get what he chose: a hard heart. Everyone gets what they want in the end...including God. God gave the entire plan to Moses before he ever went before Pharaoh:
Exodus 4:28-31 So Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight of the people. So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
The Israelites didn't fear God's plan to bring judgment in the land they lived! They celebrated the plan as a sign that God knew their plight!
If you look at the Revelation judgments as negative for you, you need to begin a conversation with God about that because you are either unclear about a) God's power to protect you, or b) God's desire to protect you. The Israelites saw the judgments as a good thing, and we are supposed to, as well!
3. God didn't release judgment directly, but instead used Aaron and Moses...the people of Israel...to release them. This is a Biblical principal that is woven into creation. God uses people to accomplish His plans for the earth. He refuses to violate this principle, because to do so would violate His command that man would have dominion over the earth:
Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Psalms 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord ’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.
When God wants to do something on the earth, He looks for a person to agree with Him:
Ezekiel 22:30-31 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God .
The worshiping/praying Bride is the end-time Moses and Aaron who will release the judgments in agreement with Jesus until He returns and sets up His kingdom on earth as the Man Christ Jesus. This is the clear story of the Book of Revelation. As the Bride matures, she will walk in greater measures of authority.
Two people, true leaders of the Bride, will release the judgments of God at will from the center of Jerusalem. These two end-time prophets, members of the end-time worshiping Bride, will protect the geographic locations of the Bride as the enemy forces try to attack the towns of the Bride. Right in the heart of antichrist's home base, these two natural-bodied people will speak and release the judgments geographically...to protect the night and day worshiping Bride!:
Revelation 11:3-6 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
The Bride is going to walk in increasing measures of authority as she agrees with each other and Jesus more and more. That is the point of the Book of Revelation! Jesus is looking for a Bride who, when the world looks at her, they see Jesus! Just like He said "when you have seen me, you have seen the Father"...He is going to have a Bride who can say "if you have seen me, you have seen my Groom!" This begins as we agree with Jesus that His judgments ARE His love!
John 17:20-23 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Standing on the sea of glass in this scene in Revelation are all of the saints from Adam to today. At the sounding of the 7th trumpet, the "mystery of God" is complete:
Revelation 10:7 but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.
Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”
This is the last trumpet. What is the mystery of God? It is the rapture...the gathering together of the Bride on the sea of glass...for the first time eye to eye with the Groom. This is the "walking down the aisle" of the Bride. It is the marriage...the union of the Firstborn to His Bride. That Jesus would freely share His inheritance bought with His perfect sacrifice with anyone who would say "yes" to His love is the mystery of God...it is the wedding of the Lamb, which starts at the rapture!:
I Corinthians 2:7-9 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
I Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Ephesians 5:31-32 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
The song of the wedding is what the Bride is singing on the sea of glass. This is the song of Moses. The pure and spotless Bride of the last generation, the third transitional generation, along with all those who passed into heaven before her, will stand together with the Groom and sing the song of the first transitional generation...the song they sang as they supernaturally crossed the Red Sea on dry ground! Can you imagine being in the same company as Moses singing the song of His generation!
To understand the Revelation of Jesus Christ, it is ESSENTIAL to understand Exodus. The same elements of the Exodus from Egypt will be present throughout the events of Revelation! These are intentionally connected to the Exodus so that we might understand Revelation. Unfortunately, modern teaching of Revelation rarely connects it to Exodus...which results in myths being fabricated to explain away the intensity. If you know anything about the Exodus story, you know the intensity was real and quite intentional. God used the intensity to reveal to Pharaoh that agreement with God was wise. Many of the plagues of Egypt will be intentionally repeated in the trumpet and bowl judgments!
Here are some facets to the Exodus story that are essential for the Bride to understand. The end time 24 hour prayer to music movement...or the "new song" as it is described in the Psalms, Isaiah, and Revelation...will create lands of Goshen:
1. The plagues in Egypt, where those in rebellion to God lived, did not affect Goshen, where God's people lived. The Israelites had to take some steps in agreement with God (the Passover), but God was using the plagues to bring agreement. If you are already in agreement with God, you don't "need" correction. God is a good and precise Father...not a sloppy painter carelessly releasing dangerous things on the land. We agree with Him now in building the "Tabernacle of David" in our lands...that is essential (Amos 9/Joel 2/Luke 18), like applying the blood to the door posts...but He WILL make a difference between those places that agree with Him and the locations that ignore His formula to weather this generation:
Exodus 8:22-23 And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land. I will make a difference between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be.” ’ ”
2. God's plagues on Egypt grew progressively worse, and were a well-designed and thought-out plan to use the least intense means necessary to reach the Egyptians to agree with God without violating their free will. As Pharaoh resisted and chose to harden his heart, God helped him get what he chose: a hard heart. Everyone gets what they want in the end...including God. God gave the entire plan to Moses before he ever went before Pharaoh:
Exodus 4:28-31 So Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight of the people. So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
The Israelites didn't fear God's plan to bring judgment in the land they lived! They celebrated the plan as a sign that God knew their plight!
If you look at the Revelation judgments as negative for you, you need to begin a conversation with God about that because you are either unclear about a) God's power to protect you, or b) God's desire to protect you. The Israelites saw the judgments as a good thing, and we are supposed to, as well!
3. God didn't release judgment directly, but instead used Aaron and Moses...the people of Israel...to release them. This is a Biblical principal that is woven into creation. God uses people to accomplish His plans for the earth. He refuses to violate this principle, because to do so would violate His command that man would have dominion over the earth:
Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Psalms 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord ’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.
When God wants to do something on the earth, He looks for a person to agree with Him:
Ezekiel 22:30-31 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God .
The worshiping/praying Bride is the end-time Moses and Aaron who will release the judgments in agreement with Jesus until He returns and sets up His kingdom on earth as the Man Christ Jesus. This is the clear story of the Book of Revelation. As the Bride matures, she will walk in greater measures of authority.
Two people, true leaders of the Bride, will release the judgments of God at will from the center of Jerusalem. These two end-time prophets, members of the end-time worshiping Bride, will protect the geographic locations of the Bride as the enemy forces try to attack the towns of the Bride. Right in the heart of antichrist's home base, these two natural-bodied people will speak and release the judgments geographically...to protect the night and day worshiping Bride!:
Revelation 11:3-6 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
The Bride is going to walk in increasing measures of authority as she agrees with each other and Jesus more and more. That is the point of the Book of Revelation! Jesus is looking for a Bride who, when the world looks at her, they see Jesus! Just like He said "when you have seen me, you have seen the Father"...He is going to have a Bride who can say "if you have seen me, you have seen my Groom!" This begins as we agree with Jesus that His judgments ARE His love!
John 17:20-23 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
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