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The Message to the Seven Churches

The Message to the Seven Churches is session twenty-three in our series on Understanding the Book of Revelation. We left the message to the seven churches to the very end of this series because when we understand the wedding then Christ's message to the seven churches has a whole new impact and meaning. When Christ is standing among the seven candlesticks he is dressed in the garments of a Groom and He is walking among the seven churches seeking out His Bride.

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What is the Book of the Revelation all about? The Book of the Revelation describes the events that are to take place as Christ unveils the divine mysteries which God the Father gave to Him (Christ) for the purpose of revealing them to us, His bond servants.

[THIS IS] the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries]. God gave it to Him to disclose and make known to His bond servants certain things which must shortly and speedily come to pass in their entirety. And He sent and communicated it through His angel (messenger) to His bond servant John,

This being the case, at the disclosure (or revealing) of each mystery, the veil is removed, or in other words, the seal has come off; hence a scroll that was sealed with seven seals.

And I saw lying on the open hand of Him Who was seated on the throne a scroll (book) written within and on the back, closed and sealed with seven seals;

As the revelation of each mystery comes forth, they are like the trunks of great trees coming forth from within the Word of God fed with the illumination of the Spirit and they burst forth into full blossom as the Book of the Revelation unfolds in its entirety. To use picture words, it is like gazing upon the Man standing among the myrtle trees.

During the night I had a vision—and there before me was a man riding a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.

As Christ unveils the divine mysteries, that God the Father gave to Him for the purpose of revealing them to us (His bond servants), then the illumination of the mysteries brings us to a place where we can see them intertwined in the visions of John and the understanding of John's visions unfold. Therefore, the Book of Revelation becomes a "scroll" that is written within and on the back and the spiritual knowledge and illumination is given into the hands of those that are His own!

And I saw lying on the open hand of Him Who was seated on the throne a scroll (book) written within and on the back, closed and sealed with seven seals;

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