10-15-26 Study of Revelation Chapter 5:8-14 A Vision Of A Lamb Part 3

➡ In our Thursday Bible study, we’re discussing the book of Revelation, specifically the end of Chapter 5. This chapter is crucial for understanding the rest of the book. We’re also going to explore the rapture of the church and the timing of events from Chapter 6 onwards. The study will also touch on the possibility of us living in the last days, as suggested by current events and biblical prophecies.
➡ The text discusses a religious narrative where a scroll, representing the universe’s title deed, is held by God. This scroll, sealed seven times, can only be opened by someone worthy. Initially, no one is found worthy, causing despair. However, Jesus Christ, symbolized as a lamb, is eventually recognized as the worthy one due to his overcoming of death and sin, and his royal lineage. He is seen as the perfect heir of God, capable of enacting the scroll’s contents and reclaiming the universe.
➡ Jesus, referred to as the Lamb, takes a scroll from God, marking a significant moment in human history. This act signifies the start of the recovery of a universe lost to sin and evil. As Jesus unrolls the scroll, beings in the universe praise him, marking a transition of power from God to his Son. This event leads to a time of worship and praise, with the 24 elders (representing the church) playing harps, an instrument associated with prophecy in the Bible.
➡ The text discusses the symbolic significance of harps and golden bowls in biblical prophecy. Harps represent the prophecies and revelations predicting the end times, while golden bowls filled with incense symbolize the prayers of saints throughout history, longing for redemption. These symbols indicate that all prophecies are about to come true and all prayers for ultimate redemption are about to be answered. The text emphasizes the importance of these symbols in understanding the unfolding of biblical prophecy and the fulfillment of prayers.
➡ This text discusses the symbolic imagery in the book of Revelation, where prayers of the saints are represented as incense and thrown back to earth as judgment. It also explores the roles of various figures, such as the 24 elders and the four living creatures, in this divine narrative. The text further delves into the concept of angels singing, suggesting that they might have sung at creation and possibly again when the fall of man is reversed. Lastly, it explores the idea that music, with its major and minor chords, reflects the joy and sorrow of creation.
➡ The text discusses the concept of redemption and the joy it brings, symbolized through the metaphor of a new song. It suggests that only those who have experienced redemption, such as humans who have been saved, can truly understand and express this joy. Angels, despite their divine nature, cannot comprehend this feeling as they have never fallen or been redeemed. The text also explores the idea that Jesus Christ, through his sacrifice, has purchased humanity from sin, enabling them to sing this new song of redemption.
➡ The text discusses the concept of redemption, stating that it extends to every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. It emphasizes that Jesus Christ’s sacrifice was sufficient for the whole world, providing universal redemption. However, only some from each group can enjoy its reality. The text also highlights the joy and hope brought by the promise of a gathering of redeemed people from all over the globe. The redeemed are made a kingdom and priests to God, signifying complete access to God’s presence for worship, praise, and service.
➡ The text discusses the importance of recognizing and praising the Lamb (God) for his qualities such as power, wealth, wisdom, strength, holiness, divine majesty, and perfection. It emphasizes that every creature, not just humans, should sing praises to God. The text also explores the idea of the entire universe joining in this praise, with the anticipation of the reversal of the curse and the coming of God’s reign. The discussion ends with a call for worship and adoration of God and the Lamb, highlighting their worthiness of endless blessing, honor, praise, glory, and worship.
➡ The speaker shares their personal struggle and how they found solace in faith and prayer. They express gratitude for their life and acknowledge their ongoing spiritual journey. They also discuss the potential negative influence of certain types of music, suggesting it could have a harmful impact on listeners. The speaker concludes with a prayer for guidance, peace, and understanding for themselves and others.

Foreign. This is our Thursday night Bible study. We’re. We’re in the book of Revelation. We’re going to take up the last part associated with chapter five in looking at John’s vision of the Lamb. And we’re going to, we’re going to do a review just like normal. And we’re going to set in motion then to look at this, this crescendo of praise or worship. And I’m going to try to put this in a. In a picture setting for you so that you could actually maybe experience it a little differently. But we’re gonna end tonight Chapter 5 of Revelation and this information that we’re going to go over and we have already gone over is absolutely crucial, informative to follow the flow of the rest of the book.

If we don’t come up through chapter five, well, we’re not going to gain the flow of the events from chapter six to the end of the end of the book. And after tonight, we’re going to break off a bit and we’re going to go and look at the rapture of the church because that’s the next event to happen from chapter five to chapter six. And, and then we’re going to break out of that. We’re going to spend about three to four weeks looking at the rapture of the church from all different angles. And then we’re going to go into Daniel so that you understand the timing of chapter six to the end of the book.

Okay? So I’m going to set. Lay all that stage out for you so that you can get your arms around it. So this is a marvelous account of God and of the Lamb that John experienced. Remember that we went through that. And I, if I were to ask a question, is it possible that we could be near the end of human history? Because that’s what we’re talking about, by the way. We’re talking about the end of human history here. Are we living in the last days? These are questions that you guys have talked about, We’ve talked about a little bit, but I just want to bring them to our forefront of our mind as we go into this.

Are we living in the last days of the last days? The timing of this, and are those great events that will culminate history loom really closely ahead as history moves on towards its ultimate end? And could it be that we are living, for example, in the last generation? We already know generation. The term generation is defined in all kinds of ways. And we know that the last generation is the church age. And that’s what we’re living in. So yes, we’re living in the last generation. And could Christ come in the next 10 years, five years, three months? What could you know, when can he come? Well, we find the answer to all of that in general, okay, as yes, we could be living in the last days.

The Bible describes the time of the end with some very general descriptions and that’s the reason why we’re going to try to narrow those down as we move into the rest of this book that certainly fit our time. We know that we’re living in the, in a time of apostasy. We know that the church is rampant in with that the nation of Israel has got their territory beginning to come back. Okay? Now we know that the nation of Israel is not the state of Israel that the RAL owns the state of Israel. Oh, by the way, did you see that the, the, the head of the head died this past week? Okay.

It was his announcement, okay, his announcement that he’s dead. He was the guy that owned the, on the state of Israel. So we know that the stage is certainly set on a political level. We know it’s set on an economical level and a military for a great world leader to take rise to bring peace in the Middle East. Well, we know that from history, but we don’t know the truth and we don’t know how it’s going to take shape as all of these, as all of these chess moves are being taken place. Remember the Abraham Accords, okay? That’s going to be critical to this process.

And we know that there’s seducing spirits and there’s doctrines of demons that seem to have reached an apex in terms of their proliferation and influence. We, we went through that in our substack about. Look, not substack but our focus studies on the return of the gods and we’re looking at the new New age movement which is all part of the same thing. And so we know that Europe is, is rivet in all of this. And as Daniel said would come in the time of the end. We know that we have false prophets that are abound. We know where we have those in the pulpit of the church.

Immorality has brought the world to at least the same point it was at when the Lord drowned the whole of humanity in the time of the flood of Genesis. We’re getting close to be just like Noah getting close to me. So all of those things are there in front of us and it tells us that we could well be standing on the brink of a divine wrath. But as we know no man knows the day, nor the hour of the coming of the Son of Man, which is Jesus Christ. And so we cannot speculate. We just can go with the facts as presented from Scripture.

The facts as we see in, in understanding the times, the seasons, as Scripture tells us to do, and begin to look to areas because we have a sick. We have somewhat of a sequencing of events that have to take place in order for us to get to that. But the only person that knows is God. And nobody else knows, not even his Son. So we don’t know the time. And we can discern the scene around us and perhaps have a greater sense of anticipation than our past generations have had. But the reality is that only God knows the correct timing.

