Letters to the Churches Part 7

Misquoted Philippians 4:13 and the Context of Contentment

Okay, we are going to continue our study of the book of Revelation and in studying the book of Revelation. We're also trying to you know Undo a lot of confusion that is out there now real quick before we got before we get into that I did want to use this occasion to mention that our epistle text today.

There there is a off misquoted Portion of Philippians in our epistle text today and the the text is I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me? It's so bad how how horribly this particular text gets misquoted that There's a meme running around the internet that says I can do all things through a verse taken out of context.

Which I think is not an inappropriate way of talking about it but. So when it talks about I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. There is a context to this and I always like to remind people that.

That you know, it's context context context when it comes to these things real quick and let me find this. Put this down. Okay, four to thirteen. All right, there it is. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

So, you know to kind of give you an idea of what the awkwardness looks like. So you get two Super Bowl teams? They're gonna go head-to-head and in the week before the American Super Bowl. You you have a bunch of trash-talking going on and and you can see how the the athletes are Motivating themselves to have their a game come Super Bowl Sunday and and so.

As as is often the case, you know on American sports teams. You have some guys who are Christians who are outspoken about these things. These are the guys that if they're past the ball and they cross the end zone and make a touchdown Rather than spike the ball.

They take a knee and they point up to heaven to let everybody know that God gets the glory. So when it comes time then for the trash-talking one guy who's a Christian on one team will say We're going to defeat the other team because Christ it's through him I can you know He's the one who strengthens me so that I can do all things through him and then what ends up happening Is is that they cut they cut to the next team the other team and they've got a Christian on his team and he says I?

Can do all things to Christ who strengthens me and we're going to slaughter the other team. So now you have to ask the question Which team is Jesus going to allow to slaughter the other team because of Philippians 413.

Bruce you look like you're in pain. I Know the plans I have for you says the Lord plans for good, you know Bruce is still in therapy for those of you online. We're in and apparently I've triggered him and this is going to cost him three more sessions, so.

But you get the idea. So here's the issue it's it's an out-of-context verse this verse is not saying that you're going to have the ability to Defeat your other, you know to defeat the the slay the dragons in your life overcome Adversity adversities in a particular sense and that this is a promise that you're gonna be have Health and wealth and prosperity and stuff like that.

So this is a sloganized verse and So just by way of going back through our epistle text, I think which is going to be helpful. It says rejoicing the Lord always and you're gonna note that after Paul Has given us the gospel has absolutely decimated the idea that self-righteousness attains salvation for us and and just Obliterates it even calling his own self-righteousness as a Jew and a Pharisee scuba line, which is a joyfully awful word in the In the Greek which basically means a fresh lawn turd that I mean that's what scuba line is.

He says it is works under the Mosaic Covenant. What's that? You know it because you cannot be saved by your your righteousness. And so after doing all of this then Paul then Pointing to the fact that the reason why Christians do what they do is because they are what they are.

Then it gives these admonitions to us as Christians. And so technically some of this is going to fall under what we call third use of the law. And if you don't know what I mean by third use when we talk about God's law.

There are three valid uses for God's law. And the first use is the one that is talked about in relation to what we call civil righteousness. So civil righteousness works along the lines of the government has been given God's law For the purpose of punishing evildoers and so the law curbs evil and it is the it's the government that in in curbing evil Exercises the sword of God and exercises his wrath.

So first uses is the use for the purpose of punishing evildoers and cup curbing evil and this is a good thing if you don't believe me that this is a good thing ask the store owners in Wisconsin who had their Their their their businesses burned down, you know.

All the places that lost property and other things like that the Walmart stores that were cleaned out during you know the the reign of lawlessness that happened during the summer here in the United States lawlessness is a terrible thing and And we cannot operate under lawlessness.

In fact, it creates all kinds of anxiety and causes society to break down. So first use of the law is a good thing. Second use is the primary use when we talk about the theological uses and This is the use that says that the law convicts us of our sin, so second use of the law is and you're going to note that there's a phrase that those in the Reformation portion of The spectrum of the church within Protestant Reformation and you know.

And the Reformation as a whole what they will say is they have a saying in its Lex Semper accusa. And that is that the law always accuses now. That's not the only thing the law does so the second use of the law shows you that you're a sinner.

