The Horseshoe

Revelation 5:1-14

　
　
Have you ever had an experience that physically and emotionally is so overwhelming that it fills you completely?

Several years ago I went to an Ohio State football game at the Shoe. I was rooting for Michigan State since I’m an alumnus. The Spartans drove the ball the length of the field to the closed end of the stadium. We were about to score when the roar of the crowd became deafening. I’d never been to a game before where the crowd was so loud that you felt like it was inside of you.

Revelation 5 is a very dramatic, emotional scene. John is crying because nobody can open the scroll. But then Jesus appears as the "Lion of the tribe of Judah". He has triumphed, and is able to open the scroll. Jesus is also portrayed as a Lamb who has been slain. He takes the scroll from him who is on the throne and this song is sung in worship of Jesus:

"You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation".

"You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth".

Then the passage says that, "thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand" angels circle the throne and in a loud voice worshiped:

"Worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive honor and glory and praise".

Then every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them continued worshipping:

"To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever. Amen."

I don’t care how many Buckeye games you’ve been to or who they beat. It doesn’t matter if it was Michigan or the 2002 National Championship game. When we reach that time where we are worshiping the Lamb with "thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand" angels, there will be nothing else like it on earth or in heaven. We will be filled completely.

Amen.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%205&version=NIV;MSG
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Rev.5