And while we don’t know the time of the end, we must understand that it could be at any time, very near. Okay? Elements of this could happen really quick. And we are not given the time of the end in Scripture, but we were given a description of the event. See, then that’s what we’re going to go over. We’re going to go over the events, we’re going to go over timetables as best as we can come up through Scripture without, without speculation of, of such. And the unfolding of the wrath of God at the end of human history and the establishing of the kingdom of Christ is described for us in amazing detail in the rest of the book of Revelation.

Now there are some indications of it given in Ezekiel. We’re going to study some Ezekiel. There are some indication is given in Daniel. There are some indications given particularly in the book of Zechariah. We’re going to go into Zechariah as well. And there’s some reference to it in both Matthew and Luke. We’ve got the Oliver discord, okay, that Christ gives as to the disciples about this description of the end times, what to expect. So, but the great portion of Scripture that focuses in on these events of the end of human history is this book of Revelation.

And the unfolding of the final scene here is recorded from chapter six on to the end of the book. Now we’ve been going through chapter four and five that set the stage for God coming in final judgment to take back the fallen universe and to set his king upon his holy hill in Zion to reign over the world forever. Now we know that. We already know that basically when the great Tribulation occurs and Christ does come for the second time, Daniel’s already told us that there will be a period of time of reconstruction, okay, because you know, Scripture tells you that blood’s going to flow to the horse’s neck.

So if that’s the case, there’s got to be some, some period of time to reconstruct the earth for inhabitants. And, and that’s going to happen. Daniel gave us an extra 45 days in his timeline for that to occur. And so the unfolding of this final revelation is just before us. It’s, it’s here in this book. And we now come to the last look at chapter five in moving us into the next, next event of that we’re going to look at, which would be the rapture of the church. So going back a little bit, the foundational points, you remember that in John, in chapter four was taken up into the heaven by the way of a vision.

And he saw the throne of the almighty God and he readied himself for judgment. That’s what he thought he was going to, to get. Now that was the basic scene of chapter four, him getting there and, and visualizing for us in scripture what it looked like. Okay. And now in the same setting of heaven, he then went to describe the throne of God. And we see the Lamb coming into enact the judgment and be the person who takes over the universe. So in chapter four, the focus was on God who sits on the throne. And in chapter five, the focus is now on the Lamb who, who comes to the throne and takes the scroll out of the hand of God which is the title deed to the universe, and then begins in chapter six to unroll that scroll.

And that includes a series of judgments by which he takes back the universe. Now in chapter five, in verse one, we read as I saw the right, in the right hand of the God who sat on the throne, a scroll written inside and on the back sealed up with seven seals. Now there is this seven seal scroll that is the title deed to the universe. It was rolled a little bit and then sealed. It was rolled a little bit more and then sealed. It was rolled a little bit more and was sealed again and over and over until there were seven seals.

And this, the sealed edges were done so that it couldn’t be opened without the breaking of the seal. And no one could do that except one who was authorized. That that is that what John is described is exactly the document protection that came to the Jews by the Roman Empire. That’s how they did things. So the great text inside of this scroll laid out all of the details of the taking back of the universe. It wasn’t the description of, of, of how God came to the position of being able to do that. It was just what he was going to do to take it back.

So back on the outside was written what the scroll was all about. That’s thou Roman Empire worked. And that was typical of ancient scrolls at that time that were documents involving title process. The inside had all the details, but on the outside, every one of the seals had a summary of what was contained within that scroll to the next seal. And so the father holds the scroll in his hand as much to say who will take the scroll down on my behalf and enact what it is written in it and take back what is rightfully mine.

And that leads us to the first major point in the chapter, which was the search of the worthy one. And if you recall what we studied in the beginning in verse two, and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals? Who is fit to do this? And no one in heaven, verse 3, or on earth or under the earth, was able to open the scroll or to look into it. So what John initially saw was the fact that, that he did. He couldn’t see anyone worthy.

And he began to weep, if you recall from what we went over. And in order to open the scroll and enact its contents, you had to be worthy to do that. And John didn’t see anybody. That is, you had to be the perfect heir of God to do it. In order to open the scroll and to enact its contents, you had to be able to do it. And so what we had, what we see here is somebody had to have the power of God to go do this. Who then is the perfection of God and the power of God? Well, who is it that can do this? No one in heaven, no one on earth, and no one under the earth.

That’s what John came to realize. And he began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. Now as John was weeping because he wondered if this meant that the earth would continue to be in the power of the prince of the power of the air dominated by demon forces. That’s what, that’s what John felt. He wondered whether Jesus Christ was ever going to be exalted and whether the kingdom promised to Israel was ever to come, and whether the reigning promise to all of the saints was ever going to take place.

He was in just total confusement at this point. And so he, in his sorrow of the experience of this vision, he began to weep greatly. And then we find in verse five, the second point from the search of the worthy one. We come to the selection of the worthy one. In verse five, it says this. And one of the elders said to me, saying to John, stop weeping. There’s no need for this. Behold the lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the root of David. What? He’s what. What the elders did was proclaim the entering into the scene of God’s throne room, Jesus Christ walking in.

That’s what the elder did. And so both of those we noted for you last time are titles to the Messiah giving in the Old Testament. The one who is the lion, great power and fierceness, who comes out of the Masonic tribe of Judah, and the one who is the root or offshoot or the offspring of David’s bloodline, royal blood. And we know that we, we know that Jesus got that royal blood both from his mother and his stepfather. So there was no condition that any, any dispute could be made that Jesus Christ did not fulfill the prophecy for the bloodline of David.

So he is the Messiah and, and by virtue of coming through Judah’s loins, he is the king by the virtue of coming through David’s loins, and the one who is fit to be the king by authority, and he is also fit to be king by ability. And he is fit to be king by worthiness because he has now overcome, you see, he’s overcome because he takes his role of the throne. And he, he overcomes because in his ability to overcome, as John saw it, he gives us the ability in this life to overcome through salvation, through obedience, through sanctification, and working with the Holy Spirit in control of your life.

You have the ability to overcome any situation that you’re ever in. You just have to do it. So we’ve noted that that has reference to his cross where he overcame death and he overcame Satan and he overcame the demons and he overcame sin and he overcame hell. He was. He had overcome so as to be able and worthy to open the scroll of its seven seals and stop weeping. The Messiah will do it. This is the elders telling John, you got to stop weeping, John, and look. Okay, get your eyes up and off the ground and look.

And you’re seeing, you’ll see this take shape. So in verse six, John says, I saw between the throne. Okay, there was. What did he see? He saw some something walking to the throne, but he saw it between the. The throne. Okay, so take, take a picture. Okay. It’s like looking at the throne and seeing somebody walk from behind it to it. Okay. And on in the midst of the throne, we found the Four living creatures, the four charitable, their angels, of course, and the elders who were all mingled there. Remember there. There were 24 elders thrown.

They were sitting on thrones. There were four living creatures, living beings, cherubs, angels, all mingling with the glory of God, who was flashing out his glory in brilliant red and diamond light. If you recall, we went through all of that, bouncing around, reflecting off the crystal pavement beneath the throne. And shining all through this was an emerald rainbow, okay? And flashing of lightning and thunder were cut, were coming from the throne as well. And all of that, along with the songs of praise and the anthems of praise that were singing, as it were, around him, in both melody as well as the sayings of the angels.