For the purpose of convicting you of your sin and thereby convicting you of your sin shows you your need for Christ. So that you you without that you don't have you don't have an understanding of what the gospel is at all because the gospel is The good news that Christ died for our sins and until that is really pushed to the point where you sit there and go.

Oh good grief. I'm an ungodly sinner. I need to be forgiven. You're not ready to hear the gospel. And so the second use of the law does that now a little bit of a note when I preach the law I do not have a dial.

Okay, so I can switch between second and what's called the third use so so when somebody expresses Says something that a pastor has to preach third use of the law. I My response is always my job is to preach a text and if the and and to preach the law that's in it.

How a Christian hears its first second use or third use that's gonna be all up to the Holy Spirit as far as I'm concerned. That's not my job and you'll note. We never end the sermons off with these are three easy things that you can do this week to obey God better.

That's just not gonna work. That's gonna that's gonna foster self-righteousness. So the second use of the law is the convicting use and then the third use of the law. Which is only for Christians the third use of the law shows us what a good work is and as Christians then you'll note that we there are portions of the epistles where we are admonished and encouraged and Maybe even provoked and pushed and nudged by the Apostle Paul or the writer of the pistols.

On to good works. Why is this necessary because you still have an old sinful Adam? Your sinful Adam didn't want to get up this morning your sinful Adam wanted to sleep in. Your sinful Adam didn't want to drive to church or log in or do all this other stuff.

You're sinful Adam wanted to get on Netflix after sleeping in till 11 and binge watch whatever the latest hit series is. Bruce says amen. All right, right. But see the thing is so as a result of that we are in constant conflict as Christians.

Yeah with our old Adam. So who we are in Christ a new person that we are in crisis come forth crisis brought it forth. But you still have your old sinful nature, which just makes the Christian life. So anyway, so when we get into a section like this.

You're gonna note that this is the stuff that really really encourages the new man that we are in Christ and your old your old sinful Adam is. Gonna hate this stuff. So that's part of the conflict, but we don't avoid it as a result.

No, we always preach it and teach it. So Paul after giving us the just great gospel Says rejoice in the Lord always I will say again rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everybody man. I wish more more church people would pay attention to that.

Because I have you ever noticed that sometimes church people can be the most unreasonable on the planet. You know just it's the weirdest thing. You remember Dana Carvey's church lady. Could it be Satan, you know?

Yeah, yeah, I might be saying that. Yes. So, yes, we do not bring glory to God by screaming at people with and holding up signs saying God hates you. Okay, you know I I remember years ago actually interviewed one of the ladies one of the major ladies from.

Yes, Shirley Phelps Roper from that particular Baptist Church. Yeah, and and I was doing long gospel with her and she hung up on me. So. Yeah, she got super mad when I pointed out that she was a sinner anyway.

Anyway, so let your reasonableness be known to everyone the Lord is at hand do not be anxious about anything. But in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

So, you know anxiety is a is basically meditated doubt. That's really what it is. Anxiety is a form of meditating doubt and not believing that God will meet your needs and. And and so anxiety oftentimes is running through your head the worst case scenario.

So I lost my job that means I'm gonna be eating Alpo. You know next week and living it, you know living out on the streets because God's not going to meet my need and worried about these things. That anxiety is again a met form of meditation and it's meditating on doubt and denial.

That God is going to keep his promises to give you your daily bread so it therefore what are we called to do by everything by prayer and supplication and I have to I have to emphasize this again due to the fact that there's all these people running around the landscape nowadays.

Decreeing and declaring things in the name of Jesus, which makes no sense. So, you know, so you have a need and so let's say you've lost your job and rather than humbly asking Christ Christ I've lost my job.

You say in your word that you'll meet our needs and you teach us to pray before our daily bread. So, please Lord give us this day our daily bread rather than do that. They stand up on a soapbox and start pointing their fingers and saying I I Command the spirit of poverty to depart from my house and all this nonsense.

What's the spirit of poverty? Where'd you find that thing in the scripture, you know? And and so what they're what they're doing is trying to Basically engage in what I would consider witchcraft, you know steal God's power and act on his behalf by decreeing and declaring.

But as Christians again, we are called to pray. And a supplication is just a humble asking of God. For what you need. All right, so with everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your watch this requests be made known to God request.

