Who likes to be in on secrets? My kids like to be in the know about gifts for their siblings. They especially enjoy being able to help pick out a gift. However, there are certain gifts no sibling knows about for the birthday kid until the birthday comes.
Similarly,
through our study of Revelation, we get to be in on some of the secrets regarding
the end of time, the new heaven and the new earth! Jesus hasn’t given us all
the details, though. We won’t know or understand everything until our new life
in heaven.
Before
the 7th angel sounded the trumpet, we receive an interesting interlude:
Revelation
10:1-4 Then I saw another mighty
angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a
rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were
like fiery pillars. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which
lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on
the land, 3 and he gave a
loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the
seven thunders spoke. 4 And
when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice
from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not
write it down.”
Jesus (through the 7 thunders or 7 spirits or the Holy
Spirit) revealed a mystery to John that only he knows. Why can’t we know it?
Maybe it is too awful regarding the final and complete judgment on the entire
earth. Maybe it’s beyond our comprehension. Maybe it was specific to John.
Whatever the reason, it made me realize how privileged we are
to know any of Jesus’s plans. It’s amazing Jesus chooses to reveal some details
to us. We can appreciate the “secrets” we do know and diligently study the
Bible to understand all that He has revealed.
What time will you and I set aside each day to learn more of
Jesus’s “secrets” (by the Holy Spirit’s help)? Which “secret” will you and I
share with others?