All of that was being done at the throne room, all of the conflux of beings and movement as described so magnificently by Ezekiel as wheels within wheels, flashing and shining. It says in the middle of all of that, in verse six, a lamb was standing. Now, John, I have to believe, had no doubt when he finally looked to see a lion. He expected to see a lion. But what he did he see? What did he see? He saw a lamb. This lamb was not down. It was not dead. It was standing. It meant it was alive.

It was standing, but it was as if it had been slain. It still bore the wounds of his death. So here was a lamb alive that had once been dead. The lamb had seven horns, speaks of perfect power. And the horn of an animal being the emblem of its power. Seven, the number of perfection. Seven eyes having to do with perfect knowledge, perfect wisdom, perfect insight, perfect ability to see and assess and understand. And those seven eyes really are, we’re told, are the sevenfold spirit of God, sent out into all the world to see what needs to be seen.

Now here’s the lamb. We know that the Lamb is worthy. The Lamb has conquered, overcome. The Lamb was slain, being the sacrifice for sin. And now we see the Lamb is now alive. The Lamb has full power. The Lamb has full understanding. And in verse seven, he came and he took out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne that little scroll. That moment is the most significant moment yet in human history. That moment when Jesus Christ takes that scroll and begins to inaugurate it, the recovery of the lost universe, lost to sin, Satan, death and hell.

And when he takes the scroll, it is for the purpose of unrolling it. And as he unrolls it and breaks the seals in chapter six begins to unfold the judgments. But before we come to that chapter, we’re Going to go through various other information points at this very moment. In John’s vision, though he is, he’s far ahead of his own time to see the scene that is yet to come. Before the Lord Jesus takes the scroll and unrolls it. There is one thing here that we must note, and that is the song of the worthy One.

All the beings in the universe break out in praise when that. When he takes that scroll. There’s several things that happen immediately. Number one, there’s a transition of God being on the throne to his Son. All of the heavens break out in praise because now the worthy one can do the final work of God the Father. And, and he comes. And what it. What happens is, is as he breaks out, as this heaven’s breaking out in praise, we get. In verse eight, it says when and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures, that’s the cherubim, the four living beings and the 24 elders, you remember, that represents the redeemed raptured church.

That’s the reason why I said the next thing that’s got to happen is the Rapture church. They fall down before the Lamb now. They fell down in worship. This is the moment for which all heaven and redeemed earth has been waiting for. Now, as we come into this song of worship, this time of praise, we begin to notice some marvelous things take place. And I wondered how long I wanted to stay in chapter five, because it’s an exhaustive list. We could be here for weeks. But I just want to go through them rapidly. And you might want to take some.

Take some time later on to do some more of your research on this because there. It’s quite an exhaustive list. And I’m going to give you some. Okay. When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders again which represent the church, fell down before the Lamb. They fall down in worship. Now notice this, having each one a harp and a golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. Now, in the text here, I would. I would prefer to take this phrase having each one a harp to refer directly to the 24 elders.

And I want to get. I’m going to tell you why it’s in my mind, the preferred interpretation, because of the structure of the sentence in terms of its grammar. It is possible that it could also reach back in time and encompass the four living beings. But it would seem to me to be the best understanding of the intent of the inspired writer that the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. Each One having one heart. Now, the Greek grammar here and layout seems to indicate just that. So here you have these representatives of the Redeemed Church and Rapture Church, each having a heart.

Now, the heart. If you go back into the Old Testament and you’ll, you’ll. We’re gonna, we’re gonna do some. Briefly, I’m gonna give you some scripture here because you can look up the harp yourself in a concordance and trace it all the way back. Okay, now remember, you’ve got the, you’ve got words in the Bible are, are primarily defined from its root in its first usage. So you find the first usage of harp in the Old Testament. So if you go back and look at that, you will find the most appropriate definition. In 1st Chronicles 25, verse 6, we have the instruction in this chapter about offering songs to the Lord.

It talks about the service of the sons of asapha in verse 1, and of, of Hammond and of Judith, and who were to prophesy with lyrics and harps and symbols. And then it goes on to list them all of. All of them there which were. There were many that did this. And down in verse six it says, and all these were under direction of their Father to sing in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lark. Now, a lyre would be a stringed instrument, much like a ukulele or a guitar or a banjo, something like that.

And, but they were, and they were also shaped differently than the harp. So you have, if you go back in history, there’s. There are three distinct instruments that they use the symbols, harps and layers. Okay, so they were to do this for the service of the house of God. And they themselves were under the direction of the king. And their number, who were trained in singing to the Lord with their relatives and all who were Skillful was about 288in Chronicles 25:6. So you had a rather massive choir, a large choir, and you had instrument to instrument instrumentalists accompanying them on harps, Larry’s and symbols.

Now if you go through the Psalms, Psalms 33, Psalms 71, Psalms 92, Psalms 98, Psalms 147, 149, 150, you’re going to read all about harps as part of worship. And they indeed even show in the book of revelation, in chapter 14, verse 2, I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters, like the sound of loud thunder. And the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpist playing on their harps. Chapter 15, verse 2. I saw as it were A sea of glass mixed with fire. And those who would come off victorious from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name standing on the sea of glass holding harps of God.

And they sang the song of Moses. There you have harpists. They are believers. They are people who have been redeemed. And they are playing the harp and singing the song of deliverance. Now here then is an oratorio of escalating praise that that begins back in chapter four as we saw the praise starting verse number eight. And there were two movements appraised in the oratorio in chapter four. And we find three more in chapter five. It’s a crescendoing effect of this vision of the throne room of God. So but we see here, added to what has already been going on, the quartet of cherub in their praise, the 24 elders, making a total of 28 now.

And now we find added to the 28 instruments, harps. And this note needs to be made also follow very carefully, because I think this give will give us some insight into why they used and to what they mean. I think the symbolism here is very, very important in understanding what’s going on. Is what I’m trying to say that the 24 elders have hearts. What is the intent of that? The harp or a Larry, another kind of stringed instrument is regularly in scripture associated with prophesying. It is regularly associated with prophesying. Okay, so what do you think? What do you think’s happening is do we going from chapter five into chapter six for the future prophesying of events to come.

So they’re building this process in order for you to get the full effect of a transition from what is happening now to what will happen in the future. Using the scripture descriptions and instructions of how do you prophesy? Okay, so Jesus says, I’m the same yesterday, today and forever. That means going back what he, what they prophesied in the Old Testament using the tools. Jesus is going to use the same tools to prophesy to John chapter six to the end of the book. For example, if you go in to 1st Samuel 10, 5, the Prophet Samuel said to Saul, and it shall come to pass when thou art come thither to the city that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high places with sultry and a harp before them.

And they shall prophesy. And the spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. So the prophets will come they’ll come with harps. And harps are then associated with their prophecy. Again in Second Kings, chapter three, the spirit of prophecy was not upon Elijah. Okay, you go to the story of Elijah. This the the spirit of prophecy and wasn’t on Elijah as he stood before the two kings. But Elijah said this in second kings 3:15. But now bring me the minstrel, the orchestra, the instrumentation.

And it came to pass when the minstrel played upon his harp that the hand of the Lord came upon him. And he said this, thus saith the Lord. Now how’s that? Interesting enough for you? Okay, so you’re seeing here that what happened to Elijah did not have the spirit of prophecy until someone came and began to pluck the harp. And then the spirit of prophecy came upon him, the Spirit of the Lord. And he began to speak. Now, somehow God ordained that in the sounding of those notes and in the plucking of those strings and in making of melody.

