March 10. Let us adore the Lamb.

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

Revelation 5-4. Have you ever thought of your prayers as the aroma of heaven?

This is the picture we get when we read Revelation 5.

5. Here's a glimpse of life in heaven. In Revelation 5 we see God Almighty on the throne with a

scroll in His hand. The scroll had seven seals. They all had to be pulled off before the scroll

could be opened. I think the opening of the scroll represents the final days of history and the

pulling off of the seven seals represents the kind of history we will pass through as we move

toward those last days. At first John wept that there was no one worthy to open the scroll and look

into it. Revelation 5-4. But then one of the elders in heaven says weep no more because the lion

of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered so that he can open the seal and its seven

seals. Revelation 5-5. By dying on the cross Jesus had earned the right to open the remainder

of redemptive history and lead his people victoriously through it. In the next verse the lion is

pictured as the lamb standing as though it had been slain. Revelation 5-6. Isn't this a beautiful

image of Jesus' victory on the cross? Standing, not lying though it had been slain.

It is as sure as though a lion had devoured the foe but the way he achieved the victory was by

letting the foe slay him like a lamb. So now the lamb is worthy to take the scroll of redemptive

history from God's hand and open it. This is such a kingly act that the 24 elders of heaven,

God's worship counsel as it were, fall down before the lamb in adoration.

And you know what the golden bulls of incense are? Verse 8 says, they are the prayers of the saints.

Does not this mean that our prayers are the aroma of heaven, sweet smelling before the throne of

God and before the lamb? I am strengthened and encouraged to pray all the more often and all the

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