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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or the Tomb of the Unknowns is a monument dedicated to U.S. service members who have died without being identified.
It is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States of America, and it is a place of great honor and respect.
It is a very small way to show appreciation for all of the men and women that have given their lives for our country.
Those that guard the tomb, or sentinels as they are called, are soldiers of the United States Army.
It is considered one of the highest honors to serve as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
Fewer than 20 percent of all volunteers are accepted for training and of those only a fraction pass training to become full-fledged Tomb Guards.
Few people are worthy of the honor of serving as a sentinel.
But people, all people posses something that is very important.
And this thing is so important that no one on this earth is worthy of receiving it.
It is our worship.
No one is worthy of our worship except God Himself.
God is worthy of all worship.
He deserves our worship- our perfect worship.
He is worthy not only to be worshiped but to be worshiped rightly.
Sadly, most people on earth do not worship God.
And those who do give God worship, do it imperfectly.
One of the main themes of the Book of Revelation is the proper worship of God.
Revelation is an unveiling of how God will bring everything to a place of perfect worship.
Also key to understanding the book of Revelation is to understand why John wrote the book all those years ago.
The apostle John wrote the book around 95 A.D..
While exiled on the island of Patmos John received a revelation of Jesus Christ.
He received a revealing or an unveiling of what things were to take place and this unveiling was centered on the person of Christ.
And John wrote down this revelation and sent it to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia.
It is important to realize that the book of Revelation was addressed to seven local NT churches- to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.
Why did John do that?
What was his purpose in sending this revelation to these churches?
First of all these churches were experiencing persecution for their faith.
Jesus sends this message to the church in Smyrna:
Rev 2.
Secondly, these churches have gone backwards spiritually.
They were failing at the task of worshiping God rightly.
Multiple times Jesus says this to these churches:
They had abandoned their first love
Some held to false teaching
They tolerated sin
They were living as if spiritually dead
Perhaps a good summary of these churches in the description of the church in Laodicea
Rev 3.
So John is writing to a group of persecuted churches who are declining spiritually- they are not worshiping God they way He deserves.
John is writing to them to encourage them and challenge them by making known the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the end times.
In the revelation of the last times John makes known that God will win the victory, that He will bring justice to the world, and that the believer has an eternal glory awaiting- so be faithful and worship God rightly.
One of the passages in Revelation that puts on display what proper worship looks like in and 5.
The first question we need to ask, is what does proper worship look like?
What is the goal for worship?
What kind of worship is God worthy of?
Rev 4.2
Who is the one that sits on the throne?
God the Father.
The almighty God Himself.
Now John is going to do his very best to describe what this vision looked like.
He is as descriptive as possible, but mere human words cannot do justice to this kind of heavenly scene.
Imagine finding a group of people that have lived their entire life underground- they have never seen the sun.
Now imagine trying to explain to them the most beautiful sunset you have ever seen.
You would try your best, but words are just unable to capture the glory of the perfect sunset.
This is the difficulty John is having only multiplied by infinity.
So as you listen to this awesome description by John just realize when we get to heaven it will be like seeing the sunset for the first time.
Revelation 4.3-
Skip down to vs. 8 and notice the quality of worship on display here.
This is the kind of worship that God deserves.
This is the kind of worship that God will one day bring everything into perfect conformity to this kind of worship.
answers the question:
How will God do that?
How will God bring everything to a place of perfect worship?
Answer: Through the person of Jesus Christ.
There is no one else.
No one else is able or worthy to bring about God’s plan for perfect worship.
Christ alone is worthy!
What about Christ makes Him worthy to bring about perfect worship?
I believe we find three reasons that makes Christ worthy to bring about perfect worship.
Christ is worthy to bring about perfect worship:
I.
Because of His humanity
A. John’s reason for weeping
Rev 5.1-
Book = scroll
This scroll was sealed with 7 seals.
Don’t think this when you picture this scroll.
Think about it like this.
Notice the problem that follows:
No one is worthy to break the seals and read the contents of the scroll.
Now back in the day when they used to use scrolls and seals, you could not break a seal and read the contents of a scroll unless you had the authority to do so.
So maybe a scroll was delivered and the soldier who received it had the ability/authority/he was worthy to break the first seal of the scroll.
He could then unroll the scroll and read the contents until he got to the second seal.
Maybe the second seal was above his pay grade.
He no longer has the authority to continue reading, he has to go and find someone else who has the ability/ or who is worthy to break the next seal and so on and so on.
The other important piece of information about this scroll is that breaking the seals and reading the scroll actually carried out the orders on the scroll.
It wasn’t just reading words, it was putting orders into motion.
Illustration: A sergeant reading orders to his squad.
He isn’t just reading words, he is putting into action the words on the scroll.
By his authority he is putting something into effect.
In this heavenly scene no man is found worthy to either break the seals of this scroll, and by inference, no man is able to put into action the things written on the scroll.
Upon realizing this problem John begins to weep.
Rev 5.
Now why was John weeping?
Was it because of the moral inability of all created beings?
No man was found worthy.
I think this reason is too superficial to to be plausible.
Was it
What it because this revelation was going to be withheld from his knowledge?
Again I think John’s tears are deeper than that.
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