In other words, God uses that instrumentation to move his spirit. In 1st Chronicles 25:1, Daniel separated into service Asaph and. And Hammond, as I noted in Judith, and who would prophesy with harps. The 49th Psalms, verse 4, adds to this. I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp. You got to see how interesting how the Scripture works here. What Jesus is doing is bringing the entire Bible, the entire history of. Of the saints into chapter five to start the future prophecy. Now, that ought to be interesting to you, because what.

What hap. What has to happen? All the saints have to be in heaven. All the. All the. The saints of the church have to be in heaven for this to take place. That supports the process of the rapture. So you might say, what is it? Therefore, not only to accompany the worship, but to symbolize all the prophecy. To symbolize all the prophecy, all the revelation that God had given, promising and describing the great events that are about to take place, all the scripture that had ever been given regarding the end, all of the prophecies that had ever been made regarding the end, the future, the final return of the Messiah, the building of the kingdom, the judgment of the ungodly, all of that scripture had ever had ever said about the end is symbolized with the harps.

For they become the symbols not only of praise, but a prophecy. Bet you didn’t know that. David playing the harp for Saul prophecy. David did it after he was anointed as king. He was prophesying to you from Scripture. And So there are 24 elders plucking their harps in a symbolic indication that all the. That the prophets had ever said was about to come to pass. Okay? The whole entire Bible came into being in that one moment. All of history was there. In addition to the harps, notice in verse 8 that the 24 elders were also holding golden bowls full of incense, which we’re told by scripture or the prayers of the saints.

Bowls don’t think like a bowl. Think of it like a saucer with a wide mouth. Okay? That was their bowl spectrum. Maybe more like what we would know as a. Maybe as a wide cereal bowl today. But it was made of gold. There were these kinds of utensils were found in the tabernacle, if you remember. Okay, if you go back into Exodus and look at the utensils of the tabernacle that God told Moses to put in the tabernacle. These were the things. These were the utensils that were put in the tabernacle. Think, guys, think. Think. Okay? The tabernacle is the house of God.

Where should these utensils be? In heaven, okay? Because the tabernacle, the. The true tabernacle is in heaven. And what God gave was specification to build a light tabernacle on earth. And he was putting everything in earth as it was in heaven. Where did you hear that from? Okay, so they were found in the temple. These kind of golden bowls, according to Zechariah 14:20, were used at the altar. And so we conclude by looking at total scripture that these golden bowls symbolize the priestly work of the intercession for the people. They were symbols of the priestly function.

Now notice they were full of incense. Incense was burned to send a fragrance upward. The Old Testament priests burned incense because it symbolized prayer rising to God fragrantly. Okay? As the incense went up and the smoke carried the fragrance up, it symbolized the offering of fragrant prayers to God. Normally, the priests would stand before the inner veil of the holy place, before the holy of holies, and they would offer incense before the presence of God and so that it would be rafted into the holy of holies, and there, as it were, to be swept into the very nostrils of God as a symbol of prayer rising for the people.

In Psalms 141:2, for example, the psalmist writes, may my prayer be counted as incense before you. Okay, so in Luke, we get another good indication of this in chapter one of verse eight. It came about while Zacharias, who was the husband of Elizabeth, the father of John the Baptist, was performing his priestly service before God in the Appointed order of his division. According to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by Lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. Now, that’s not Lot the man. He was chosen by the lot the people to enter into the temple on their behalf and burn incense.

And while the multitude of the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense offering, that was the pattern. Now think about Revelation, okay? That was the pattern. Whenever the priest went in to burn incense, the people prayed. And the incense symbolized the prayers of the people. Now, getting back to revelation with a little history. Now you see 24 elders holding golden bowls like the priest did, full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints, ties all the way back to the Old Testament and how they did things in the tabernacle. Okay, same process.

Just as the harps represented the prophecies of and the revelations and the scriptures that predicted the coming of the end follow this. The bowls and the incense represent the prayers of all of the saints. Throughout all of the ages fall all of the history that promise redemption might come. That’s got to bless your soul. It’s so rich and magnificent scene to put forth. You have the whole history at the throne room. Everything is there. Now here then we have anticipation on the part of the redeemed and the raptured elders as they pluck their harps. And they are saying all of that prophecy, as ever indicated would come to pass is about to happen.

As they, as it were, hold the bowls and the incent rise, which is the prayers of all of the saints throughout history, they are saying all of that that the saints had ever prayed for in terms of the ultimate and final redemption is about to come to pass. And so both the prophetic promise of God and the prayers of the saints are indicated in the harps and the bowls. Now there, there was a tremendous in this room, there was tremendous eagerness on the parts of the saints in the past that there is today and there will be in the future that the kingdom come come quickly.

In fact, Jesus said when he taught us to pray, pray like this. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And. And while there is a contemporary and immediate fulfillment to that kind of prayer in the spiritual sense, there is also an eschatological sense in which we are praying for the end and the final redemption and the glory of God. The prayers of the saints become a major theme throughout the book of Revelation. History is with Jesus Christ as he moves through prophecy. We run into the prayers of the saints in chapter 11, verse 18, chapter 13, verses 7, 9 and 10.

We read into the prayer of the saints in chapter 14, verse 12 in chapter 16, verse 6. 17, verse 6, 18, verses 20 and 24, verse 19, verse 8, 20, verse 9. So you’re going to see history moving through this prophecy at the same time. You’re there, you’re there. You’re already there, as John sees, and you hadn’t been born yet. Let that get some goosebumps going. Okay, you’re there. And so we’re going to see a lot about the prayers of the saints, but the saints have prayed for this moment their entire lives. Now if we go to chapter 6 in verse 10, just as an illustration, not going to break all of this down, but just as an illustration, here are some saints who have been slain.

Okay, They’ve been martyred on earth. And what are they doing? In verse 10 of chapter 6, it says they’re crying with a loud voice saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, will you refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on this earth? In other words, Lord, how long are the wicked going to prosper still and the saints be martyred? When are you going to come? When are you going to punish the wicked and exalt the righteous? Okay. And that it goes throughout all of history. Remember, the apostles wanted Christ to do that in his first coming.

He says, it’s not my time. So chapter eight, you’ll find another illustration in verse three. Here’s another angel that came and stood at the altar. He had a golden sensor that is the same kind of a golden bowl, another term for golden bowl and incense was given to him that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints went up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censor and he filled it with the fire of the altar and threw it to the earth.

And there followed peels of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake now. And now the prayers are really being answered. History is being used to do the judgment. He’s throwing the saints prayers to earth. Okay, getting this, this. You’re here, you’re there. The whole world is there in all of what God’s doing through His Son, from chapter six to the end of Revelation. And he takes the incense of prayer and turns it and throws it back into the holocaust of judgment on the earth. The symbolism and the imagery is magnificent. And very vivid when you understand the connections of the Old Testament in God, in Christ’s fulfillment to the New Testament, now to the judgment.

Okay, so here are the redeemed for sure, the 24 elders holding harps and golden bowls. And perhaps the angels do as well. We’re not told, but they tend to do everything together, as you’re going to say, although it’s best to see them with this, the 24 elders, because you then have to go explain other scripture if you want to throw the four living creatures into that bunch as well. But for that’s the reason why I separate them, because scripture pretty much deal tells us, tells us that is what happened, but doesn’t tell us we have to discern scripture in order to, to get that position.

