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THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN “This represented the secret purposes of God about to be revealed. The designs and methods of Divine Providence, toward the church and the world, are stated, fixed, and made a matter of record. The counsels of God are altogether hidden from the eye and understanding of the creature. The several parts are not unsealed and opened at once, but after each other, till the whole mystery of God’s counsel and conduct is finished in the world. The creatures cannot open it, nor read it; the Lord only can do so” (Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume, Re 5:1–5). W.A. Criswell “The primary, fundamental, chief reference and significance of this book has to do with the redemption of God’s created universe and everything in it. That book is a book of redemption” (Expository Sermons on <strong>Revelation</strong>, p. 56). “The book represents a forfeited inheritance. The inheritance is what God created for us, for Adam’s seed. We lost it in sin and transgression. A usurper took it; sin, death, hell, Satan, iniquity, judgment, wrath and the curse took away our inheritance as it is unto this day. According to the law and customs of the ancient Jewish people, the sign of a forfeited inheritance was a sealed book. The fact that it is seven-sealed emphasizes the encumbrances that are upon this inheritance. An interloper, an intruder an alien, an enemy, has taken it, and that book of redemption awaits a goel, a kinsman-redeemer, a worthy, qualified and legal kinsman to buy it back and to restore it to its rightful owners. When that book of redemption is taken by one who is worthy, and those seals are opened, then that interloper, that intruder, that alien, that enemy is to be cast out; and finally the whole purchased possession is to be redeemed, and sin, hell, death, and Satan are to be cast into the lake of fire, forever destroyed. The judgment of God creates for us a new heaven and a new earth, and gives us back the inheritance that we lost in Adam. Such is the meaning of the sevensealed book that lies upon the hand of God. It is the symbol of a forfeited and lost inheritance” (pp. 66-67). “The Lord never created Adam to die, Death is an enemy…. God never made the earth to groan and to travail in agony and in pain, a place where the animals eat one another, where the earth is blasted with desert and with the burning of the sun and the cold of the winds. God never intended this earth to be bathed in tears and in blood. ‘An enemy hath done this,’ saith the Lord, ‘an interloper.’ The sign of that forfeiture lies in the hand of God. The Book represents the instruments, the mortgages, the bonds, of our lost inheritance. The completeness of that forfeiture and the terrible encumbrance upon it is signified by seven seals – seven of them, Adam’s race has forfeited the inheritance altogether. The breaking of those seven seals represents the restitution of the creation to God and to Adam’s fallen race” (W.A. Criswell Expository Sermons on <strong>Revelation</strong> p. 60). Though the 50 th year – the Jubilee was essentially for the land ownership of the children of Israel, the general interpretation of the concept of Jubilee and return to one’s own heritage is equally applicable to the fall and loss of status of the children of Adam. It was this return that Jesus was proclaiming. The purpose of incarnation was to be the kinsman redeemer. This is clearly mentioned in the Manifesto of Jesus at the beginning of his mission. 108
THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN Luk 4:18-21 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because of this • He anointed Me to proclaim the gospel to the poor; • He has sent Me" o to heal the brokenhearted, o "to proclaim remission to captives, and o to the blind to see again," o to send away the ones being crushed, in remission, o "to preach an acceptable year of the Lord." Isa. 61:1, 2 “ And rolling up the scroll, returning it to the attendant, He sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears. That was at the beginning of His mission. When the mission is over Isa 61:2b, and 3 will also be declared Isa 61 2b speaks of “the day of vengeance of our God and comfort to those who mourn”. This is the time of this later part. The declaration of • “Vengeance of Our God • To comfort those who mourn” Here the Redeemer brother himself gets all the possessions back to his brother which involves forceful eviction of the unlawful occupier. Here was the will of inheritance of the children of Adam by Adam’s Father God. Jesus the brother gets back the Paradise that was lost. 109
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