THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS DONE IT ALL: HE TORE THE VEIL HE MADE THE WAY WHEN HE SAID THAT IT IS FINISHED. Why Salvation Has To Come By Faith ▬Rather Than Justification By Works There is only One who is worthy in all heaven and earth. Only One who was fully man and fully God. Only One who is the propitiation for our sins. pro·pi·ti·ate verb \prō-ˈpi-shē-ˌāt\ : to make (someone) pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired Full Definition of PROPITIATE transitive verb : to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease 1: to bring to a state of peace or quiet : calm 2: to cause to subside : allay 3: pacify, conciliate; especially : to buy off (an aggressor) by concessions usually at the sacrifice of principles Only One was able to pay the ransom: buying us back from the wages of sin, which is eternal death. No one else could keep the commandments. No one else could fulfill the Law. No one else could present themselves an unblemished sacrificial Lamb. Oh, but Worthy Is The Lamb! The Lamb Takes the Scroll Revelation 5:1-7 NKJV 1 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” 3 And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. 4 So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read[a] the scroll, or to look at it. 5 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[b] its seven seals.” 6 And I looked, and behold,[c] 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. 7 Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. Gills Exposition of the Entire Bible And one of the elders said unto me,....one of these elders; that is, one of the four and twenty elders that were round about the throne. It was one of the members of the Christian church, who was near the throne of God, had communion with him, and knowledge of his will, who in this visionary way is represented as comforting John under his sorrow and concern, and giving him information: and sometimes persons of superior abilities may receive instruction from meaner persons, as did Apollos from Aquila and Priscilla: the same said unto John, weep not; cease sorrowing, do not be cast down, nor despair; behold the lion of the tribe of Judah; by whom is meant Christ, who, according to the flesh, was to come of the tribe of Judah; and certain it is, that our Lord sprang from thence: and he is said to be the lion of that tribe, in allusion to the prophecy concerning Judah in Genesis 49:9, where he is said to be a lion, an old lion stooping down and couching, and on whose standard was the figure of a lion. Christ may be compared to one, because of his great strength, he being the mighty God, the able Savior, and strong Redeemer, and protector of his church and people, and the avenger of their enemies; and because of his courage and intrepidity when he engaged with Satan, and his principalities and powers, when he bore the sins of his people, sustained his Fathers wrath, and the terrors of death set themselves in array against him; and because of the fierceness of his wrath, and fury against the wicked, and for his generosity and leniency towards those that stoop unto him, and obey him. The root of David; in like manner is Christ called the root of Jesse in Isaiah 11:10; and he is Davids Lord, according to his divine nature: and the metaphor of a root well agrees with him as Mediator, he being hidden out of sight, and unknown to a natural man; and may denote his meanness in his state of humiliation, when he was as a root out of a dry ground; and because he is the root from whence all the elect of God spring, in whom they have their being, and by whom they are bore and supported, and from whom are derived to them all the blessings of grace, all their spiritual life, holiness, fruitfulness, and perseverance. Now this illustrious Person, so described, hath prevailed; or overcome all difficulties, being one of worth and value, of great authority and ability: to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof; and deliver out all the prophecies in it, and fulfill them; and this through the merits of his blood, and in consequence of his sufferings and death: hence, in the next verse, he is represented as a lamb as it had been slain; and the four living creatures, and the four and twenty elders, put his worthiness to take the book, and open it, upon his having been slain, and having redeemed them by his blood, Revelation 5:9. And as he, upon his resurrection from the dead, had all power in heaven and in earth given him, as Mediator, for the protection of his church, so he was deserving; and it was fit and necessary that he, as the great prophet of the church, should have and deliver out the prophecies concerning the state and condition of his redeemed ones in all ages.
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