So and the symbolism is simply this, that all the church has ever promised through the Scriptures and all that we have ever prayed for is now about to come to pass. All of the anticipation of the Holy Writ, all that believing, hoping, prayer, and all that believers have cried for to deliver them from sin and disease and Satan and flesh and demons and curse the universe and all of that mess, all of that prayer that has gone up for centuries. I’m getting goosebumps. All of this, it has gone up for centuries for God to now act, for Christ to come is now in the consummated effort that lay at our feet in this one final plea for the action to start.

And all of that all of the prophets have ever said about this moment is, is strummed in a final effort to play the tune that will lead to the final end. So the harps and the bowls fit the context because verse nine is the response to the promises and the prayers. And they sang a new song. In other words, they knew it was going to happen. They knew it like they’d never known it before. There was a brand new song, a brand new anticipation as the 24 elders bring before God what represents the desires of the saints, their hope based on the promises and their prayers that God gave them through the prophets of old.

Now you got to know this. They sang a new song. I don’t. I’m not going to belabor every word of what they did, but I can’t get past it without at least talking about could possibly include the four living creatures, but it also could restrict be just restricted to the 24 elders. But you might ask, aren’t the four living creatures involved in this oratorio? Yes, they are. And, and they can’t. And it can’t be said that they are Also singing the song of redemption because they’re not redeemed. Okay? They’re angels. But in a general sense, they can join in and praise.

Okay? So certainly the four living creatures we found in chapter four, verse eight, not ceasing to say holy, holy, holy is the Lord of God. All right, they were praising God, God the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. They started it off. And there in verse 10 again, the 24 elders, along with the 4 living creatures, cherubs say, worthy art thou, our Lord and our God to receive glory and honor and so forth in that verse. So they’re there. Okay, they’re there. And you might say, aren’t all of the angels included down in verse 11 of chapter 5? Well, yes, many angels and many angels joining the oratorial in verse 12, where these lamb that was slain.

And then in verse 14. And there you have the four living chairs bringing beings who keep saying amen. Okay, so it is. It’s just a worship fest going on. Okay, so you can imagine. So the angels are there, the cherubs are there. Orator is happening. There’s 24 elders, and they’re in the song of redemption. But interesting, this is only use of the word seeing. In chapter four or five, every time it talks about four living creatures or the rest of the angels, it uses the word say, speak, but not this word. This word is used as the word sing.

So some. But some commentators have suggested that only the 24 elders sing and the angels are in to rap. Okay, now rap music, okay, they’re in the talk to the song. It will be a whole lot different than what we hear today, I guarantee you. But it. This is the only use of the word seeing which fascinated me. Okay, Fascinating. I get fascinated a lot by words. Okay. Every time the angels are spoken of as encouraging in the your Torah appraise, it refers to him as saying. But here it uses the word dorsen means to sing or a doe, which we get antidote, which is a song, means a song.

And the others, they sang a song. So I say it’s fine to speak of all of the angels enjoying the song of redemption, but specifically to speak of angels singing would have to include them in. In the they in verse nine. And it’s best just to limit the 24, because when you bring in the angels, you. You got to really stretch the discernment of scripture to bring everybody in as singing. So angels sing, though. We know that because the Bible says so. Okay, what does it say? Hark to herald angel sing. Where’s. Where’s that verse? It’s in the Bible.

That’s not the verse of the Bible. That’s a song. That’s a hymn. Hark to herald angel sing. There’s nothing in the Bible that says the angels sing, okay? But we know they do. So in job 38. 7, it says that at creation, the morning stars sang together. That’s interesting. That could be a reference to angels because what. Angels are stars and so are we. And it’s very possible that they might have sung at creation, but never again does scripture say angels sing. Some have suggested, commentators that maybe they did sing before creation. And once the fall came, they didn’t sing anymore.

Their orchestra leader was gone, as some commentators put it. They had no other orchest leader. That was Lucifer before the fall. And maybe they should be included here in verse nine, because now that the fall is about to be reversed, they’re ready to sing again. Okay. I love how all this ties back to us everywhere in the Bible. So if you go back to Luke chapter two and remember the birth of Christ, you remember that the scripture says, and suddenly there appeared with an angel, a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, they’re not singing, saying, always the redeemed sing.

We can’t say for sure that at creation, when the morning stars sang together, that it did mean the angels were singing or that their song was a song like a. Like our songs. It may have been. We just. It’s just not laid out that way for us. And we can’t then say specifically here that this excludes the angels either. It’s possible now that they have gotten their song back because redemption is being. I mean, the fall is being overturned because they can see the reverse of the curse. But those would be the only two illusions in all of scripture about angels singing.

You’re not going to find them anywhere else in the scripture singing. They’re always said as being stated saying something. So if they sing, then it’s before the fall and anticipation of the reverse of the fall. Not in the middle. That’s what I’m trying to get to. All right. The redeemed sing. God’s washed children sing. But angels don’t sing in scripture. Now, I like to study Dr. Crystal, very, very. The theological individual. Dallas Baptist Church longest pastor, and he writes music is made up of major chords and minor chords. Okay, I want you put your thinking cap on the minor cards speak of the wretchedness, death and sorrow of the fallen creation.

Most of the. Most of nature moans and groans in a plentiful and minor key. The sound of the wind through the forest and the sound of the storm. And the sound of the wind around the house is always in a minor key. It wells the sound of the ocean, mourns in its relentlessness, in its speechless trouble. Even the nightingale song, the sweetest song of the birds, is the saddest. He goes on. Most of the sounds of nature are in a minor key. It reflects the wretchedness, the despair, the hurt, the agony, the travail of the fallen creation.

But an angel knows nothing about that. And angels know nothing of wretchedness, nothing of despair, nothing of the fall of the lost race. The major cube and the major cards are cards of trumpet triumph and victory. Surely God has taken us out of the miry clay, he has taken us out of the horrible pit, he has set our feet upon the rock and he’s put a new song in our souls and the new praises on our lips. But an angel knows nothing of this. An angel has never been redeemed. An angel has never been saved. An angel has never fallen and been brought back to God, reconciled to him.

And that’s the only reason that I find as to why angels never sing. It is God’s people who sing. That’s why the redeemed sing. Crystal writes. And the angels just speak about it. They see it, they watch it, they learn from us and they know nothing about it personally. It takes a lost and fallen man who has been brought back to God, who has been forgiven of his sin, who has been redeemed. It takes a saved soul to sin. End quote. Now, I see a lot of truth in that. Number one. Think about the keys of triumph and victory, major keys.

And think about sadness, wretchedness being minor keys. Oh, now think about this. Think about the slave scale in music. Those of you who play music, think about the slave scale. It’s all minor keys, okay? It is the elite that played major keys, okay? Think about the symbology of your life. Knowing that everything that God created is put together accurately. So as to the 24 elders most likely seeing this new song. It’s a new dead. It’s a. It’s a song of redemption. It’s a song that they know personally because they have been redeemed. They are joined by four living creatures for sure.

Scripture tells us that. And in whatever way the angels express themselves by saying, or if at this particular time learn how to sing again as they once did, in either case, they join them for this glorious final thrust of music that finds its Way, all the way down to the end of the chapter. It’s a new song. They sang a new song. I wish I could have time to go through the book of Psalms. I want to give you some more. Scripture. More than a new creation, new anything is a new song because redemption brings a song.

