Revelation 1:12 “And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;”

“And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.”

So now John is turning behind to see the voice that’s speaking with him. Who’s this voice?

“And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;”

So he looks around him and saw the seven golden candlesticks.

Revelation 1:13 “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”

“And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man,”

In the middle of the seven golden candlesticks, he sees one likened to the Son of man, that’s Jesus Christ.

If we want to witness to an Old Testament Jew today and he refuses to believe in the New Testament, we can still refer to Jesus Christ here because of the title ‘Son of man’. If we look at the book of Daniel, there is no doubt about that. The title of ‘Son of man’ is all over the book of Daniel.

“clothed with a garment down to the foot,”

He’s wearing a garment that’s all the way down to the feet.

“and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”

He’s girding about himself, it’s kind of like a belt buckle, so to speak.

Pap is where we get the interesting phrase from papa, because that’s where birth comes from. That’s where we get the idea of why the pope wants to be called papa because he’s the holy father. But Jesus Christ is the one who gets that title, not the pope.

Revelation 1:14 “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;”

His head and hair are really white and His eyes are literally like a flame of fire.

Notice that this is totally different from those pretty paintings where Jesus looks like an effeminate sissy with long pretty hair. Here, this is one scary Jesus. When Jesus comes down, people are going to be looking for a pretty looking, effeminate Jesus like the Antichrist who is a homosexual, when the Antichrist comes down they’re all going to mistake him as Jesus. And when Jesus comes down with fire and vengeance like this, people are going to go ‘That cannot be Jesus’.

A lot of people only look at the loving side of Jesus but they don’t look at the holiness of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 1:15 “And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.”

“And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace;”

So, He’s really shining here and His feet are like unto fine brass.

There’s a heretical group called Black Hebrew Movement and they use verses 14 and 15 to prove that Jesus is a black man. No one would get that from reading the verse unless they’re deliberately reading the verse to try to find something that matches their agenda. Their reasoning is that verse 14 says that His hair is so white so He must have dark skin and in verse 15 ‘burned in the furnace-like fine brass’ so it shows that He’s dark. This lacks common sense, if we ever see a brass burning in a furnace, it’s brighter. If they really want to go by the interpretation that burn in furnace means black, they just admitted they’re from Ham’s seed. Ham means black, burnt.

“and his voice as the sound of many waters.”

This is some God. His voice sounds like many waves crashing. This is His holiness and the majestic God that we’re seeing right here.

Revelation 1:16 “And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”

“And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword:”

In His right hand, He has seven stars and outside His mouth goes this sword and it’s two-edged. That’s the word of God right there because the book of Hebrews chapter 4 mentions that the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. If we compare the same verse with Revelation 19, the Bible says he comes down with the sword out of his mouth and he wipes out his enemies, we’ll also notice that his name is called the word of God.

“and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”

His overall appearance is like the sun brightly shining.

If we compare that with Malachi 4, notice that while reading through Revelation 1:13-16, that is not some black Jesus coming out, it is talking about Him coming down at Armageddon. If we want to look at a black Jesus, we’re disgracing His holy side. Here is Armageddon where He gets back what rightfully belongs to Him, where He casts judgment upon sin and established His holiness.

Malachi 4:1 “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”

This is when God comes down and judges His enemies, Armageddon.

Malachi 4:2-3 “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.”

This is all Armageddon.

Revelation 1:13-15 talks about Armageddon. The real Jesus is scary, frightful, and holy in His majesty.

Revelation 1:17 “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:”

“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.”

No kidding because this Jesus has a dreadful countenance.

“And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not;”

That’s Jesus Christ, what He will do is He calms a storm in our lives. Every time God manifests Himself to people, people get scared because that’s how majestic, awesome and holy God’s presence is but we’ll notice in the middle of that, where God is so awesome, so many millennia and eons above us, that He would take His right hand, pat us on the head and say ‘Fear not’. That’s why we shouldn’t be scared of Him but if we’re against this being, we have every right to be scared. That’s why when the world attacks us and attacks Jesus Christ, we shouldn’t be scared because we got someone scarier behind us.