It is hard not to think about the End Times with all that is going on in the world. Today I headed to Revelation Chapter 5. It’s only 14 verses and takes about two minutes to read. It is full of music and worship. First the 4 creatures and 24 elders play their harps and sing. Then the thousands upon thousands and ten thousand upon ten thousand join in. Finally, the “Cosmos Choir” made up of every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth and in the sea begin to sing.
While I can only imagine what that will be like, there is a verse in that wonderful chapter that reaches deeper in me than I can even express. The NKJV renders the wording beginning verse 6, “And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain ….”
But it is the way the NLT renders it that grabs my soul, “Then I saw a Lamb ….”
I saw a Lamb … I saw THE Lamb. As John stood before the Throne in the heavenlies, John saw the Lamb, the One slain from the foundation of the world. He saw the one upon whom he had rested his head at the Last Supper. He saw the One who loved him so. He saw the One who died for him, stripped naked upon a Roman cross. He saw the One placed in the tomb and he saw the One risen from the grave. He saw the One who ascended before his very eyes into the clouds. He saw the One who took away his sin and his guilt. He saw the One who alone now has the authority to open the scroll that signals the beginning of the New Heaven and New Earth.
I want to see what John saw! I want to see THE Lamb. I want to hear the heavenly choir. I want to stand shoulder to shoulder with the saints of all the ages and worship the One who sits on the throne and the Lamb forever and ever. I want to see what John saw! Amen&Amen