Psalms 33, Psalms 40, Psalms 96, Psalms 91, 144, 149, and all kinds of places elsewhere. When God saves somebody, it brings a new song. And here is even a new new song as they anticipate the final full glorious redemption. In chapter 14, verse 3, they sang a new song before the throne and before the living beings and the elders. And no one could learn this song except 144,000 who had been purchased from the earth. There’s your 144, 000 Jews. There’s another new song from another new redeemed group. There was a song for those redeemed in the Old Testament.

There’s a new song here for the redeemed in the church age. And there’s a new song for those redeemed out of the tribulation who are led by the 144,000. They just sing new songs of redemption popping up all the way through redemptive history. And I believe this is primarily the song of the redeemed represented by the elders, but is joined by the angels as well. Isaiah 42 seems to be talking about the same Psalm. Isaiah 42:9 through 13. I’m going to read it for you now. Behold, the former things have come to pass. Now I declare new things.

Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing his praise from the end of the earth. Who you who go down to the sea and all that is in it, you islands and those that dwell on them. Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices. The settlements or kedar inhabitants. Let the inhabitants of Selah sing about. Sing aloud. Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains. Let them give glory to the Lord and declare his praise. In in the coast lands the Lord will go forth like a warrior and he will arouse his zeal like a man of war.

He will utter a shout. Yes, he will raise a war cry. He will prevail against his enemies. And this seems to be the very time when Messiah comes in judgment. So that is maybe even a part of the song. The apocalyptic coming of the Lord to take over and to conquer, to redeem the universe and the final redemption of man for the kingdom becomes the theme of the new song. Now the song says this And I know you know these words. Okay? Worthy art thou to take the book or the scroll and to break its seals.

For thou west was slain and didn’t perch purchase for God with the blood men from every tribe and the tongue and people and nation. Where are the earth? Thou to take the scroll. Who’s worthy, the Lamb who is the lion, who is the root of David, who is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. You are worthy. You have the right. You have the inherent right because you are God. You have the earned right because you have overcome the enemy. You have the power. You are God’s heir. You are God’s right arm. And so you have the worthiness to take the scroll and breaks its seals.

That means to enact what is written in it by way of judgment, to take back the universe. It’s as if the world is captive to Satan. And Christ reveals, step by step, by breaking the seals, the battle plan by which he conquers the universe and banishes Satan forever. Why is he worthy? Well, because he’s the one that got slain and paid the price for God with thy blood. For men of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You see? Who’s ever going to be the king of this earth? Whoever is going to be the monarch of the universe.

Whoever was going to be the heir of God had to be slain. He had to die. The law required the slaying of a perfect, blameless, spotless lamb. And he was the only one that could fulfill it. Back in verse six, he was the lamb standing who had been slaughtered. It was the sacrificial, substitutionary death of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of on the cross of Calvary that made him worthy to take that scroll. Why? Because in that in his death he redeemed sinners. Look at it. And did purchase for God with thy blood, men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

You have a right to redeem your own. You bought them. You have a right to redeem the universe. Why? Because you made it. You purchased for God with your own blood to buy out the marketplace. You paid the full price. The background of this rich imagery is the buying of slaves from the marketplace and setting them free. Someone who is philanthropic would go into the marketplace and spend a fortune buying slaves that were there and then just turn them free. But see, at the cross, Jesus paid that price to buy all slaves of sin with his own blood from every tribe, tongue, people and nation and set them free.

At that time, he bought them from the slavery of sin and redeemed them to become saints to God for his service and for his worship. He redeemed them from sin and death and from hell and Satan and the demons to make them saints to to God who shares God’s glory. And the price was his life. Now I gotta have another note here for you. Some translations include in verse nine the word us worthy art thou to take the book or the scroll and break it its seals. For thou was slain and did purchase us, redeemed us to God by your blood.

For example, the new King version, James Version says that that’s how it’s translated. But there is a strong manuscript evidence in the ancient manuscripts. If you study the Greek text for including the word us, the majority of manuscripts, both early manuscripts and late manuscripts, include us. And it makes sense in that context since back in verses five and six is the elders who are singing the song. I think it is their song. It is the song of the redeemed. And I said the angels may be in the background joining somehow, but the ones with the harps and the ones with the balls and the ones who sing the new song are the redemption of the redemption are the elders.

And it’s appropriate then to include from the context standpoint us. Why? Because all of history is there. Because they’re saying you purchased us, you redeemed us to God by your blood. Now if that indeed is the case, and if the majority of manuscripts are right, even though the new American standard doesn’t include it, if the rest are right, it strengthens the idea that the 24 elders indeed represent the Rapture Church. And of course that would strengthen the pre tribulation rapture. Angels have never experienced redemption. So the angels can’t sing and therefore you’ve redeemed us. So you might now switch gears a little bit and look at another nice word called redemption.

The extent of the redemption is given to us in verse nine from every tribe, every tongue and people or nation. Now I think all that’s trying to say is from everywhere, from everywhere, from everywhere. And the Greek is ek, which means out of you have redeemed us out of every tribe, out of every tongue, out of every people and every nation. Out from within all of these different groups through gain have come see Jesus Christ shed his blood for the whole world. For God’s only word gave his Son, only begotten Son. The assumption is if he loves the world and he gave his Son, he gave his Son for the world he loved.

Which means the sacrifice of Christ was sufficient for the whole world. That’s your assurance. He provided A universal redemption. But only some can enjoy its reality. Some out of every tribe, some out of every tongue, some out of every people, some out of every nation. This isn’t a universalist statement that he has redeemed every tribe, every tongue, every people and every nation. These four terms, every tribe, every tongue, every people and nation, occur five times in Revelation. And they always refer to all of humanity. Just a general sense of all of humanity. Though out of all of humanity, God through Christ has redeemed souls.

Tribe indicates the same descent, tongue indicates the same language, people indicates the same race and nation indicates the same culture. So people from every descent and every language and every race and every culture have been redeemed from out of every lineage and out of every language and out of every race and out of every culture. The Lord has redeemed us. Now, put yourself in John’s shoes. Now, after going through all this, can you imagine what this meant to John? Foreign, you understand that when John gets this revelation, he’s on the isle of Patmos. The church is a little over 50 years old.

The church has been battered and abused and slaughtered. His friends, the apostles have died as martyrs. He’s in exile. He might well conclude that things were disastrous. He just received seven letters, five of which indicated the churches that were primary churches in the development, expansion of Christianity had defected from the faith. And it might well have been in his mind a reality that this, the way this deal is going to work, by the time we get to the end, there won’t be any redeemed people. I mean, there were those euphoric days at Pentecost when 3,000 were saved, 5,000 were added, and the church exploded and filled Jerusalem, Jerusalem with its doctrine.

And there were those wonderful days of the apostle Paul planting churches. And then there was the end of the life of Paul. And near the end, he says, everyone in Asia has turned away from me. And churches had lost their first love and compromised with the world and, and tolerated sin and became dead and nauseating. So can you imagine the wonderful, thrilling exhilaration of John as He hears the 24 elders saying through this song, this new song melody the word, that there will be a gathering together redeemed people from every tribe, tongue, people and nation on the globe.

Can you imagine that? And at this time, Christianity is just a little place. What hope, what thrill, what joy must have entered into him. And then in verse 10 adds the results of such redemption. And thou has made them to be kingdom and priests to our God. And they will reign upon the earth. Now the Word them in this is interesting. Why not us? Well, I can’t really tell you that Thou made us. Maybe because there’s a little too narrow of a definition here. Now, you’ve got to include more than just the 24 elders who are the saints of the church, age, raptured and redeemed.