No decreeing no decreeing declaring no commanding. All right, so it's just humble so which when at the end of it you pray something like this. Well, not my will be done, but your will be Lord if it's your will.

Then you can do these things. Humbly making your requests known to God and then the peace of God which surpasses all understanding. Which comes through the gospel by the way will guard your hearts and minds in Christ.

Finally, whatever is true. What are you focusing in on? What are you thinking about? Whatever is true. Whatever is honorable. Whatever is just whatever is pure. Whatever is lovely. Whatever is commendable if there's any Excellence if there's anything worthy of praise think about these things.

So, you know that the the mind of a Christian meditates on truth on beauty on Excellence things that are worthy of praise. This is one of the reasons why doing fighting for the faith can be a total drudgery for me is because sampling all of that heresy is just.

It's the exact opposite of truth. It's these are lies. It's the exact opposite of excellence. It's it's Everything it's just there's nothing pure about it. And so the the impact that it has on me at times can be quite devastatingly negative.

So for me the joy is On a Sunday morning preaching the word Teaching from the scriptures. Yeah, this is my joy at my catechism classes on Thursday. That's a big deal for me, you know to be able to sit down with these different groups and open up the Word of God.

That's where that because this is pure. This is true. This is lovely. This is commendable God's Word is the heresy not so much. So you'll note that all right. And then you'll note then so what you've learned and received and heard and seen in me Practice these things and so, you know Paul holds himself up as a mature apostle as a mature Christian and and says I'm modeling these things for you and in in the men's Bible study on Saturday noted that this is a common thing that That Paul says the things I do model these things and he said there.

Well, we can't see the Apostle Paul. He's written it down. All right, you don't have to guess but of course everybody knows that the Apostle Paul hates women. So why even study him, you know? Sorry. Yeah, all right.

Yeah. Elizabeth Beasley says I think you're right. It seems kind of arrogant to decree and declare as if you were God and and funny enough the the whole decreeing and declaring Thing comes out of what's called the word of faith heresy, which teaches you that you are a little God that that's and so the reason Why you do you do these things is because you are a little God.

Ken Copeland was famous for saying these words Jesus said I am I just smile at the Father and say I am to. That he said that that's a quote. Yeah, that's it. That's a direct quote. I mean that's utter satanic blasphemy.

All right. Yeah. Yeah, it in it rather than actually dealing with real demonic forces they're inventing demonic forces, you're right. That's right. Look at I slaved the carbohydrate demon. I embrace the angel of keto.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah Elizabeth says God resists the proud and receives a humble the lie of the wrong tree yeah, then that's the point the the lie of the serpent in the in You know was that you will be like God knowing good and evil it's it's horrifying when you consider the implications.

All right. All right now now to the context here because verse 13 will be the end of this paragraph. And so Paul then begins a new thought but it's still building off of what he said I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me.

So, you know Paul now steers into a little bit more of a personal note. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity not that I'm speaking of being in need and so they had concern for him for some reason that is not exactly stated and Paul says that I'm not speaking of being in need and here's the reason why for I have learned in whatever situation I am I am to be content now this is one of the missing doctrines of Christianity today because It's almost as if they as if so much of evangelicalism in the charismatic movement have eliminated the commandments regarding coveting coveting.

You'll note when you read the Ten Commandments the the the commandments against coveting. You should not covet your neighbor's house his ox His wife or anything that your neighbor owns. Coveting is a sin that occurs inside of your heart.

All right, so You'll note that one of the major sins that is occurring today is coveting. All right. I am I am coveting the fact that Certain people have it easier in our country that they have better paying jobs that they have they have a bazillion dollars and can and own multiple companies and create electric cars and rockets that land themselves and I I I Covet that power and that wealth and that that that Influence.

I want to be an Instagram influencer. I want to be a successful youtuber. I want to be I want I want I want I want to be just like and what are you doing? You're coveting and The church comes along and says oh those desires that's that's your God-given purpose and So God's going to empower you and you're going to learn how to decree and declare so that you can achieve your dream destiny.

And what they've done is they've tried they've taken away the sin of coveting and turned Created a theology that promised that God God's job is to basically fulfill all your covetous desires. Josh. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Expand my territory. Yeah, yeah so you'll note that the coveting then is is now considered a virtue and It's ingrained in us as a result of all of the advertising that were bombarded with day in and day out on Television on the internet, you know, and I just remember as a kid, you know I remember as a kid seeing you know, the the commercials for GI Joe with the kung fu grip, you know.

