So what is the next seal? Uri asked.
Little Person looked at her and asked, you still want to go further? We have been here for over an hour. Is the time okay with your folks?
Uri smiled, I texted them on what we are studying…. They said to take copious notes because they want to know what you are getting too.
They both smiled and took a restroom break.
This time they asked for a couple of cups of coffee, lots of cream too, please.
They smiled at each other as they poured the cream into their coffee, it was more like cream with a little coffee.
Then they sought out the next seal in Revelation 6:5-6:
When He (the Lamb) broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come.”
I looked, and behold, a black horse [of famine]; and the rider had in his hand a pair of scales (a balance).
And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius (a day’s wages), and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not ]damage the oil and the wine.”
This seal is what I call the measure of the man, started Little Person….. We have the Son of Man as the perfection of God’s creation of man…..Adam was the first but was defiled by sin…. Now Jesus Christ took the reign forever for His perfect obedience unto to God and His great sacrifice of His life to give us life. There has been no one like Him before nor will there one like Him ever after.
He completed the tests of God with honors as written in Hebrews 5:5-10:
So too Christ did not glorify Himself so as to be made a high priest, but He [was exalted and appointed by the One] who said to Him,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten (fathered) You [declared Your authority and rule over the nations]”;
just as He also says in another place,
“You are a priest [appointed] forever
According to the order of [a]Melchizedek.”
In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].
Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.
And having been made perfect [uniquely equipped and prepared as Savior and retaining His integrity amid opposition], He became the source of eternal salvation [an eternal inheritance] to all those who obey Him, being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of [b]Melchizedek.
Also it is written in Philippians 2:3-13:
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit [through factional motives, or strife], but with [an attitude of] humility [being neither arrogant nor self-righteous], regard others as more important than yourselves.
Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
Have this same attitude in yourselves which was in Christ Jesus [look to Him as your example in selfless humility], who, although He existed in the form and unchanging essence of God [as One with Him, possessing the fullness of all the divine attributes—the entire nature of deity], did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped or asserted [as if He did not already possess it, or was afraid of losing it]; but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man].
After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus [b]every knee shall bow [in submission], of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord (sovereign God), to the glory of God the Father.
So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed [my instructions with enthusiasm], not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation [that is, cultivate it, bring it to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity] with awe-inspired fear and trembling [using serious caution and critical self-evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ].
For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.
So we see how God looks at His Perfect Man, filled without measure is of Holy Spirit and laid down all of Himself to obey God….. He is far from any kind of famine except selfishness….He is lack in the self centeredness that plagues mankind….
God looks at famine different than we do…. He will allow a famine in the natural, but His great concern is there a famine in our heart where He is to be?….Without Christ in us, we are living a famine life. We might have all the stuff anyone can desire in this world, but according to our God, we are naked and empty. Beyond this, our hope in our future life will be lost where there is weeping and the gnashing of teeth as our King states in the Gospels.
Our heart form abiding in Christ Jesus should be so full and overflowing with our King,… in Spirit and Truth…. As written in Hosea one sentence that I always check myself on …..Your fruit is found in Me…. As written in Hosea 14:8: Ephraim shall say, what I have to do with idols? I have heard and observed him, I am a green cypress tree: Your fruit is found in Me.
I cannot bear the fruit from myself which the Lord or our Heavenly Father is seeking. The fruit that They seek is the fruit of Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Jesus working or flowing through us….. I allowing to be an open vessel for Him to do His work through is what I need to concern myself on. An ear to hear and quick obedient heart. His work is His work…..He only can make the oranges….. I am the empty vessel for His sap to flow through.
Uri spoke up, I think I see what you are saying:….. bearing much fruit is sort of like bowing to Holy Spirit to complete His power in the direction He wants it to go…through us. We are the obedient vessel going where He says go and saying what He says to speak. Just as Jesus spoke in John 5 about Himself, right?
Yup, as Little Person agreed. Then he went on with more scripture John 15:1-10.
I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].
You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].
Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me.
]I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for [otherwise] apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken off] branch, and withers and dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you remain in Me and My words remain in you [that is, if we are vitally united and My message lives in your heart], ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.
I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you].
If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
As written in Ephesians 3:20-21: Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever …..
