Revelation 5
Revelation 5:1
I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
Revelation 5:2
I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?
Revelation 5:3
No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.
Revelation 5:4
And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it.
Revelation 5:5
One of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.
“Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?”
Genesis 49:9
“And I looked, and behold, a creature like a lion was aroused out of the forest, roaring; and I heard how he uttered a man’s voice . . . the lion whom you saw rousing up out of the forest and roaring and speaking to the eagle and reproving him for his unrighteousness, and as for all his words that you have heard, this is the Messiah whom the Most High has kept until the end of days, who will arise from the posterity of David, and will come and speak to them; he will denounce them for their ungodliness and for their wickedness, and will cast up before them their contemptuous dealings. For first he will set them living before his judgment seat, and when he has reproved them, then he will destroy them. But he will deliver in mercy the remnant of my people, those who have been saved throughout my borders, and he will make them joyful until the end comes, the day of judgment, of which I spoke to you at the beginning. This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.”
4 Ezra/2 Esdras 11:37, 12:31-35
Revelation 5:6
I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, 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.
“For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes, behold, I will engrave its engraving, says HaShem of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.”
Zechariah 3:9
Revelation 5:7
Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
Revelation 5:8
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.
“Let my prayer be set before you like incense, the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.”
Psalms 141:2
Revelation 5:9
They sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
“Sing to HaShem a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.”
Isaiah 42:10
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.
“… you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Exodus 19:6
Revelation 5:11
I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,
“A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
Daniel 7:10
Revelation 5:12
saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!
“The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.”
Psalms 68:17
Revelation 5:13
I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!
“There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”
Daniel 7:14
