Heralds Digest

  “ But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.” 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, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ” Revelation 5 : 5 - 6 NKJV The revelation of Jesus Christ as both the Lion and the Lamb presents the fundamental principle of peacemaking to believers. As rightly submitted in Nicky Gumbel’s devotional on Revelation 5, “ doing hard things requires us to be lion-like - i.e., bold, steely and courageous. Doing things the right way means being like a lamb - i.e., gentle, meek and submissive ”. Christ was bold, steely and courageous by His confrontations with sin and sinners; and He was gentle, meek and submissive to the consequences of these confrontatio...

"And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!”" (Revelation 5:13 NKJV) Once upon a time, the sacred Lamb came unto His own people; but He was rejected. Therefore, the scripture says that power was given to only those who received Him to become children of God. But all creature, which is in heaven and on the earth (that is, regenerated and unregenerated), shall soon declare the worthiness of the Lamb to receive blessing and honour and glory and power forever and ever. Unfortunately, this declaration will be too late to deliver every unregenerated soul from the judgment of God and the eternal doom of the ungodly. Wisdom demands the declaration of the worthiness of the Lamb while grace is available to save the soul from sin.