The the evil Knievel, you know stunt. You know stunt man with the motorcycle that winds up and and and stretch Armstrong you know and and and the six million dollar man with the bionic chips and the and you know all this kind of stuff and Of course, you know at Christmas time They're just bombarding you with all of these commercials and the only thing you can think about is what it would be like to own that Particular toy and you get it and it keeps your attention for about four minutes.

You know, I remember when my kids were young, you know, sometimes we you know, we would buy them you know what we would consider to be an elaborate or you know an expensive Christmas gift and Within a short amount of time they were playing with the box.

Yeah. Yeah, so, you know. But you get the idea. So what does Paul say then whatever situation I am in? I'm content and he says I know how to be brought low. So have you been brought low? Yeah. Can you be content if you've been brought low?

Sure. All right, and I know how to abound, you know, can you be content if you're abounding that seems a little easier? But you're gonna note. You're gonna note that. It might it might seem like it's easier but you know famously I forget was it You know one of the major Tycoons of the late 1900s early 20th century like J. Paul Getty or something like that.

They asked him, you know How much money is enough, you know, because he had this, you know, just a little bit more. He said just a little bit more and so even those, you know, many people who have a lot that's not that's not enough.

They're not even content with that. All right, and then he says in every circumstance I've learned the secret of Facing plenty. Wait a second what facing plenty can be a challenge, of course. Okay, as well as hunger abundance and Need I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

So you'll note that this is not about Conquering the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, which although that is a godly thing. That's not what this text is about. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still an embittered Indianapolis Colts fan, you know deflation gate was just a terrible thing.

Yeah, I'm still in therapy myself. Anyway Dwayne says hmm. We do Englanders agree wholeheartedly. You Know. So it's not about that. It's about Christ giving you the strength so that you can face plenty and hunger.

So that through the working of the Holy Spirit you can be content with what God has given you in every circumstance. That's the point. So now that you know that You can do all things to a verse out of context putting it back into its context.

You know what this is talking about. And so when people misuse that You can politely and lovingly say to them. I don't think that verse means which means what you think it means, you know. Yes. Yeah. Hypothetically speaking.

Of course not. Yeah. So yeah, that's exactly right there's comfort because then if you lose your job or if your company shuts down because of kovat or or You know, the economy takes a turn or maybe there was just some disruptive technology that takes away Your labor position and everything goes to the robots, right?

You can say I can do all things to him who strengthens me and learn to be content even in those circumstances even if it requires Downsizing your your life and and curtailing your expenses, but you're gonna note then that even abundance is considered a temptation and so Abundance is one of these things that can be a temptation where that will become your idol and you'll never be satisfied.

Or content with the abundance that God has given you so it works in both directions. So, all right all of that being said I thought we would do a little mini study on that before we got back into the book of Revelation last week.

Revelation 4, the Throne Room, and the Signs of the Covenant

It was a self-inflicted wound. Bruce. In Revelation 4 last week we talked about the rapture and I thought it was hilarious that my computer overheated. It no for real it overheated and went off. Right while I was debunking the rapture and I had to come back online and say I didn't get raptured and people all.

Yeah. Yeah, so and by the way, if we're talking about the rapture and the and we lose internet connection again we have 50 mile an hour winds out here at Kongsvinger today and and so we have we have a Internet antenna on top of our roof.

That's the site that's basically shaped like a plate. So it becomes a sale. On days like this. So if if you we lose the internet note that That wasn't the rapture again. Yeah, and by the way, I've survived the end of the world what is it 17 times now.

Yeah, I just want you all to know that I I think I have a record. I have the record I've survived the end of the world 17 times so. Kind of a long story but everybody every time somebody out there makes a prediction for when the end of the world is going to happen or the rapture is going to happen and it doesn't or You know or that there's going to be major destruction because of the Shemitah or nonsense like this or the four blood moons I always chalk that up as in the wind category of how I've survived the end of the world again.

So when it comes to you know, post-apocalyptic Eschatological scenarios, I'm your guy. So, you know It Said tongue-in-cheek. All right revelation chapter 4 I said last week that the when you ask people where in the Bible does it teach the rapture?

