Seeking_Thy_Kingdom
Puritan Board Sophomore
The four animals mean the Assembly of the chosen, the redeemed, as is declared in Revelation 5:8,9. This is the meaning of the vision up to this point: that soon the Jewish people will be taken over by a severe storm; and that those who remain after the war, even though in sorrow, will still be protected by God, and that God still lives amongst them, but not in open revelation, and yet not without majesty and glory and in displays of His power, to show that His wrath will not to consume them all; but that He would rather be a light to them, and a flame of love that awaits them. But indeed to others God’s riches shall be revealed in the sending of the Angel of Testament to show the righteousness and holiness of God, and even His mercy, and He will be mostly praised for this joy; that the Church will be made alive by God, and in the same way the Kingdom of Christ, and that the Holy Angels will be the servants of Christ to the salvation of the elect.
Johannes Coccejus, De prophetie van Ezechiel, 1692
Johannes Coccejus, De prophetie van Ezechiel, 1692