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Illus: Dying and going to heaven—never looks like
is one magnificient vision of the Father and the Son in heaven.
Desire to know unknown things is the practice of divination.
Which is forbidden by Scripture.
What Scripture does make clear is that Jesus is Lord and history is moving to His return.
Again—OT background and imagery are key in understanding the present chapter.
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is one magnificient vision of the Father and the Son in heaven.
is one magnificient vision of the Father and the Son in heaven.
The focus in chapter 5 shifts from creation to redemption and re-creation.
God’s purposes of redemption and rule can only be accomplished through a worthy individual—Jesus Christ.
Jesus is both the Lion of Judah: who wars against God’s enemies and the Lamb: who has been slain, who purchased his people with his blood.
Only God in his Trinitarian fulness can achieve these unbelievable purposes.
The Spirit of God 5:6 is the horns and eyes of the Lamb.
5:1-5 Jesus is the Lord of History.
The Scroll— Daniel 12:4
The Scroll is a heavenly book containing God’s plan and the destiny of the world.
The unsealing of the book implies the accomplishment of the things that God has purposed.
judgement and redemption
John weeps because he longs for God’s purposes to be complete.
Remember how Jesus teaches us to pray.
God’s purposes cannot come to fruition without an obedient man/Son.
Whereas Adam failed, Christ redeems.
A human person had to open the book because the promise was made to humanity
Through Christ this world will be made anew and the purposes of Adam and the Exodus will be fulfilled which will lead us to praise.
The Scroll then contains God’s covenant and plan for history.
Written on both sides like
The Scroll then contains God’s plan for history.
Written on both sides like
Front and back indicate completeness.
God’s plan contains ll of the details.
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John was weeping because his destiny, the church’s destiny and the destiny of the universe hand in limbo if one cannot open the scroll.
An elder (angel) points out to John the Lion of Judah.
The Root of David.
Genesis 49:
—David would have a descendant who would rule forever.
Jesus however is not just a descendant, he is the root.
Physical descendants were subject to their ancestors.
Not so when it comes to Christ.
David even begins to understand this
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5:6-10 Jesus is the Lord of Victory
After hearing what the elder has said you’d expect and image of a fierce warrior.
Instead, John sees a Lamb…as though it had been slain.
(Better translation is “As slain” it happened).
Vision of the paradox of the mystery of the Christian faith.
The people of God were delivered not by fireworks, bombs, and a mighty army…but through the weakness of a crucifixion.
The world doesn’t think like this, in fact it finds it offensive.
While what Jesus did is unique it is also the pattern for the Christian life.
Humility, hospitality, forgiveness, unity, and a love for the lost and humanity.
Jesus stands at the center of the vision between the throne and the 4 creatures and the 24 elders.
Jesus is the mediator of both creation and redemption.
Colossians 1:
And the focal point of God’s plan
7 horns and 7 eyes are symbolic of his worthiness and ability.
7 spirits equal the Holy Spirit.
The Lamb takes the Scroll because he is the only one who can mediate God’s plan.
This leads to praise from the 4 creatures and the 24 elders.
Golden Bowls—tabernacle incense/prayers imagery.
The slaying of the Lamb, by crucifixion, is paradoxically the foundation for his triumph and redemption.
Of course this foolishness is anticipated in the Exodus in which lamb’s were slain in order to protect Israel from the death angel.
Redemption through the Lamb now extends to every tribe and nation on earth—fulfilling the promise given to Abraham.
Whereas Israel was called to be a kingdom of priests and failed in the OT—Jesus and the church will not fail in the New Testament.
5:11-14 Jesus is the Lord of Glory.
Here the praise extends outwardly
4-24-angelic host—heaven.
This is where history is moving…to the praise of Jesus.
Why wait?
Why not live life now to the praise and Glory of his name.
All things find their fulfillment and their true meaning of their being in a climax of service to God and revelation of his glory.
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