I want to go back to Revelation Chapter 5, where we were in yesterday’s devotion. I want to go back to look once more at a group of people described simply as the “24-elders.” Many scholars believe these 24 represent the 12 tribes of Israel (the OT saints of God) and the 12 Apostles of Christ (the NT saints of God.) If that is true, then that is us!
If that is us then we are doing three things!.
We are all there together. All the people of God from all the ages, all the nations, Jew and Gentile, male and female, slave and free. We are together with Him before the throne.
We are rejoicing, singing of His glory. I think there might even be some dancing going on. I can picture David whirling and twirling in his praise with a bus driver from Queens. There’s Paul singing loudly arm and arm with a martyr from Nigeria. Billy Graham and Martin Luther are side-by-side and Mother Teresa is hugging a Chinese believer. Maybe Peter and the Centurion are back together. And in the middle of them there’s you and me.
Then all of us are overcome with the desire to fall together and worship the Great I Am and the Lamb. Suddenly we sing, “Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.” [verse 13]
We are together. We sing His praises. We bow before Him in worship. We probably should start practicing that now. Amen&Amen