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.

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.

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