Revelation 4 1 is where a lot of people go and the and these are the words come up here and they claim that that's the rapture and That's not the rapture so putting it back in context Paul John says this after this I looked and behold there was a door standing open in heaven and The first voice which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said come up here and I will show you what must take Place after this so note that when somebody says come up here is the rapture.

They're they're leaving out the rest of the sentence which shows that it's not some kind of command For the church to come up there, but just for John You. Right, right and you can hear Aladdin I will show you the world anyway.

Bruce I see that hand and I'm shaking. Yeah, yeah, you'll note that the narrative is in the past tense that's After this, yeah, so we've all been left behind, you know. Yeah, these are these are all heiress these are all heiress past tense.

These are all heiress past tense verbs. All right, so you'll know it's in the court. It's in the context of a narrative. It's this is not a passage teaching about the rapture. So then John says that once I was in the spirit behold a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the throne he who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Carnelian and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.

Now a little bit of a note. This is an important little feature here. One of the things I like to point out to people is that that Covenants have signs in the in the Old Testament. When you would cut a covenant with somebody there would be a sign that would invoke the promises or the Requirements of that covenant.

So let me see if I can find this really quick. I think I'm going to Genesis 9. I Could be wrong. All right. Yep. No, I'm not wrong. All right. The brain is still somewhat functional. All right. So God said to Noah and to his sons with him behold I established my covenant with you and your offspring after you and with every living creature.

That is with you the birds and the livestock and every beast of the earth. With you as many as came out of the ark it is for every beast of the earth. So no God is the one establishing the covenant and this is if you want to be technical the name of this covenant is the noatic covenant and that's it's that's its official name as scholars refer to it and and it follows a particular pattern and this pattern is Consistent throughout both the Old and the New Testament because you'll note that the New Covenant also has signs.

But the idea then here is is that the signs invoke the promises? So God's establishing. The covenant is a unilateral unilateral covenant and every human being and All the living creatures on earth including the livestock the birds and all the creepy crawly things.

I wish God hadn't made a covenant with spiders. That's you know, or at least. Yeah, I wish he had excluded them, but he didn't but anyway, you'll note that he he includes everything. So we are all the beneficiaries of this particular covenant and he says I established my covenant with you.

That never again shall all flesh be cut off By the waters of the flood and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. So this is talking about a global flood. And so God's promise. I'm not going to destroy the earth this way.

Good news is is that next time it's fire. So I Was being somewhat facetious, but you get the idea so God has established this covenant. So there there will never be a global flood again. And yes, the flood was global.

God said this is the sign. So watch the sign of the covenant. I make between me and You and every living creature that is with you and for all future generations I have set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth so note when God Sees the rainbow when you see the rainbow I always like to you know remind people that when my kids were younger We'd be driving down the highway during a rainstorm or something like that.

And one of my kids would cry out in joy. Look there's a rainbow and they would always be really excited. Rainbows are not something that you can be indifferent to. Okay. Yeah, there's a rainbow. Okay.

No, they would get really excited. There's a rainbow and then of course Inevitably one of the kids would say that's God's promise that he's not gonna flood the whole earth again. And so you see the rainbow and your kids show that you've been that they've been listening to the Bible that you've been teaching him.

And they know for a fact that the rainbow is the proof. It's the it's the reminder that God promised never to flood the whole earth again. Now that doesn't mean he didn't promise to flood the Red River Valley of the north.

You know in May. Every year, but that's a different story altogether, too. But you get the idea here. So the rainbow is the sign of the covenant, but watch this. This is the important bit. So when I bring clouds over the earth, the bow is seen in the clouds.

I Will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. So the important one when it comes to seeing the signs of the nootic covenant or the sign of the nootic covenant is God.

God sees the rainbow and goes. All right, I'm never gonna destroy them again. So we go immediately into the throne room of heaven in Revelation chapter 4 and what do we see in the throne room? Rainbow.

Isn't that interesting? All right now by the way If I were to ask you the question off the top of the off the top of your head. What are the signs of the new covenant? Which ones? Baptism is not the sign of the new covenant.

It's the Lord's Supper. Right. So it think so think of it this way. We are we are we are the recipients of the promises of the new covenant and there are signs of the new covenant and When God sees those signs, it's an important thing.