Uri took abig breath and yelled>>> AMEN!
The people in the restaurant yelled back, AMEN! They all laughed and smiled as Uri turned bright red.
Uri asked, okay, I got that the fruit we bear is actually His fruit…. He is the SAP which creates the fruit….. So scripture states He wants no harm to come to those who are actually bearing His fruit. Is this His wine and His Oil?
Yes, agreed Little Person, as he continued : I need to back up here: remember the scripture we read in Zechariah on the curse written in the scroll…… and the house being built for ungodliness?…
Uri shook her head and said, yes,
Little Person continued, well, the chapter written before, chapter 4, in Zechariah reveals the plan of God; the release of the Promise from our Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit is released upon the earth.
See in Zechariah chapter 4: And the angel who was speaking with me came back and awakened me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.
He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl [for oil] on the top of it and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it.
And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side [supplying it continuously with oil].”
So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”
Then the angel who was speaking with me answered me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
Then he said to me, “This [continuous supply of oil] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel [prince of Judah], saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of whom the oil is a symbol],’ says the Lord of hosts.
‘What are you, O great mountain [of obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who will rebuild the temple] you will become a plain (insignificant)!
And he will bring out the capstone [of the new temple] with loud shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’”
Now Zerubbabel is the symbol for our King Jesus Christ… as He stated in John 2: He would build His temple in three days, by His death and resurrection from the dead by the power of His Holy Spirit. Once this was accomplished by His resurrection, our Heavenly Father would send the Promise of His Spirit to dwell with us and in us to His followers.
As stated in Zechariah 4:10:For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see the plumbline in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, which scan to and fro the whole earth.
Now the plumbline is the measuring for building. So this plumbline or standard is our King and by His Spirit alone shall His temple or church be built…. Got that?
Uri said, Yes….Then she motioned with her hand to keep going…
Little Person continued:
Now we as His believers possess His Holy Spirit as He is in the world so are we…. Filled with Holy Spirit as His body….revealing the testimony of Jesus Christ to the world.
Holy Spirit within us is represented as the Oil…. As written in Matthew 25, the ten virgins who had their lamps ready and some not ready…. Well, actually five did not keep oil and the other five did.
The bridegroom came and the five who were prepared entered into the door to their rest…. The other five did not have the oil…..They went to the store to buy more, but as they returned…. Bad news happened……. The bridegroom said they could not enter for He did not know them. He did not recognize His Spirit within them….and it was too late for them.
This is the same wake up alarm for the Laodicean church, they think they have it all, but in the eyes of the Lord they are wretched, miserable and poor and naked and blind….He also told them to go buy eye salve and new garments so they could see and be clothed with His Spirit alone of the rebirth from above.
As written in Proverbs 20:27: The Spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.
The amplified version states :The spirit (conscience) of man is the lamp of the LORD, Searching and examining all the innermost parts of his being.
As written in Proverbs 21:2: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts.
And verse 20 of the same Proverbs 21 states: There is desirable treasure, and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man squanders it.
Holy Spirit wants to be overflowing in us. He is the Governor over our souls. We only go when He says go and say when He says speak….. He is the Oil in our hearts that will always be overflowing bringing His testimony of our King to all around.
Now people may or may not welcome His presence…. That is between them and our King, we are to bring His testimony, a light to the dark to all around us.
Holy Spirit is like our horses when we give them free reign…. They run like the wind just because they can…. Holy Spirit runs like the wind within our spirit to our soul to change and transform our souls in to His image…. . Also will illumine those around us to the presence of our God is here.
Holy Spirit wants full leadership and no human can take His place… We have one Father. We have One Savior, Jesus Christ. We have One Lord or King Jesus Christ. We have His Spirit within us, crowned Lord as bow into Him with love. One King alone lives and resides on the throne of our heart as well as the whole universe.
Okay, we got the understanding of the Oil and wine….. Now, let us look at the black horse, Okay?
Uri lifted her hands to show Little Person keep it rolling…..He continued:
The third seal, and third horse representing the number three points to the Godhead….. We abide in the Son as His body. We are found complete in Him…. as written in Colossians.
But we as the body of Christ, the church, are the one new man, the fullness of the measure of the stature of a man in Christ…. As He is so are we to be in this earth.
