Esther 9 & 10, Revelation 5: Proverbs 25: 21-28
Revelation 5: 5-6 (ESV)
“And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold,
the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he
can open the scroll and its seven seals.” And between the throne and the four
living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had
been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits
of God sent out into all the earth.”
In verses 5 and 6 from Revelation, we see the elder
responding to John when he weeps that no one is able to able to look or open up
the scrolls. The elder tells John that the Lion of the tribe of Judah can open
up the scroll and its seven seals. Many Bible commentators have said that this Lion
of the tribe of Judah is Jesus Christ, since the next thing John sees is a slain
lamb. I love that it is only Christ who can open the scrolls with seven seals. We
don’t really what is written in the scroll with the seven seals, only that only
Christ is the only person who can open the scroll and break the seven seals. Because
Christ is the only person who can open the scroll, we can see this detail as
further evidence that Jesus Christ was and is the son of God.
It must have been such an unusual and frightening sight for
John to see a slain lamb with seven horns and seven eyes. Did John know
immediately that the lamb represented Jesus Christ? John had known Jesus Christ
when he had been alive, so seeing a slain lamb must have been a shock for him or
at least bring back to him the traumatic memories of Christ dying on the cross.
John’s traumatic memories were I hope made better when he heard Christ being
sung to and worshipped by the angels and the living creatures around the
throne.
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