So consider consider the words that Jesus says Regarding the Lord's Supper and this is what we call the verba. When we have the Lord's Supper the pastor will say these words which come out of Scripture on the night that Jesus was betrayed.

He took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to the disciples and said take eat. This is my body which is given for you this do and remembrance of me note Remembrance. Remembrance is covenantal talk.

So in fact in the Greek, it's do this into the remembrance of me is the way it goes. All right. So remembrance is covenantal talk then the next part in the same way. Also, he took the cup after supper and when he had given thanks He gave it to them saying drink of it all of you.

This cup is the New Testament New Covenant in my blood which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. So the signs of the new covenant are We see the bread and wine but the signs in the new covenant are the body and blood of Christ and so every time we have the Lord's Supper, it's a covenantal meal and We remember Christ's suffering and the promises of the New Covenant and the promises of the New Covenant are what that God will forgive you of all of your sins cleanse you of all unrighteousness and give you an eternal life and Eternal inheritance as a gift and adopt you so all the promises of the New Covenant are there so every time we have the Lord's Supper the signs of the covenant are there and We remember the promises but more importantly God remembers and he sees the signs of the covenant and In seeing the signs of the covenant.

He remembers to forgive us. He remembers to not bring us into judgment and so this is this is why that particular meal or one of the reasons why that particular meal is so important and and has such significance because God is remembering to forgive us in the same way God when he sees the rainbow.

He's remembering never to again bring destruction on the end, you know to the end of the earth, you know for all of the earth. You get the idea. Okay, so a little bit of a digression there, but a necessary one.

So we see that around the throne there was a rainbow it had the appearance of an emerald around the throne were 24 thrones. I think just a simple way to understand the 24 thrones is how many tribes of Israel were there?

12 how many Apostles of Christ are there? 12 you see you see kind of how that works, right? So, you know the Old and the New Testament saints are all present. Represented by these elders. So there were 24 thrones seated on the thrones or 24 elders clothed in white garments.

These are your garments of salvation that we talked about in the sermon today with golden crowns on their head. From the throne came flashes of lightning rumblings. Peels of thunder before the throne were burning seven torches of fire.

Which are the seven spirits of God. And before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass like crystal. All right quick quick idea here. You'll note that over and again in the early portions of the book of Revelation the number associated with God is what?

Seven. All right. This helps us because you'll note that you know. You have seven torches seven spirits of God seven lampstands seven seven seven. When we get to the mark of the beast, it's what. Six six six.

It's the mark of a man it's it's it's like at the unholy trinity it's not perfect. It's imperfect you get the point. That's one of the major Significances of the mark of the beast. So before God and then you're gonna note before the throne there were.

There was as it were a sea of glass like crystal. Now why is that important? All right, go back to your Old Testament to Genesis chapter 1. In Genesis chapter 1 you hear these words in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form and void. Darkness was over the face of the to home and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. You see this is this picture of the tohu vabohu this Chaos if you would and you'll note later in the book of Revelation.

That when the dragon conjures up his his mega weapons to fight against the Saints. With the mega weapons being the beast and the false prophet He conjures them up out of the chaos of the sea. All right so chaos is this picture of the opposite of what God has done.

God takes chaos and Turns it into order and at the end of Genesis 1 where we start off with without form without Void the tohu vabohu the chaos of the waters and everything kind of tumultuous and the Spirit of God Brooding hovering over the face of the waters now in the book of Revelation.

We see rather than the chaos. It's calm glassy sea and So again, it shows that God is the one who brings order the one who brings peace. Where there was chaos and disorder that that's kind of the idea.

Let me go back here. Now. Let's see here. So and around the throne on each side of the throne are four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature like a lion the second living creature like an ox third living creature with the face of a man the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight and you're going to note this particular description invokes particular portions of the prophets Daniel being one of them Ezekiel and even parts of Isaiah seemed to come to be invoked with this type of vision and the four living creatures each of them with six wings are Full of eyes all around within and day and night.

They never ceased to cry out saying holy holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. Hmm. Holy holy Holy why three holies. Trinity right, this is this is a this is a Thinly veiled reference to the Trinity same kind of idea then take a look at Isaiah chapter 6.