You’ve got to include all the Old Testament saints, all of the Tribulation saints. They will all be kings and priests to our God and reign upon the earth. And so I think John uses the third person here, them because of the vastness of the final comprehension of redemption. What is the goal and the outcome of this redemption? We have made a kingdom and priests to our God. A kingdom and priest are God. Something noted, by the way, in chapter one, verse six, and also in chapter 20, verse six. We are a kingdom and a priest. What is a kingdom? A community of saints under a sovereign rule.

He’s our king. We’re not part of a kingdom. We are a kingdom. We are royalty under the great king. We share his blood, as it were. We share his royalty. We’re joint heirs. We’re not part of a kingdom. We are the kingdom. In fact, he is a king and we’re all kings and will reign with him forever. Maybe the Corinthians got the message messed up a bit, but they at least had it in a small capsule, I think. First Corinthians 4, 8 says, Paul sarcastically says, you’re already filled. You’re already become rich. You have become kings.

Without us I would indeed you had become kings. See, he probably had already told them, the day’s coming when you’re going to be king. We’re going to be a kingdom of kings. And they thought they had already arrived. And he was sarcastically reminding them that they hadn’t yet. And at the end of chapter three, chapter three, verse 21, in Revelation, all believers are granted to sit down with me on my throne. Well, that would be a kingdom of kings and will reign over the earth. We will be royalty forever, reigning with our ruling Christ on earth and reigning throughout eternity in a new heaven and new earth.

And it goes on to add, and we’re priests to our God. Were priests. That signifies complete access to God’s presence. The priests had completely complete access to God’s presence for worship, for praise, for service. We will be royalty and we will be priesthood, Or even now, or priests. First. Peter 2, 5 and 9 tells us we are priests unto God. That’s anticipatory of our future priesthood when we have total access, perfect communion with God. So we are the redeemed. The 24 elders are singing a new song. And they’re singing, you are now worthy to take the book and to break its seals.

You died, you were slaughtered, and you paid the price. And you purchased us with your blood out of every tribe, tongue, people and nation. And you’ve gathered all of the redeemed, and you’ve made them to be a kingdom of kings and priests with eternal access and communion to God who reign on this earth. That’s the song of the 24 elders. And for the fourth time in this chapter, Jaws, John says he saw something. Again, verse 11, it says, and I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living beings and the elders, and the number of them was myriads of myriads.

That’s a little hard to add. Thousands of thousands of thousands. He says, I looked and I heard. I heard the voice of many angels around the throne. And now the thing is beginning to crescendo to the voices of the four living creatures saying what they were saying. Or added to the to the 24 elders are added the harps. Now with innumerable number of angels surround the throne where God and the Lamb are present. The number is beyond calculation. It says myriads of myriads. That’s mirion in Greek, and Mirion times Marion is basically means 10,000 times 10 thousands times 10 thousands.

See, 10,000 was the largest Greek number that had a word for it. They didn’t have words for millions and so forth because they didn’t count anything that went that high. And all they had was 10,000 as the word in their vocabulary. So when they wanted to talk about innumerable number, they said 10,000 times 10,000, which I think makes a hundred million and thousands and thousands plus however many. Miriam, in Luke 12:1 and in Hebrews 12:22 is translated innumerable. It’s uncountable, millions of them. But they join in Praise in verse 12. Now, notice this. When the angels come in, does it say? They say.

What does it say? They say with a loud voice. And this again leads me to assume that they were still not singing. And maybe they never do so saying with a loud voice. God likes everything loud. By the way, he says, come boldly through the throne and make your. Make your petitions known loudly. He likes everything loud. I hear people say, oh, I don’t like music. It’s too loud. Well, wait till you get to heaven. You ain’t heard anything yet until you heard millions of voices singing loud. Okay, so verse 12 saying with a loud voice, and.

And this is. Now, this is again an interesting thought. They can only echo the song of redemption. They can’t initiate it. It’s not their song. Back in chapter four, they can say, holy, holy, holy. And they can say, worthy are you our Lord, to receive the glory and honor. They can glorify him. But they can’t sing the song of redemption. They can’t invent it. They can only echo it. Worthy is a lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. In Psalms 33, 3, they sang loud.

In Psalms 98, 4, they were supposed to sing loud. And here they are loud. This time they’re saying loudly in an angelic Doxology, worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Coming to the end. You need to remind yourself again that the emphasis is on his death as a perfect redemption. And so he must be given worship, praise and adoration. He is worthy because he was slain to be given power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. And I read that and I say, you know something? This is the one of those that.

Such an unbelievable doxology, it’s almost defies exposition. You almost don’t want to even touch it. But for men and angels, he is worthy to receive all of this praise. He’s worthy to receive recognition because of his power, his omnipotence. He is worthy to receive recognition because of his riches, his spiritual wealth, his material wealth. He owns everything. He’s worthy to receive praise because of his wisdom, his omniscience. He made wisdom, wisdom. He is worthy to receive recognition and praise because of his might or his strength, his reserve of power. In the Greek, it’s Ishkun. He is worthy to receive honor because his holy character.

He is worthy to receive glory or a recognition of his divine majesty and heavenly radiance. And he is worthy to receive blessing because of his absolute perfection. You’re to receive an accolade for your power, an accolade for your riches, your wisdom and your might and your honor and your glory and the tremendous blessing that flows from you. Those are seven qualities true of the Lamb and true of God. They are intrinsic to the person of God and the Person of the lamp. He doesn’t have to receive them. Why? He is them. They aren’t given to Him.

They are Him. And all we can do is praise him for what he is. Remember, you’re not going to know who you are unless you know who he is. All this greatness, the Lamb possesses and he is worthy of it. And so you have an innumerable number of angels plus the living ones, plus 24 elders. And then in verse 13, the whole creation joins and every created thing which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea and all things in them. You read that somebody will inevitably say, what does that include? Well, I just thought we just gave it.

What does it not include? It includes every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s a. It is an absolutely all encompassing statement. There is nothing left out. But some of some. I’ve had something. What does that include? And the answer is nothing. I mean, I’m sure it’s everything from angels and men to frogs and grofers and all kinds of stuff. And. And I try to include something that’s in the water and something it’s on land, you know, something that might be on the sea, a turtle, you know, something like that.

Because they’re everywhere. This is all inclusive. Can you imagine every creature, a cow, a dog, a monkey, an ant, a roach, are singing praises to God. It didn’t say humans. It said every creature, everything ever created is singing praises to God. Think about that. Every being, the whole creation has been growing, Romans 8 says, and now it explodes and prays. The whole created universe is now on the brink of its anticipated glory. And so the final fifth piece of this praise him to God and the Lamb is going to be brief. And there aren’t singing. All these other beings say, because singing, as I said, belongs to the redeemed, to him that sits on the throne, which is God.

Into the lamp be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever. Endless blessing, endless honor, endless praise, endless glory, endless worship to God into Christ. The whole universe chimes in. Amazing. They’re also ecstatic because now it’s going to happen. The curse is being reversed and the kingdom comes and God will reign. And those four cherubim constitute the amen corner in verse 14. And all the foreign, all living creatures kept saying amen, Amen, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshiped. A solemn confirmation. In other words, let it be, make it happen. And they say it over and over and over.

And the 24 elders make a fresh prostration in worship of God in the Lamb. And soon very fact, and soon this great assembly will march out of heaven to execute judgment together. The elect is what Ephesians predestinated elect. Okay. You’re chosen before the foundation of the world, so forth. Remember that to return to the Christ and set up his kingdom. John has just completed setting the stage forward is to cap. Come. That’s the end of chapter five. Comments. Can you hear me okay, Jim? Yeah. In verse 13, it says every created thing. And when you look at that word created, that’s past tense.

