Day 205 - Revelation 5, Verses 1-7

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The glory of the Slain Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Redeemer, opens up before us. He has won the rights to the earthly inheritance. This wonderful chapter contains four different visions (1) “I saw” (v. 1); (2) “I saw” (v. 2); (3) “I beheld” (v. 6); (4) “I beheld” (v. 11). The One Who sits upon the throne has a “book” in His right hand. This book contains details of the future events to take place on the earth.
V.2-5 Who could be worthy to open such a book? No man was found.
V.5-7 The Lion of the tribe of Judah (Jesus) was the only One found worthy to do this! Prophesied about far back in Genesis 49:9-109Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. (Genesis 49:9‑10). It is wonderful to see how Revelation, the last Book, has some of its beginnings seen in Genesis, the first Book (See also Heb. 7:1414For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. (Hebrews 7:14)). But when John looked, he saw a Lamb as it had been slain — Jesus, of course. What a sight this must have been to the Apostle John, sitting on a tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea.