By
Dr. M.A. Petillo & Reformed Baptist Preacher
“Now
it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month,
while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I
saw visions of God.” (Ezekiel 1:1 NASB).
1. The biblical
times are unequaled, unabbable and unmatchable because of the divine revelation
in the infallible written Word that make-up the divine Scriptures for how
someone is right with a holy God and godly Christian living.
2. The biblical
times are unequaled because of God’s divine and Spirit-led superintendence that
makes the sixty-six books of the Bible spiritually unique but separate from all
so-called religious books.
3. The biblical
times are unaddable because of God’s meticulous superintendence in the outcome
of His written divine revelation.
4. The biblical
times are unmatchable because of the authentic uniqueness of genuine revelation
that nothing compares because of the Father’s design of special revelation in
the Bible alone.
5. Ezekiel
encountered a holy Triune God on the thirtieth year which is a number designed
to point to the majesty of God.
6. Beloved John
suffered exile on Patmos where he wrote the Book of Revelation
but Ezekiel seemed to be among exiles as he viewed the visions of God.
7. The heavens
were miraculously opened and God’s divine handiwork danced in the sky in divine
revelation.
8. God’s
general revelation is His handiwork where He pictured His divine revelation
concerning special revelation.
9. The heavens
were opened when King Jesus bodily ascended into heaven as He opened up the
heavens in splendor of His intrinsic Incarnate Aseity where He ascended up in
His own power, authority and good pleasure at the command of the Father.
10.
The heavens opened up because of the command of the
Father.
11.
The heavens opened up because of the work of the Son.
12.
The heavens opened up because of Dove of God parts the
clouds to bestow Himself on all of His elect to bring them safely to Himself
unto everlasting mercy.
13.
The bodily ascension of Jesus Christ raises above the
darkness as Incarnate Light that shines from the heavens to sit enthroned to
intercede for His elect people alone unto eternal mercy.
14.
The Triune God created the heavens and the earth.
15.
The Triune God created space, planets and stars.
16.
The Triune God created the divine place of eternal
heaven.
17.
Heaven is the place of the glory of God unto eternal
mercy.
18.
The heavens open every time for those who die that are
precious in His sight where they are taken to Himself by Jesus Christ with
angel armies in everlasting glory unto perfected mercy in exaltation of the
eternal Son for the sake of His unmatchable merits imputed from the gift of the
Spirit of God.
19.
The Spirit of God descended from heaven upon Jesus
Christ, God the Son, in the baptism of John the Baptist.
20.
The baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist that was
the Father’s public approbation of the ministry of Jesus Christ before it began
by the descending Spirit of God upon the eternal God-man where no one else is
the well-beloved of the Father in the ultimate sense of the centrality of the
Triune Godhead.
21.
The Spirit of God comes upon reprobates like Balaam
but He does not indwell them as regenerate people of God.
22.
The heavens opening is much like the eternal
only-begotten Son of God, God the Son, descending down from heaven by the gift
of the Spirit of God.
23.
The Father spoke of incarnation in the over-shadowing
of the Spirit of God upon a fallen holy creature in the all-exclusive miraculous
conception of Jesus Christ in the Virgin Mary.
24.
The heavens parted for Jesus Christ in His bodily
ascension but the heavens never parted for the Virgin Mary in Rome’s bodily
assumption but the Father’s eternal Son received her into glory as a spirit in
the intermediate state where now she does not hold the rights to the crown but as
a fallen creature she casts it at the feet of Jesus Christ alone because He
alone has the rights to the crown in glorious splendor.
25.
The heavens never parted for Muhammad in his alleged
bodily ascension but descended into the abyss as a false prophet that knew not
the Father, nor the Son, nor the obeyed the gospel.
26.
Jesus Christ is the eternal essence of the clouds of
glory where He is not reflected glory but Incarnate Glory.
27.
Clouds of darkness are clouds of judgment around the
presence of a holy God who is day-by-day angry with the sinfulness of sin.
28.
There is an outer darkness of the place of hell.
29.
The outer darkness of hell is alive that engulfs
sinners into the agony of terror, the terror of horror, and the horror of
misery.
30.
The glory of the Father is the unified imputation of
the Son.
31.
The Father has the eternal Personhood of the essence
of eternal glory unto His design of justice or mercy.
32.
The Son has the eternal Personhood of the essence of
eternal glory just like the Spirit of God unto the work of carrying the gift of
the Son to His beloved elect unto everlasting mercy.
33.
There is a Triune Glory of the Father, Son and Spirit.
34.
The Triune Glory is from God the Father as the First
Person of the Trinity, the Son as the Second Person of the Trinity and the
Spirit as the Third Person of the Trinity.
35.
There is a Triune Glory of the Triune Godhead that
opens up the heavens at His command to bring glory to Himself because He always
does whatsoever is right.
36.
The clouds of glory are the design of the Father.
37.
The clouds of glory are the unified work of the Son.
38.
The clouds of glory are the regenerating and
sanctifying work of the Spirit of God that brings the gift of the Word.
39.
The heavens are the design of the Triune Godhead unto
His glory according to His good pleasure.
40.
The people of God will be bodily taken into heaven at
the Second Coming of Jesus Christ (known as the Rapture) where He comes to
judge the world at the Last Day in righteousness because the Father has given
all judgment to the Son alone where He will acquit those of imputation of His
Son and damn those who wear the robes of wrath due to their covering of
spiritual soot.
