My dear brother Mike,

First, I pray that all is well with you and your family. I look forward to the next time our Lord will bring us together again.

Secondly, thank you for your faithfulness in … feeding His sheep… you are God’s blessing to so many of us, more than you know.

The Revelation study in all candor brings out in me more questions than answers, nevertheless I … must live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God…

Jas 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Jas 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

My question regards the understanding I hold for:

Ecc 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

The study on Rev 16:4-9 there were “2 mysteries”:

Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

And…

2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

So the process of God revealing “the mystery, Christ in you, the hope of glory” are we not also at the same time having the “mystery of iniquity (which is defined in Strong’s as illegality, (2 Th 2:4 sits in the temple of God) revealed in us?

I believe this is the process the Lord when through with Israel and Pharaoh.

To Israel:

Exo 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

Exo 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

To Pharaoh:

Exo 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

Exo 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

While His Son is being revealed to us and eventually in us, we too, (the beast) is being exposed to us and eventually out of us. This is the one event, the way I understand it.

I know you are short of time but when you have a minute, I sure would like to get clarity.

God Bless you brother,

A____

Hi A____,

Thank you for your encouraging words and for sharing your thoughts with me. I too, look forward to the next time the Lord brings us together!

I really am the most blessed man in the world, to have so many sharing the revelations which the Lord gives them with me.

You are seeing this “One event”, this “revelation of the mystery”, very clearly. Yes, there are “two mysteries” just as there are ‘two Adams’. I feel sure you have heard me say the entire Bible concerns itself with only two men, and those two men are “the man of sin” and “the Son of God”.

But for those who are given to receive it, that first man is nothing more than a figure of the last man, and but a necessary evil stepping stone to the last man.

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure [ Greek – tupos, type] of him that was to come.

Speaking to that first man, in the form of Pagan Athenians, the apostle Paul made this statement:

Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

It is Christ, by the Father’s design, in whom we “consist… live, and move, and have our being”.

Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [ they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

So “the mystery of iniquity” along with all the seals, trumpets and plagues which are used by God to reveal that mystery and destroy that first Adam, are in Truth, but an essential first part of the revelation of Jesus Christ, which we all must “read, hear and keep”.

I hope those few verses help answer your question. If it does not help to clarify this subject for you, please let me know. Your question indicates that the Lord actually is revealing to you what “He declared to His servants the prophets… which is the mystery of Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:26-27, and Rev 10:7), as well as the revelation of the man of sin, which must necessarily precede the revelation of Christ in you.

Your brother in Christ,

Mike