So that means every single aspect of all creation that’s ever been created is universally worshiping him. Yeah. I want to see my dinosaur. Okay, that’s a good one. All right. Yeah, seriously, you know, I want to. It’s. That’s what it means, you know, that’s what it means every well you created. You touch on something there with dinosaurs, because there’s some trains of thought with our years of. Of man being physically on the face of the earth. Some people believe in an old earth creation and a young earth creation. But you know, that’s. That’s neither here nor there, but about dinosaurs.

And there’s a couple of examples of large beasts that are around people near people that they’ve seen them, so we don’t really exactly know what they are. Is that correct? Right. Talks like about a behemoth and the leviathan. Yeah, yeah. And, and, and oh, by the way, what. What’s being discovered in the ocean? Okay. What. What is now coming out from the depths of the sea? A big monster. Wow, I haven’t heard that one yet. Yeah, yeah. Oh, and also the cities under cities. It’s. Guys, you’re gonna love this. You’re gonna love disclosure. Isn’t that the.

The valley of Megiddo where Armageddon is going to take place? Because hasn’t there been, I think I’m going to say a well number here, thousands of civilizations on that territory that have been built upon it in that area? Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know about the number of civilizations, but it’s a city on top of city on top of city. Yeah. In essence, that’s what I mean. Yeah, same thing. Yeah. Because that’s a strategic land bridge also, isn’t it, between Asia, Africa and Europe? Yeah, I could go off on a tangent. I’ll stay with it.

Stay with this. Go ahead. No, no, no. Okay. Stay with the steady. Yeah. Don. Sorry. Okay, so I was thinking about how to train your dragon, Jim, when you said that. And there’s a reason these movies are so popular because they kind of capture the truth. And I think they’re beckoning us past what we know. And this might Be the first time. Well, not first time. It’s a little dramatic, but we all know I’m dramatic. But I’m starting to want to be in heaven way more than I’ve ever wanted to be. Like listening to this lesson tonight pretty much bawl my eyes out.

And I was so touched by John weeping because I feel like I’ve normalized this satanic, luciferic world. I’ve normalized it. Like I listen to Satan so often and I kind of just go off that little road and, and for John to be so clear that oh my goodness, there’s no one worthy. I just wanted to weep and weep and weep with him. Because this world without Christ, Christ and without Holy Spirit, it’s. I. Yeah. So that, that, that. Was there anything else? So how TR. Dragon. Oh my goodness. John. Oh, and then the harp and music.

I just kept thinking, did all the angels just say, that’s it, we’ve had it, we’re not going to sing anymore without. With Lucifer taking music and you know, I don’t know, just, it’s so, it’s so beautiful. And then I kind of did say, is there any way we could start singing as a group? Because I miss that. That’s one of the things I really miss about my brick and mortar church. There was so much wrong with it. But there was something when we all sang that just was profound to me. And honestly, I don’t really sing anymore.

And ask my husband, he loves it when I sing and I’m kind of like, no, I don’t want to sing. There’s something very powerful. I think about getting on that frequency. Yeah, that’s it. Okay, I’m done. Oh, I just want to say the power of prayer. You guys have no idea how much you all mean to me. You have no idea. Because I was in a self created hell for at least three days. Three days. And what did I do about it? I just sat myself created hell and felt bad and felt awful. And then I finally reached out to someone and she was so amazing.

She’s like, oh yeah. You are in a self create created hell. Run for the cross. Run for Jesus. You’re letting Satan shame you. Don’t let him do that. You’re gonna fall. You’re gonna fall a lot. And if every time you fall you feel like a piece of crap, don’t you think that’s there’s something a little bit suspicious about that? Don’t you think so? I am just so grateful for this body. I’m so grateful. I will. I could not Be where I am. And, John, I am that little baby that you talked about the other day. That is me.

I kind of. I’m. Yeah, that is me. But there’s always a new day. And I believe in God, and I’m a work in progress, and he’s gonna keep working on me. Thank you. Okay. Can you got get off meter? I guess so. Okay, I’m back. Okay. Sorry about that. Basically, what we’re talking about when dawn was talking about, I think when we go through the hardships, a lot of times we want to digress and basically feel guilty or feel bad, whatever. But in essence, I think scripture is teaching us to be thankful for all the things that we go through, all the trials and tribulations, to give him thanks and praise because.

Because it builds our character and draws us closer to Him. You know, the most difficult part of your life is to give thanks when you’re down. Yeah. Especially like the death of a loved one and. And stuff like that. You know, it’s very hard to console people during those times especially, too. Yep. Have another question real quick about the music we’re talking about here. Earlier bass music, heavy bass music, like what the kids play in their cars today. The thumping and booming. Is that evil or satanic to a degree or what? Or. No, I. Number one, I can’t opine on that because they had symbols back then.

In the old days, there were loud banging things. Okay. So I don’t know if. If the music itself is evil. I wouldn’t think that an instrument that gives out sound would be evil. I think its use would be evil, could be evil, but not the instrument itself. So the. The music that they play typically are. Is. Is demonic influenced because the rap is not at the hermetic level of a frequency of music. Okay. So when you look at it in the context of what are they singing or what are they. Or what are they performing, and you begin to dice it down to its elements.

The majority of what you hear on radio today is demonic. Okay, thank you. The question is, who is getting glory? Is God getting the glory from that, or is the enemy? You know, because Satan loves music too. He was the choir director. And. And. And they know. They know more about how this universe works, and they change your DNA by demonic frequencies. So. And you. You can have your DNA changed. There’s. There’s patents on that and showing you how they do it. Okay. But the. You can change your d. Your DNA frequency, frequency in becoming sick or depressed or, you know, whatever, suicidal through just the avenues you choose to entertain you.

Anything else, guys? Sure. All right, let’s pray. Father, thank you again for a lovely evening in your word. I just love teaching this God, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be used by you to do this. It’s such a. Such a blessing and so much fun getting prepared for it and getting all the aha’s before they do. So. Thank you. But anyway, Father, just continue to bless this family. Bless us in all the ways that. That you provide for us. You love us. Father, just continue to give us open minds and open hearts, understanding, wisdom, courage to learn, courage to be bold and in your sight.

Give us the opportunity to. To be with each other in spirit form and understand that we’re all connected and support each other every minute of every day. Father, thank you again for your son and the precious blood he paid to give us our ability to have victory over all of the evilness of this world and to have our way to go home. Father, again, be with the world leaders as they are now in a frenzy of making all kinds of decisions and changes and. And things that are going to pressure. Pressure the citizens of the world a little bit and not quite understanding and getting frustrated about things of change and.

And not willing to take the time to research and gain an understanding. May they come to you and ask for revelation and you tell them what your plan is doing. And Father, we were those that are servicemen. We’re sending people all over this world right now in areas that they’ve never fought in before. They’re going to train and because of the continuation of the fight that you have set forth for your people to overcome. And Father, we just pray for the families, give them peace, give them a sense of encouragement to know that basically you got the back.

And we just want to continue to offer up prayers for those that are going through times of difficulty right now, losing of loved ones, difficulty dealing with. With parents and kids and friends and all kinds of stuff that’s going on right now. We just ask that you just, you know, connect to our hearts and give us the peace and understanding in the sense that you’re in control. And Father, we just pray all these things in your son’s name.
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