What is the 'Little Book' of Revelation 10? - British-Israel

1 What is the & quot ; little book & quot ; of Revelation 10? By Peter Salemi BICOG What is the & quot ; little book & quot ; of Revelation 10? BICOG Publication Page 2 Gerald Flurry a leader of the Cult called the & quot ;Philadelphia Church of God,& quot ; that has apostatized into following a man and not Christ, claims that he knows what is the & quot ; little book & quot ; in the book of Revelation ! Gerald Flurry is making fantastic claims to try and justify his office as an Apostle and his ministry as a continuation of the ministry of Herbert W Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God. He is doing all of this to try and legitimize his claim that God is only working through him. In the book of Revelation chapter 10, John sees and angel holding a & quot ; little book .& quot ; It says, & quot ;And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: & quot ;And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,& quot ; (Rev 10:1-2).

2 Gerald flurry claims that this & quot ; little book & quot ; is an addition to the Bible, and he claims that he is the one who wrote this book ! Gerald Flurry Proclaims! Right in the beginning of his booklet called & quot ;The little book & quot ; he says, & quot ;There is a ' little book ' discussed in Revelation 10. There have been many theories about what it is. God has finally revealed the truth about this little book & quot ; Yes God has revealed what that little book is, if we look into the Bible and letting the Bible interpret itself, we can know. But Flurry takes a different approach. He thinks it is a new book , an addition to the Bible, kind of like Joseph Smith and his book of Mormon, or Muhammad and his Koran. But the Bible says after the Apostles there is no more Bible (Isaiah 8:16-20), and warns in the book of Revelation itself, & quot ;For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book , If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : & quot ;And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book .

3 & quot ; (Rev 22:18-19). Flurry is really playing with fire, claiming to have an addition to the Bible! After we examine Flurry's claims we will examine what the little book is according to the Bible. Notice what Flurry says in his booklet, & quot ;The whole Bible is referred to as a book -not a ' little book ' (Ezek. 2:9-10; Rev 5:1-2). So this passage is not referring to the Bible.& quot ; (The little book , , emphasis mine and his). He begins saying that the little book is not the Bible, but something else. His two reference scriptures are Ezekiel 2:9-10 and Revelation 5:1-2. When one reads Ezekiel chapters 2 and 3 one understands that God told Ezekiel to, & quot ;eat that thou findest; eat this roll& quot ; (3:1), and & quot ;go speak unto the house of Israel.& quot ; This was not the whole Bible, but just the book of Ezekiel. & quot ;The prophet is to announce to the people of Israel only that which the Lord inspires him to there was written upon it all that the prophet was to announce, and what we now read in his book .

4 & quot ; (K&D Commentary, emphasis added). The book of Ezekiel is one part of the 66 books that comprise the whole Bible. The same can be said of Revelation the 5th chapter. The book with 7 seals is revealed in chapter 6, and is part of the book of Revelation , it does not mean the whole bible. The same can be said of What is the & quot ; little book & quot ; of Revelation 10? BICOG Publication Page 3 the book of Exodus. God told Moses, & quot ;And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book , and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.& quot ; (Ex 17:14). Did this mean the whole Bible? No! The same can be said of Isaiah and Jeremiah (Isaiah 30:8; Jer 30:2). These individual & quot ;books& quot ; are God's Revelation at different times in history revealed to prophets, kings, shepherds, Apostles then the time would come when the last book of the Bible would be written, Revelation , and that would be the end of God's written word, and all these books would comprise one book , the book we call the Bible.

5 So these books do not mean the whole Bible as Flurry claims but parts of the Bible. Actually, these are smaller books that comprise the whole book , the Bible. So these books of Moses, Ezekiel Isaiah, Jeremiah, & quot ; little & quot ; books that make up the whole. The Seven Thunders Now Flurry also claims this & quot ; little book has seven thunders& quot ; (ibid, ), and that, & quot ;The little book is speechless and silent. Yet is has a thunderous message if you read it or hear its message proclaimed. & quot ;However, during the Tribulation, those seven thunders are going to be pounded into the heads of those who reject them at that is a message that has one blast of thunder after another-a series of seven thunders& quot ; (ibid, ). Wow! He is really building up this & quot ; little book & quot ; that he claims to have written. But does the Bible really say that the & quot ; little book has seven thunders& quot ;?

