Lesson 8-2

The Figurative Blind, Deaf

and Clothes
Main Reference: Rev. 3:17-18
 Night Day Night Day

7 Rv. 10:1-2
Is. 29:9-14 Lk. 24:44, Jn 9:4-5 Rv. 5:1-3 Open Scroll (Fulfillment)
Sealed Scroll Fulfillment Sealed Book 7

Time of Jesus’ He gave 2nd Coming

1st Coming fulfillment Rv. 1:20
Time of New Covenant fulfillment
Moses
Lamp: John Baptist
Dt. 29:3-4
One who Prepares the Way
Heb 10:1

Lampstand: spirit or worker

Physical Characteristics:
- Blind: With eyes but Cannot see
- Deaf: With ears but cannot hear
- Clothes: To cover Nakedness
= who cannot understand God’s word

Lev 21:18 Blind cannot come near

Heb 10:1 Law: Shadow
Dt 29:3-4 X eyes, X ears
Is29:9-13
Eyes: Sealed à Prophets Words: Sealed
Heads: Covered àSeers (cannot
understand)

Is42:18-19 God’s servant/messenger

Is35:5 Eyes & ears will be opened
Mt13:11, 13 You (O see, hear)
Them (X see, hear)
Mt13:16-17 Blessed: Eyes that can see
Ears that can hear
2Cor3:13-16 Veil is taken away
Mt11:4-5 Work of Jesus
Rom13:11-12 Wear armor of light
(understand the revealed word)
Jn9:4-5 Night is coming: X work
Why?
Dn12:4, 9-10, Rv5:1-3 Word: sealed
Jn16:25 Time to speak plainly
How?
Rv10:1-2, 8-11; Rv22:10 Scroll: will be opened
“Do not seal up”
Jn9:39-41 Blind → see
Who see → blind
Confess:
Blind → not guilty of sin
Claim to see → guilt remains
The True meaning Clothes
= Word and Righteous Actions
Old Testament
(Physical Israel)
Ex28. Priest garments: Ephod
Heb. 8:5 copy & shadow
Mal. 2:5-7 Priest: messenger of the Lord Almighty
New Testament
(Spiritual Israel)
Eph. 6:12-17 put on the full armor of God
Rom. 13:11-12 put on the armor of light
v. 14 clothe yourself with Jesus
Mt22 Wedding clothes
Rv 19:13 Robed dipped in Blood: word of God
Rv. 19:8 Fine linen, bright & clean: Righteous Acts
Ps. 119:9 To be pure: Live according to the Word
Rv. 3:4-5 Those who did not soiled their clothes
Rv. 7:13-14 Robed Washed by the Blood: Word of God
Rv. 22:14 Blessed Those who wash their robes
Rv. 16:15 Blessed: One who keeps his clothes
 Revelation 3:17-18
17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do

not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you

are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I
counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the
fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to
wear, so you can cover your shameful
nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you
can see.
 Leviticus 21:18
18No man who has any defect may come near: no man
who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;
 Isaiah 29:9-13
9 Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be

sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not

from beer. 10 The LORD has brought over you a deep
sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has
covered your heads (the seers).
 Isaiah 29:9-13
11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed

in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who

can read, and say to him, "Read this, please," he will
answer, "I can't; it is sealed.“ 12 Or if you give the scroll
to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this,
please," he will answer, "I don't know how to read.“
 Isaiah 29:9-13
13 The Lord says: "These people come near to me with

their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their

hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up
only of rules taught by men.
 Isaiah 42:18-19
18 "Hear, you deaf; look, you blind, and see! 19 Who is

blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I

send? Who is blind like the one committed to me, blind
like the servant of the LORD?
 Isaiah 35:5
Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
 Matthew 13:11
11 He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the

kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to

them.
Matthew 13:13
13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
 Matthew 13:16-17
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your

ears because they hear. 17 For I tell you the truth, many
prophets and righteous men longed to see what you
see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but
did not hear it.
 Matthew 11:4-5
4 Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you

hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk,
those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear,
the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed
to the poor.
 Daniel 12:9-10
9 He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words

are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. 10

Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but
the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the
wicked will understand, but those who are wise will
understand.
 Revelation 5:1-3
1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the

throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed

with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel
proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break
the seals and open the scroll?“ 3 But no one in heaven
or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or
even look inside it.
 John 16:25
25 “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is

coming when I will no longer use this kind of language

but will tell you plainly about my Father.
 Revelation 10:8-11
8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke

to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in

the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and
on the land.”
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the

little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will

turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be
as sweet as honey.”
 Revelation 10:8-11
10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate

it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when

I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then I was
told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples,
nations, languages and kings.”
 Revelation 22:10
10 Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the

prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near.

 John 9:39-41
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this

world, so that the blind will see and those who see
will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say

this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”

41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be

guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your
guilt remains.
 Romans 13:14
14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus

Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the

desires of the flesh.
 Revelation 19:13
13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his

name is the Word of God.

 Revelation 19:8
Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear."
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
 Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living
according to your word.
 Revelation 3:4-5
4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not

soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in

white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who is
victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will
never blot out the name of that person from the book
of life, but will acknowledge that name before my
Father and his angels.
 Revelation 7:13-14
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white

robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”

14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”

And he said, “These are they who have come out of the
great tribulation; they have washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
 Revelation 22:14
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may
have the right to the tree of life and may go through the
gates into the city.
 Revelation 16:15
15 “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who

stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked

and be shamefully exposed.”