Season 5 Podcast 99 Book of Revelation Ch 4 D verses 8-11, “One in Us.”

Season 5 Podcast 99 Book of Revelation Ch 4 D verses 8-11, “One in Us.”

John further describes the four beasts.

Revelation 4:8 

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

Wings symbolize power and extreme mobility. Eyes represent knowledge and truth. “They rest not day and night” represents unlimited power and energy. Images are often ambiguous and represent more than one thing. Such is the above. As discussed last week, the four beasts each represent an attribute of Christ; therefore, on the one hand, we have Christ before the Father saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.” One thing that Christ repeatedly taught while on earth was that he was here to do the will of the Father in everything. He never violated a commandment of the Father. The image of John emphasizes their relationship. You have the Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, a perfect being, omniscient and omnipotent, worshiping the Father for he has been given all that the Father has. And in turn you have Christ who is being worshiped. The phrase, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come” symbolize both the Father and the Son. They are one. What is Christ asking of us? We find the answer in the Intercessory Prayer.

John 17:18-26

“As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

What Christ said is astonishing. Those are perhaps some of the hardest concepts to accept, that we too may be one with the Father and the Son as they are one, that as the Father gave the Son all that he had, the Son shall also give those who believe on him, keep his commandments, and endure to the end all that he has. That is the entire purpose of God, captured in the image of John above. What other purpose would God have in creating man and earth. What other reason would Christ die for our sins? It is all for one reason and one reason alone, defined so clearly and succinctly by Christ Himself.

Matthew 5:48

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” 

We have the perfect model. Just as Christ became like the Father, He made it possible for us to become like him. That is the purpose of life. Is it so hard to believe that the purpose of God is to bring happiness to his children? There is no other way than the one described above that such a miracle can happen.  In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the father said to the faithful sovbbn, “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.”