Mark shows Him as the Ox, the hard-working Servant Who died for us and carried our sins far away down to hell to dump them on the Devil. Matthew ignores the stable scene as Kings are not born in stables. Visited as a two-year-old Child by wise men. Matthew presents Jesus as the Lion, the King of the Jews, the Son of David. The 4 Gospels tell us the story of the cross. Then Jesus came to clean up Adam's mess as the last Adam or perfect Man. God's Big Plan has to include both the church and Israel. Twelve patriarchs from the Old Testament and 12 apostles from the New Testament. The throne of God is surrounded by four beasts and 24 elders.Īnd round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold. God used His Holy Spirit to fight back in four different ways.Īnd the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. Then at the end, Satan unites all three into one awful pale-coloured or sickly combination to infiltrate the end-time church with spiritual death. The three best ways of undermining Christians were the antichrist spirits of Religious deception, political power, and Big Business demonology. Satan has a trinity of tricks that he inflicted on the church during different parts of its history to undermine the influence of the Bible in people's lives. God was going to have to work in the church in different ways because the situation on earth would keep changing as history unfolded. These are the manifestation of God's Spirit as He guides the church during the 2000 years of its history. "Before" means that they know the future. 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.Įyes speak of intelligence. God sits on the throne in Chapter 4 but His Spirit which comes from the midst of the throne is manifest in four distinctly different ways.
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