Revelation 10:7 announces that with the seventh trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished. It’s sweet as honey, but hard to digest. Paul wrote in Colossians 2:2, “God’s mystery, which is Christ.”
The first unexpected fact about Jesus is that God meets us in him. Jesus did not receive a message from God. He speaks in the name of God. He was not exalted as a man, but through him God became man. God did not appear in human form but was born human. God can be in heaven and on earth at the same time. This was already visible in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible (e.g. Genesis 19:24; 2 Chronicles 7:1-2).
In Revelation 10, the mysteries of God are accompanied by thunder. After Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, John 12:28-29 says, “Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
The disciples had experienced this voice from heaven twice before. At Jesus’ baptism (Matthew 3:17) and on the mount of transfiguration (Matthew 17:5), a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
The first surprise was: God reveals himself to us in the Son. Wonderful news, but also difficult for many to digest, that God became human being.
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