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Jesus in the Throne Room
- Passage
- Revelation 5
- Taught
- March 30, 2025
Summary
John weeps because no one in heaven or on earth is worthy to open the scroll sealed with seven seals. An elder tells him to weep no more: the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. The slides tie the scroll to Ezekiel’s vision of a scroll written on front and back, the lion to Jacob’s blessing of Judah in Genesis 49, and the Root of David to Isaiah 11 and Jeremiah 23.
What John sees next is a Lamb standing, as though slain. The slides look at the Greek word for lamb and at the ransom language of the new song, explaining the kinsman-redeemer of the Old Testament, who redeemed land, freed relatives from slavery and preserved a family line. The Lamb’s blood ransoms people for God from every tribe, language, people and nation.
The chapter ends in worship. Myriads of angels, every creature in heaven, on earth and in the sea, join the four living creatures and the elders, and the slides close with the Doxology.
The chapter in three scenes
The slides follow the chapter this way:
- 5:1–5. The sealed scroll, the Lion of Judah and the Root of David.
- 5:6–10. The Lamb who was slain takes the scroll, and the new song.
- 5:11–14. Worship in the throne room.
Key takeaways
The slides give these takeaways for the first two sections:
- The scroll and its significance, the Lion of Judah, the Root of David, and the triumph of hope (5:1–5).
- The Lamb and its attributes, the Lamb’s worthiness, the universal availability of redemption, and worship and praise (5:6–10).
Questions to talk about
- Jesus is both Lion and Lamb. Which side of him do I tend to forget?Revelation 5:5–6.
- What does it mean to me that the Lamb’s blood ransomed people from every tribe, language and nation?Revelation 5:9.
- Do my prayers feel like the “golden bowls of incense” that heaven keeps?Revelation 5:8.