He measures us all the time…. The test of the Lord is at anytime… Remember, how in Ezekiel, Zechariah, Abraham and in Revelation, men in different scriptures were told to measure in the Word?….
God tests the measure of His fullness in us, His building, regarding the knowledge of Him as this knowledge is to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea…
Our God is about His Word being fulfilled in us and on this earth…. The knowledge of His greatness and glory are to be covering this earth…. Right now, this job is fulfilled by our King’s body,…. His oil and wine, us, by only His Spirit. Shouts of grace, grace show the fruit is His released by us as a vessel.
There should be a huge distinction of whose family we belong too. We are born from above.
The fruit as it is crushed into wine is our obedience even unto suffering. The grape has no say in when it will be smushed to make the wine….and aged….Hence, then matured in to His likeness…..
This is our God’s goal… He wants to see His Own Seed reproduced in great multiplication within every tongue, tribe and tongue. The Incorruptible Seed, His Beloved Son, now reproduced in us…by His blood shed on His cross. Also, by His resurrection,……. His temple is being rebuilt on Our Heavenly Father’s terms: by revelation of His Son Jesus Christ.
This is the symbolic meaning of the third or three….. Third day of creation, God created all to yield seed after thier own kind…. He is searching within our hearts for the Incorruptible Seed reproduced within us after His own Son, His own Kind.
The glory and knowledge of the Lord God Almighty will cover the earth and is covering the earth as the waters cover the sea as written.
This wine He is preserving here in the release of third seal is the work of Holy Spirit within us. Grace is known by His hand alone…… His way proves us as the fruit is crushed. Then a fragrant aroma is before our God revealing by us the testimony of His Son Jesus Christ to the heavens and throughout the earth.
As He is so are we in this world….. We walk the narrow road that leads to life….
People have a hang up with suffering…. I know Jesus Christ is our Healer…. He is our Redeemer…. He is our Deliverer…. But there is a cross that we carry bearing His reproach….As He said if they persecuted Me, Your Rabbi, they will also persecute you…..
We can read the Gospels on all those accounts He spoke of allowing us to know we will bear a cost for keeping close in our heart the Pearl of Great Price.
Luke 14:27: And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple, spoken by our King.
When our King searches the lands, He sees His glory or a famine.
Our God is light and life….If the world has not Jesus Christ, they are in famine, according to our God’s thought. His purpose is stopped through those that go against His will…
He does not desire any one person to perish… They though have the ability to choose Him or not.
God has set the rules. If anyone wants life and a resurrected life, must choose Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior and follow Him as their King….. This is His building plumbline.
Hence, those, without Jesus Christ abiding in them, are in death. They have chosen the world versus the Kingdom of God. So the inhabitants of the world are on death row.
We know the color black always represents death or the world in biblical symbolism. That is why the horse was the color black. The famine of the refusal of the finest Wheat ever offered to all is our King Jesus…. The world is in famine from Him….
This is how our God sees this result of the curse: they do not turn to see His voice of His Spirit….whispering to them from their beds, their cars, their rooftops, their despair, their broken hearts….
Their famine leads to death, unless they turn and see the voice calling them.
There could be famine in the world for food….. But I believe, famine is for those with out Christ…. Symbolically famine represents they are without Christ…Jesus Christ is the Bread of Life for every hungry soul that walks on this earth.
As it is written in Luke 4:4, man should not eat by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
As written in Amos 8:11-12: “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“When I will send hunger over the land,
Not hunger for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather [a hunger] for hearing the words of the Lord.
“People shall stagger from sea to sea [to the very ends of the earth]
And from the north even to the east;
They will roam here and there to seek the word of the Lord [longing for it as essential for life],
But they will not find it.
The measure of what is in man, our God is searching as a lamp in our heart….. The finest wheat from heaven or the starvation from Heaven’s Bread and full on the dainties of the world. His Light or darkness is known in our hearts and the fruit is seen in our homes and reflecting our lives by our God and King and His angels.
Now the instructions to the rider was to not harm the oil and the wine….. So this is not the voice of Satan, right? Really now,…….. Satan would be the first to destroy His oil and His wine. Satan’s mode of operation is to kill, steal and destroy…. Preserving nothing good and holy is Satan’s delight.
