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I'm Patrick Miller.

Let's play a little game. I'm going to play an audio clip and I want you to guess what kind of animal you're hearing. Are you ready? Here we go. Okay, what do you think it is? A bird probably, but you'd be wrong. That is, believe it or not, a cheetah, and that's the normal sound a cheetah makes.

Can you imagine walking through a Sahara grassland and hearing that, a bird chirping just behind you?

And so you turn around to see the bird and you discover to your

whore that it's not a bird it's not unthreatening it's not a befeathered creature

instead it's a wild cat made almost entirely out of bone and muscle and it could shred you to pieces with its claws and teeth in the snap of a finger.

The Book of Revelation plays on a similar theme.

John hears one thing only to see something he didn't expect.

Perhaps the most important example of this comes from Revelation 5.

John has entered into the throne room of heaven and he

seized the whole of creation bowing down to the Creator God and now in Revelation

5 we finally encounter the one who is seated on the throne.

But before John can fully see him, he hears about who he is.

Revelation 5.

Then one of the elders said to me,

Don't weep. See the lion of the elders said to me, don't weep.

See, the lion of the tribe of Judah.

The root of King David has triumphed.

He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. And so John hears this elder standing before

the throne of God announcing a lion, a king, a triumphant conqueror. But then he looks to see that king, victor that lion the one that he's heard about and this is what he sees verse six

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