Revelation 5:9-10 They sing a new song:
‘You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God
saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;
you have made them to be a kingdom and priests serving our God,
and they will reign on earth.’
In the strange world of the book of Revelation - of John of Patmos' vision of heaven - this is a song sung to honor the Lamb who has been slaughtered and who has freed the world from the power of sin and death. The song is sung by four living creatures, mythological in nature and twenty-four elders. They represent the whole of creation. All of creation sings to honor Christ who conquered sin, death, and the power of the devil.
The song is about how Christ ransomed saints for God out of every tribe and nation, about how He made those saints into a kingdom and priests serving God on earth.
In the strange world of the book of Revelation - do you know who those saints are? They're you. YOU are the saints ransomed from the power of evil for God's purposes by the Lamb. YOU are the saints who have been made into a kingdom for God, into priests for God. YOU.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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