The Book of Revelation -- Part 7 -- The Worthy Lamb

Revelation chapter 5 is a continuation of the vision that starts in chapter 4 but the focus then turns to Christ -- the Worthy Lamb.

The vision starts with a scroll with seven seals. As each seal is broken it would reveal more of the contents of the scroll. If we were reading this for the first time we would not know what the contents would reveal. The scroll is in God's hand and he is looking for someone worthy to open it. Nobody is found to do this and John weeps about it.

This brings up an interesting question of when this happens. I don't think it is a future event based on John's involvement -- this vision seems to be an actual event in heaven with John witnessing it and having real responses to it at that moment. The vision also has no future tense to the events. It is not necessary for this to be the case because the issue is the worthiness off the Lamb.

What ultimately happens is the lion of the Tribe of Judah is declared the worthy one -- the Lamb and He takes the scroll then the whole of heaven worships Him.

As turn to the original readers all of them would be struck by one thing -- the Christ that everyone of them was supposed to be worshiping was the only one worthy of worship. The other thing is that those that worship him have been exalted. No matter which of the seven churches they were in they would have been in awe of who their Lord was and who they the should have been giving their full devotion to in the first place. The vision makes it exclusive to one being in all the universe who is worthy and deserving of their full devotion and worship.

Next: The Seals are Opened -- The Four Horsemen