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He Is Risen!
He is Risen!
I don’t know about you… but when someone says “Open to the book of Revelation” I start getting a little antsy…
Revelation is that book that attracts all kinds of speculation…
Wild theories…
People start talking about popes and presidents and people you’ll never find on the pages of scripture…
Counting moon cycles and worst of all – doing math.
At least one of you – when I said that we’d be reading from Revelation – groaned in your mind,
You can admit it...
And whined to yourself, “but I don’t want to do math!”
Good news – no math today.
No popes, presidents or moons.
Just the lamb that was slain.
The author of Revelation is a man named John, who lives on the island of Patmos
That’s actually about all we know about him.
He is believed to have been a respected Christian leader in a time in Rome when Christians were persecuted.
And he is telling us of his vision,
The Throne Room of God
And at this part of the vision, he is standing in the throne room of God.
But actually, if we back up to chapter 4, John gives an awesome description of the throne room of God.
And it’s overwhelming and magnificent – and you can tell as you read it that it is beyond John’s full comprehension…
Because he describes a throne in the middle,
He says there is the One on the throne,
That’s all he says – He’s talking about God, but just says “the One.”
It’s like words fail to describe Him,
And there’s no way we can fully grasp Him.
And the closest John can come is just to say “the One.”
The One is seated on the throne.
and the one on it has the appearance of jasper and ruby… like the person could be seen but not fully comprehended.
And in the throne room are flashes of lightning,
And rolls thunder,
lamps blazing,
And there are four creatures flying around the throne,
And they are described much like the seraphim in Isaiah 6, and sing the same song…
“Holy, Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
They sing this song always – day and night, they never stop singing these praises,
Worshipping the One on the throne.
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And beyond these four creatures are 24 Elders
And they are falling down before him, laying their crowns at His feet, praising.
He starts in the center and then just peals back each layer.
The One,
The Creatures,
The Elders.
All saying “HHH is the LGA, WWaIaItC”
In Chapter 5, all of creation joins in these praises,
Everything on the earth and under the earth and in the sea,
All joining together to sing praises.
How many of you thought we started the worship service at 10:45am this morning?
I think John challenges that notion.
We didn’t start the worship service – we joined it.
John of Patmos tells us that it’s been going on for a very long time.
The Throne Room of God
And with that description, John’s focus returns to the One who is on the throne,
And he tells us about a scroll that is in His right hand.
With 7 Seals.
And an angel proclaims loudly, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?
That number 7 – the number of seals on the cross - is significant in Jewish thought.
When you hear the number 7 – you think about Creation, the seven days.
This scroll represents re-creation.
The scroll with seven seals represents God’s intentions for the world.
It represents creation being remade according to God’s intentions for it.
Represents all of history coming to God.
It represents all of God’s efforts throughout all of scripture, to make a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation,
The KOG
Being fulfilled.
The Throne Room of God
Later chapters of Revelation describe this more fully.
If you go home today craving a peak into what the fulfillment of all things looks like,
And what the world looks like when the seals have been opened…
Read Revelation 21.
An angel proclaims loudly, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?
And John looks around and sees that no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth is worthy to open the scroll,
And he weeps.
He falls apart.
Is there really no one who can set the world right?
Is there no one to restore us to God?
No one to bring justice to creation!
Because if there is no one…
The hungry will remain hungry,
The poor will remain poor,
The broken will remain broken.
Victims of injustice will forever remain victims.
There is no politic or system or powerful person who can accomplish these things.
In 2,000 years of human history since the death and resurrection of Jesus,
The world has not succeeded in fixing itself.
And when John looks around and sees that there is no one fit to open the scrolls, he just weeps.
There is no hope.
The Throne Room of God
And John’s tears are shared tears.
He’s not just crying for him, he’s crying for us.
He’s crying WITH us.
He’s crying with all humanity as we all together plead with the heavens,
MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
End the suffering!
Brokenness!
Pain! Injustice!
Let there be no more victims!
End the extreme poverty,
End the deaths of innocent children,
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