Our God will protect His Oil and Wine…. He watches His vineyard carefully and diligently.
Right? Asked Little Person.
Uri agreed by shaking her head up and down….. She was busy taking notes on all that was being shown to her.
The biggest question for us who believe is I think is this:………… Before our King’s eyes…..Lord, where do we stand having Your Oil and Your wine flowing from our heart for Your glory and fame?
After all, we only truly have an Audience of One…..
Father God, do You see Your Seed after Your own kind within us and shining before the world? Are we standing through the surroundings of famine and death, revealing Your eternal strength of life and light? Do we reveal Your strength of love keeping us in Your refuge for the world to see what Your Son is to us and how You keep us strong in Him? How You alone perform all things that concern us for those who believe and trust in You alone? Do we show how faithful You are to us and how You are always watching over Your Word to perform it?
Lord, do you see us looking at You as You search the world to and fro looking for who You can show Yourself strong on our behalf? Do You find faith on this earth in Your beloved?
His life should be so extravagantly shown through us….His Words are life and light and love…. There is no famine when we are partaking of our King by His Spirit.
Third seal- the Godhead is three and we are seeing the divine nature of our God working in and through us as written it should be in 2 Peter 1:2-11:
Grace and peace [that special sense of spiritual well-being] be multiplied to you in the [true, intimate] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
For His divine power has bestowed on us [absolutely] everything necessary for [a dynamic spiritual] life and godliness, through [a]true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
For by these He has bestowed on us His precious and magnificent promises [of inexpressible value], so that by them you may escape from the immoral freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire, and become sharers of the divine nature.
For this very reason, applying your diligence [to the divine promises, make every effort] in [exercising] your faith to, [b]develop moral excellence, and in moral excellence, knowledge (insight, understanding), and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, steadfastness, and in your steadfastness, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly affection, and in your brotherly affection, [develop Christian] love [that is, learn to unselfishly seek the best for others and to do things for their benefit].
For as these qualities are yours and are increasing [in you as you grow toward spiritual maturity], they will keep you from being useless and unproductive in regard to the true knowledge and greater understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For whoever lacks these qualities is blind—shortsighted [closing his spiritual eyes to the truth], having become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed from his old sins.
Therefore, believers, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you [be sure that your behavior reflects and confirms your relationship with God]; for by [c]doing these things [actively developing these virtues], you will never stumble [in your spiritual growth and will live a life that leads others away from sin];for in this way entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly provided to you.
He will preserve His wine and oil for we are the testimony of Christ in this earth….during famine and trials of those in the world.
Uri speaking as she earnestly looked at Little Person, we have to finish the fourth seal before we leave…. Is that okay? It will keep me up tonight trying to figure out what you were shown….Please…..?
He opened his mouth to say,………..
Some one heard a voice small though vibrant as if it was coming from the heavens above:
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;
Sing of the honor and glory and magnificence of His name;
Make His praise glorious.
Say to God, “How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works!
Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to be obedient to You.
“All the earth will [bow down to] worship You [in submissive wonder],
And will sing praises to You;
They will praise Your name in song.” Selah.
Come and see the works of God,
He is awesome in His deeds toward the children of men.
He turned the sea into dry land;
They crossed through the river on foot;
There we rejoiced in Him.
Who rules by His might forever,
His eyes keep watch on the nations;
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
Bless our God, O peoples,
And make the sound of His praise be heard abroad,
Who keeps us among the living,
And does not allow our feet to slip or stumble.
For You have tested us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.
You brought us into the net;
You laid a heavy burden [of servitude] on [a]us.
You made men (charioteers) ride over our heads [in defeat];
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a [broad] place of abundance [to be refreshed].
I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings;
I shall pay You my vows,
Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke as a promise when I was in distress.
I shall offer to You burnt offerings of fat lambs,
With the [sweet] smoke of rams;
I will offer bulls with male goats. Selah.
Come and hear, all you fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul.
I cried to Him with my mouth, and He was extolled with my tongue.
If I regard sin and baseness in my heart [that is, if I know it is there and do nothing about it],
The Lord will not hear [me];
But certainly God has heard [me];
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer
Nor His lovingkindness from me, ( Psalm 66).
All in the restaurant was quiet.
Selah!
More to come, God is willing!
