Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

214 Now, break the Seals and release all the mysteries to them, to the seventh angel, whose Message is to reveal all the mysteries of God.

The mysteries of God lays in these Seven Seals.

See? That’s what He said here.

All the mysteries lays in these Seven Seals.

215 And the Lamb comes forth now, from being a Mediator between God and man.

He becomes a Lion.

And when He becomes a Lion, He takes the Book.

That’s His rights.

God has held It, the mystery, but now the Lamb comes.

216 Nobody could take the Book.

It’s still in the hands of God.

No pope, priest, whatever might be, they can’t take (no) the Book.

The Seven Seals hasn’t been revealed.

See?

217 But when, the Mediator, when His work is done as an Intercessor, He comes forth.

And John…The elder said, “He’s a Lion.”

And He comes forth.

Watch Him.

Oh, my! See?

He comes forth to take the Book, now watch, to reveal the mysteries of God, that others has guessed at, in all these denominational ages.

(to guess is to presume.

venture without authority)

218 See, then, the seventh angel.

If this Book, mysteries, is the Word of God, the seventh angel has to be a prophet, for the Word of God to come to.

No priests, popes, or anything else, can get It; the Word don’t come to such.

The Word of God comes only to a prophet, always.

Malachi 4 promised such.

And when he come forth, he would take the mysteries of God, where the church had got all scrupled up in all these denominations, “And restore the Faith of the children back to the fathers.”

And then the world judgment would strike, and the earth would be burnt.

And then the righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the wicked, in the Millennium.

219 Do you understand it now?

[Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]

All right.

220 Others had guessed at, in the denominational age.

But, see, he must be this man, the seventh angel of…Revelation 10:1-4 is a…

The seventh angel has the mysteries of God given to him, and finishes all the mysteries that’s been left off, down through the denominational ages.

(Break)

If someone came to you and asked you, “why do you follow a prophet, I follow Jesus” What would you say?

Because Jesus is the Word, and the Word comes to the Prophets.

1. Are There New Testament Prophets?

2. Why do we need a prophet when we already have the Bible?

3. Is one Prophet as good as another?

Are there New Testament Prophets?

The old covenant is finished.

This does not mean that prophets ceased, but the prophecy of the coming of Christ was over.

The prophets role changed to a preacher.

All New Testament Prophets are preachers.

Period.

Ver. 13.

Prophesied until John.—John was “the last representative of those who belonged to the prophetic period of expectancy” (Wendt).

John may fairly be regarded as the clasp of the two Testaments (Reynolds).

Cessation of prophecy was an after the fact doctrine given by religion once it was organized.

The Babylonian Rabbis taught the same thing, but John came along.

God interprets His own Word.

We know there are prophets at the end time, because there are False Prophets.

If there are false, there must also be real.

Jesus Himself was a Prophet.

Prophets were common in the New Testament Church.

New Testament Prophets still have Thus Saith the Lord.

The Apostle John was a Prophet.

2. Why do we need a prophet when we already have the Bible?

There were some things

hidden in Scripture that were to be revealed in the New Testament period, by a prophet.

Certain other things were sealed up until the time of the end.

That prophet is known as the 7th angel.

He doesn’t do anything without revealing it to a prophet.

3. Is One Prophet as Good as Another?

God makes a difference between prophets.

Why William Branham and not Joseph Smith, or some pentecostal prophet?

Because He’s the one who’s ministry fulfilled these Scriptures.

Oral Roberts did not, neither did Billy Graham.

There is a difference in between prophets.

Jesus said John was more than a prophet.

A True Prophet will always point to Christ:

Elijah was promised again.

Ver.

11.—Elias truly shall first come (ἔρχεται, cometh).

Many of the best manuscripts and editions omit “first.”

The Vulgate has merely, Elias quidem venturus est.

It is probably inserted in our text from the parallel passage in Mark, where it is certainly genuine.

Christ is here alluding to his own second coming, which shall be preceded by the appearance of Elijah in person.

This seems to be the plain meaning of the prophecy in Malachi, and of Christ’s announcement, and is confirmed by St. John’s statement concerning the two witnesses (Rev.

11:3, 6).

That the paragraph cannot refer to John the Baptist is plain from the tenses used in this verse contrasted with those in the following.

To regard ver.

12 as simply a correction of ver. 10 is to do violence to language, and to leave one-half of Malachi’s prediction unexplained.

Restore (ἀποκατασήσει) all things.

The event is still future, and was not fulfilled in the Baptist’s preaching, however deep and extensive may have been its influence.

Of course, John in a partial degree reproduced the character and acts of Elijah, directing the people to the eternal principles of justice and righteousness, to a reformation of religion and morals; but he could not be said to have reconstituted, re-established all things; though it is possible that, had his message been received and acted upon, some such effects would have been produced.

How and in what degree Elijah, again appearing and living on earth, will effect this great achievement, we know not.

We can only fall back on the ancient prophecy, which affirms that “he shall turn the heart of the fathers to [or, ‘with’] the children, and the heart of the children to [or, ‘and’] their fathers” (Mal.

4:6), and expect that in some way, known unto God, he shall convert one and all, young and old, unto the Lord; or unite the Jews who are the fathers in the faith to Christians who are their children, and thus embrace Jew and Gentile in one fold under one Shepherd.

Ver.

11.

Elias truly shall first come.—Cometh

(K.V.).

Our Lord’s words are obviously enigmatic in their form, and, as such, admit of two very different interpretations.

Taken literally, as they have been by very many both in earlier and later times, they seem to say that Elijah shall come in person before the yet future day of the Lord, the great second advent of the Christ.

So, it has been argued, the prophecy of Mal.

4:5 shall yet have a literal fulfilment, and John the Baptist when he confessed that he was not Elijah (John 1:21) was rightly expecting his appearance.

The angel that spoke of John’s birth is very clear that John the Baptist only fulfilled part of Malachi 4.