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The Bible is literature but it is divinely inspired.

It goes without saying that the book of Revelation repeats the number 7.

Revelation is structured in sevens

Think of instances of seven?

The number seven, as we will see abundantly throughout Revelation, is a Biblical


number for completeness or fullness taken from the seven-day pattern laid down at
the creation in Genesis 1.

Revelation 5:6: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts,
and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns
and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth

What does the 7 eyed Lamb and the seven spirits mean?

The Lamb also has seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into the
earth (cf. Zech. 6:5).

In order to understand this, we have to go back to Genesis 1, where we find the first
mention of the Spirit: hovering over the earth, brooding over it, forming and filling it,
calling forth life.

As the creation progresses, the Spirit performs seven acts of seeing.

Seven times we are told "God saw that Creation was good".

(Gen. 1:4,
God saw that the light was good,

Gen 1:10
God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God
saw that it was good.

Gen1: 12
The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees
bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Gen1: 18,
God made two great lights… And God saw that it was good.

Gen 1: 21
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the
water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged
bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Gen 1: 25
God made the wild animals… And God saw that it was good.

Gen 1: 31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there
was morning—the sixth day.

Hence the seven seeing spirits are paralleled in both Genesis and Revelation.

The divine action of the spirit on the universe features the penetration of the darkness by
the light of the God’s glory. The spirit finishes its work after of creating heaven and earth
and is consummated in a rest or Sabbath.

The seven days are the fullness of time of creation, the sevenfold fullness of the day of
the Lord.

So Revelation describes a redemptive re-creation, the day of the Lord, wherein the old
passes away and all is created anew

Hebrews 4:2-4

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did
not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my

wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
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For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the
seventh day from all his works.

As God was creating His world, He was also judging it, assessing and approving it,
until the final, climactic judgment was made as the prelude to the beginning of the
seventh day.

In the heavenly vision he had seen Christ exalted to the Father's right hand, and the
Book of Life committed to him. One by one the Seven Seals that kept secret its
contents had been broken, each Seal being associated with a manifestation of wrath.

Seven angels appear to sound blasts of divine wrath upon their trumpets - more wrath
against Israel! Six of these follow one after another bringing retribution . Soon must
come the Seventh and last, and then - John doubtless reasoned to himself - the Lamb’s
Book of Life will be full open.

But no! There is more to come but John was not permitted to write it. We are still waiting
for the seventh day. WHY?

Rev 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the Mystery of
God is accomplished, as He preached the Gospel to His servants the prophets.

Before the last blast of the seventh trumpet, the "mystery of God" was finished.

What is the Mystery? What does this mean to us?


"Something formerly concealed and now unveiled. It is revelation.

The Mystery is simply the message of the Gospel.

This "Mystery" is a major aspect of the letters to the Ephesians and Colossians: the union
of believing Jews and Gentiles in one Church, without distinction.

(Eph. 3:6)
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with
Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in
Christ Jesus.
Gentiles, who had been strangers and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and from
the covenantal promises, are now, through the work of Christ, full sons of Abraham, heirs
of the Covenant, on an equal and indistinguishable standing with believing Jews.

Also

Rom 16; 26

Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I
proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for
long ages past

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