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I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to Revelation chapter 5.

Revelation 5, and we're going to read verses 1 through 10 and focus on verses 9 and

10. Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back

Sealed with seven seals

And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice,

Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.

Now I take this scroll to be the secret decrees and councils of God concerning how it will

fair with his people as history comes to a climax.

Verse 4.

And I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

And one of the elders said to me,

weep no more. Behold, the lion of the elders said to me, Weep no more.

Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah,

the root of David, has conquered,

so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.

And between the throne and the four living creatures

and among the elders I saw, a lamb,

standing as though it had been slain with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven

spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

So the conquering that makes the lion of Judah worthy to reveal the decrees of God is a conquering that was achieved as a slain lamb, which is exactly what

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