41.
The elect angels ascend and descend upon Jacob’s
latter.
42.
The fulfillment of Jacob’s latter is Jesus Christ
because angels ascend and descend upon the eternal Son of Man.
43.
At the command of Jesus as the Incarnate Jacob’s
Latter, He gives elect angels His command because He is the Captain of the Lord
of Hosts that stood before Joshua in Old Testament History.
44.
The Lord Jesus may observe great warfare as the First
Cause between the elect angels in human form and reprobates, but Satan also
comes on a cloud that is an approbation of lawlessness.
45.
The glory-cloud of Jesus Christ is the glory of God
Himself as the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity.
46.
The so-called cloud of Satan is a masquerading of
light.
47.
The heavens do not part at the permission of Satan in
some sort of authority devoid of what he is allowed but at the command of the
Triune God Himself to accomplish His purposes to use Satan as an instrument of
justice upon himself and the very justice of God awaiting him at the Day of
Wrath.
48.
There are no glory clouds unto everlasting mercy in
hell but the darkness of gnashing of teeth in the covering of the flames of the
abyss in the flames of eternal hell where there is no rest, no peace, and no
comfort.
49.
The King of Glory is Jesus Christ.
50.
The King of kings is Jesus Christ.
51.
The Son of Glory is Jesus Christ.
52.
The Father of Glory is God the Father.
53.
The Spirit of Glory is God the Holy Spirit.
54.
The elect angels are angels of glory.
55.
The angels of glory are the angels before the Triune
Majesty where they never stop singing “holy, holy, holy.”
56.
What put the heavens in the sky? It was the Hand of Jesus!
57.
What shapes a cloud into a cloud? It is the Fingertips of Jesus!
58.
The Hand of Jesus crafts the new born unto the glory
of the Son like aborted little children upon the clouds of peace because He
remembers when He was molded by His own precedence of divine authority into a
new born baby unto a sinless humanity under the command of the Father by the
approbation of the Spirit of God.
59.
The glory of the Father is God the Father.
60.
The glory of the Son is God the Son.
61.
The glory of the Spirit is God the Spirit.
62.
The visions of God in divine Scripture are unaddable.
63.
The visions of God in the divine Word are unmatchable.
64.
What compares to visions of God in Scripture? Nothing!
65.
What is the sole infallible authority on visions? Scripture!
66.
The visions of God in the inerrant Scriptures are
perfectedly preserved by the Spirit of God like nothing in all the universe.
67.
The glory of Jesus is about the ultimate crown of
glory!
68.
The ultimate crown of glory is the sole supremacy of
Jesus!
69.
Do Roman visions add to the Bible? By no means!
70.
What is the difference between biblical revelation in
the miracles of the New Testament and post-bible “miracles?” It is simply that the Old & New Testament
is God-breathed but post-bible “miracles” are not God-breathed.
71.
Rome’s so-called
visions disprove the biblical Scriptures but authentic visions of Jesus outside
the Bible do not add to the Bible but confirm the Bible as the unaddable,
unequaled and unmatchable Bible alone!
72.
Visions of God in Scripture teach us about God’s
wisdom.
73.
The river of life is in every heart of God’s people.
74.
The river of life is Jesus Christ.
75.
The river of life is a way of peace for God’s people.
76.
God’s people are for the peace of God through Jesus.
77.
Jesus brings the peace of God by His work to the
Father.
78.
The Book that is the Bible alone provides the only
safe divine revelation of God about the visions of God that is purely objective
but not subjective.
79.
That which is subjective is based on fallible, sinful
and fallen human experience.
80.
That which is based on infallible, inerrant and
supreme superintendence by the Spirit of God is alone trustworthy for how to be
right with God and godly Christian living.
81.
The subjective is not outside God’s control but is
used by a holy Triune God unto justice for those of the children of Satan.
82.
The objective is immediately caused by God where holy
men of old wrote by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
83.
Only that which is God-breathed has the power to
change hearts and minds unto an everlasting mercy that is all about the glory
of the eternal and everlasting and honorable Son.
84.
If God is in control unto this Good Book, what
possible reason could there be for you to dishonor Jesus by disobeying what it
says in the design of the Father through exalting His Son by the work of the
Spirit in perfectly preserving the pure words of God?
85.
If God foredetermined all things, shouldn’t we be
confident that God has provided internal and external evidence that
demonstrates the unanimously true bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ among
those of the Spirit that show the reliability of His unified work that is how
someone is right with God and godly living that is always about the honor of
Jesus Christ?
86.
What of cessation?
It simply means that biblical miracles are precisely for biblical times
but true miracles outside the Scriptures are a thing of rarity but they can
happen.
87.
The rarity of a miracle does not deny the doctrine of
cessation.
88.
Anything that adds to Scripture nullifies the divine
gospel.
89.
Anything that takes away from Scripture muddles the
message.
90.
The doctrine of cessation will end when we partake of
glory.
91.
Those appointed for everlasting glory unto mercy will
be always in the immediate presence of the Triune Majesty.
92.
The clouds of glory are for those glorified unto mercy
forever.
93.
The people of God in glory will wear robes of white.
94.
Robes of white are all about Jesus Christ alone
without denying the Father who designed it and the Spirit who applies it.
95.
A Triune God removes the cloud of darkness from every
converted elect sinner regarding the hearts in monergistic regeneration by the
Spirit of God and the Word of God.
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