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John was pained to find someone to open the scroll!
“Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” And no one in heaven (angels) or on earth (living mortal) or under the earth (dead) was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it." Rev 5:2-4
No one living, dead nor angelic, could unloose the seals. Of course this knowledge was God's alone, not His Son's, for even he was not privy to it's content during his life of probation. The unfolding of the divine purpose, and its glorious consummation, required the sacrifice, and resurrection to glory, of one coming in sin prone flesh and yet rendering perfect obedience in order to accomplish this. Jesus the firstborn of many sons!
The future was all dependent upon the victory of Calvary.
This must be seen as a direct reward beyond Jesus's name, inheritance, throne and glory which of course he could not have had prior to his birth, otherwise in no way can it be such.
This breaking the seal, opening the scroll (metaphor) for being able to receive of Yahweh his God the divine plan for things which must soon come to pass, a reward indeed! Since AD 96 (or thereabouts) when John received the Revelation, the Father and Son have laboured to bring about those events written within. Even so come Lord Jesus.
Questions to consider:
Do we have an anxious desire for a full understanding of the Divine purpose like John and those characterised by the faithful in (Hebrews 11:1), as it does also those who "hunger and thirst" for knowledge today" (Habakkuk 1:2; Daniel 12:10; 1 Peter 1:10 Revelation 6:10).
Have we received the blessing pronounced upon those who search for it? (Matthew 7:7: James 1:5; Revelation 1:3).
“Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” And no one in heaven (angels) or on earth (living mortal) or under the earth (dead) was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it." Rev 5:2-4
No one living, dead nor angelic, could unloose the seals. Of course this knowledge was God's alone, not His Son's, for even he was not privy to it's content during his life of probation. The unfolding of the divine purpose, and its glorious consummation, required the sacrifice, and resurrection to glory, of one coming in sin prone flesh and yet rendering perfect obedience in order to accomplish this. Jesus the firstborn of many sons!
The future was all dependent upon the victory of Calvary.
This must be seen as a direct reward beyond Jesus's name, inheritance, throne and glory which of course he could not have had prior to his birth, otherwise in no way can it be such.
This breaking the seal, opening the scroll (metaphor) for being able to receive of Yahweh his God the divine plan for things which must soon come to pass, a reward indeed! Since AD 96 (or thereabouts) when John received the Revelation, the Father and Son have laboured to bring about those events written within. Even so come Lord Jesus.
Questions to consider:
Do we have an anxious desire for a full understanding of the Divine purpose like John and those characterised by the faithful in (Hebrews 11:1), as it does also those who "hunger and thirst" for knowledge today" (Habakkuk 1:2; Daniel 12:10; 1 Peter 1:10 Revelation 6:10).
Have we received the blessing pronounced upon those who search for it? (Matthew 7:7: James 1:5; Revelation 1:3).
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