6 The Bible says, & quot ;And cried [The mighty Angel ] with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. & quot ;And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.& quot ; (Rev 10:3-4). Does it say these thunders came from the & quot ; little book & quot ;? No! It says, & quot ;the seven thunders had uttered their voices.& quot ; Where did these come from? These thunders came from the throne of God, the seven spirits of God, & quot ;And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.& quot ; (Rev 4:5). So it is clear that it comes from the throne of God and not from the little book !

7 Also, the seven thunders were & quot ;sealed up& quot ; and not written ( ). The little book is & quot ;open& quot ;, and is a book , it is written, and like Ezekiel, John had to eat the book ( ), then it was told to John, NOT Gerald Flurry, & quot ;..Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings& quot ; ( ). So the little book and the thunders are two completely separate things. The Mystery of the Ages and Flurry's book Flurry goes on to say, & quot ;In the past, some of us have thought the little book was Mr. Armstrong's book Mystery of the Ages,& quot ; & quot ;but& quot ; he says, & quot ;Mystery of the Ages does not contain seven thunderous messages like a lions roar!& quot ; (ibid, ). He says, & quot ;When the little book comes on What is the & quot ; little book & quot ; of Revelation 10? BICOG Publication Page 4 the scene, it is a time of fear in God's church and on the world scene& quot ; (ibid, ).

8 Obviously he is leading up to what this little book is. Now he says, & quot ;The angel told John not to write this vision of the little book & quot ; (ibid, ). No! It says not to write what the seven thunders said that came from the throne of God (Rev 10:4). Flurry is adding his own narrative-his own ideas into the Bible and not letting the Bible speak to us. Now here is the kicker, & quot ;Imagine. The message of this little book was revealed 1900 years ago! However, IT WAS NOT WRITTEN UNTIL 1989!& quot ; & quot ;Why did God reveal his message 1900 years ago and not record it until the very end? If Mr. Armstrong had understood Malachi's Message, WHICH IS THE little book he would have warned us about the Judas-type betrayal& quot ; (ibid, , emphasis his). There you have it! He wrote the & quot ; little book & quot ; of Revelation the 10th chapter, his book called Malachi's Message.

9 Again he says, & quot ;As we said before the little book IS MALACHI'S MESSAGE. And God commands us to 'eat it up'''(ibid. , emphasis his). So he is basically saying that we are to believe and take in everything in the book , and acknowledge him as God's apostle-and whatever he writes is what God wants and commands. Is this any different from the religion of Islam? Muhammad says the same thing! Flurry's Theology With this theology in place, now Flurry begins to spiritualize chapter 10 and 11 in this way. There is a church split in this end time (Rev 11:1-2). The church is told in Amos 2:11-12 not to prophesy, & quot ;this upsets God and his loyal followers and causes a church 's Philadelphia church does prophesy& quot ; (ibid, ), then Quotes Amos 3:7-8. Then he says, & quot ;One of God's church prophesy and one church refuses to Mr.

10 Armstrong died, the church he founded started to say, 'prophesy not' So God prophesy message stopped. Then God raised up the Philadelphia Church of God and said, 'prophesy again''' (Rev 10:11) (ibid, ). Unbelievable! Flurry's problem is he spiritualizes practically everything away when there is no need. God tells us in his Bible when something is spiritual and when something is not (Rev 11:8). Another example, Jesus said, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. John explained, But he spake of the temple of his body. (John 2:19). The three scriptures he cites for proof when examined, prove something totally different. Revelation 11:1-2 speaks of the Temple of God in Jerusalem, the & quot ;altar& quot ; and & quot ;them that worship therein.& quot ; It also speaks of the & quot ;court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.