Reflections on Revelation #110

Day 110

“Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come!” Rev 6:1 NASB.

Revelation 6 continues the scene of chapters 4 & 5, which describes Christ as worthy to open the sealed scroll because through His victorious life and death, He gained what was lost through Adam. He is now ready, by opening the seals on the scroll, to carry forward the plan of salvation to its ultimate realization. 

Because of the cross, the Lamb can open the scroll and provide everything necessary to redeem the universe. Salvation costs me nothing, but it cost Him everything.  

Pentecost marked the beginning of the spread of the gospel, by which Christ expands His kingdom. Thus, the breaking of the seals refers to the open preaching of the gospel and the consequences of rejecting it. The opening of the seventh and last seal brings us to the conclusion of this world’s history. 

Revelation 3:21 gives us the key to the meaning of the seven seals: “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne” NKJV. Chapters 4 & 5 tell us of Christ’s overcoming and His worthiness, as a result of His sacrifice at Calvary, to be our heavenly High Priest and to open the scroll. The last verse of chapter 7 describes the overcomers before Christ’s throne. Thus, chapter 6 is about God’s people in the process of overcoming so that they might share Jesus’ throne. 

Please remember the symbolic nature of the language being used here. Firstly, you can’t limit omnipresence to a “chair,” and secondly if we were to take this literally, we would end up with millions of the redeemed crowding onto the same “chair” with Jesus! Always remember the Bible & Revelation often speaks in symbolic, conceptual language to convey an important message in a way that our limited minds can grasp.  

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