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Monday, March 17, 2014

Monday, March 17, 2014 - Worthy Is The Lamb

AM Devotion

Prayer

Lesson:  Revelation  5:6-13;
Revelation 3:7; 5:5-13; 6:12-7:17; 22:16

Worthy is the Lamb

Review for Class #1
1. In this text, John was sad because there was a scroll to be opened and no one was [worthy].

Worthy - : good and deserving respect, praise, or attention

: having enough good qualities to be considered important, useful, etc.

kids - worthy means (good enough)

2.  As John gazed upon the scene of the throne room, he saw a Lamb that appeared to be [slain].

What color is a lamb?  if a Lamb was beat up, what could the Lamb look like.. ans. scars, blood, marks

3. Who does the Lamb represent? Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ before he was crucified, appeared to be normal, but after he was beaten, spit on, crucified, after he was resurrected, now you can see bruises where he was nailed (in his hands, pierced in his side)

4.  So now, we see the Lamb is the only one worthy of opening the scroll.
The creatures and the elders now worshiped the [LAMB]

5.  John then heard the worship from all creation.
Everything and Everybody (creatures of heaven, the earth, under the earth, in the sea)

app:  After the Lamb was worshiped, then came judgement (punishment) for all those who reject, [Jesus Christ]

Revelation 3:7

New International Version (NIV)

To the Church in Philadelphia

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true,who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
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Revelation 5:5-13

New International Version (NIV)
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits[a] of God sent out into all the earth.He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.And they sang a new song, saying:
“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.
10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
    and they will reign[b] on the earth.”
11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12 In a loud voice they were saying:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
    and honor and glory and praise!”
13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
    be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 5:6 That is, the sevenfold Spirit
  2. Revelation 5:10 Some manuscripts they reign
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Revelation 6:12-7:17

New International Version (NIV)
12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth,as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us[a]from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

144,000 Sealed

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

The Great Multitude in White Robes

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures.They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:
“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robesand made them white in the blood of the Lamb.15 Therefore,
“they are before the throne of God
    and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne
    will shelter them with his presence.
16 ‘Never again will they hunger;
    never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’[c]
    nor any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
    will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’[d]
    ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’[e]

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 6:16 See Hosea 10:8.
  2. Revelation 6:17 Some manuscripts his
  3. Revelation 7:16 Isaiah 49:10
  4. Revelation 7:17 Isaiah 49:10
  5. Revelation 7:17 Isaiah 25:8
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Revelation 22:16

New International Version (NIV)
16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 22:16 The Greek is plural.

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