What the Law has assembled in this vision differs from the inaugural vision where the risen Christ presents himself as the fulfilment of the Law. So significance of the seven candlesticks derives from specific feature he reveals. For example, in his message to Ephesus,"These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks."(2.1)
Not so in the ch.5. The tableau of the throne is set rendering what is present and what is heard, past present and eternity responding as though compressed in it. Elders 24 in number represent " 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, heard I saying,"(5.13.) The four and twenty is made up of 3x8=24. Jesus in death visited souls in prison so lower parts is very much represented. The body created by everlasting gospel responds with the new song. With regards to the four beasts they also embody the voice of the Lord so Ch.6 begins"and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see." They were introduced in ch.4 and they are like seraphim worshipping, ' and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come, nevertheless there is the quality of the voice of Lord coming from 'among' them.(Re.4.8-9)
As with seven candlesticks we shall see breaking open seven seals and consequence of each covers from beginning till the ending. For this reason the risen Christ introocuces himself,' I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." (1.8)
The entire revelation id given through an angel' so in 5.2 we see 'another' angel and this distinction is to be kept in focus.
"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."(Deut.29.29)
What the Law has assembled in this vision differs from the inaugural vision where the risen Christ presents himself as the fulfilment of the Law. So significance of the seven candlesticks derives from specific feature he reveals. For example, in his message to Ephesus,"These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks."(2.1)
Not so in the ch.5. The tableau of the throne is set rendering what is present and what is heard, past present and eternity responding as though compressed in it. Elders 24 in number represent " 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, heard I saying,"(5.13.) The four and twenty is made up of 3x8=24. Jesus in death visited souls in prison so lower parts is very much represented. The body created by everlasting gospel responds with the new song. With regards to the four beasts they also embody the voice of the Lord so Ch.6 begins"and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see." They were introduced in ch.4 and they are like seraphim worshipping, ' and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come, nevertheless there is the quality of the voice of Lord coming from 'among' them.(Re.4.8-9)
As with seven candlesticks we shall see breaking open seven seals and consequence of each covers from beginning till the ending. For this reason the risen Christ introocuces himself,' I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." (1.8)
The entire revelation id given through an angel' so in 5.2 we see 'another' angel and this distinction is to be kept in focus.
"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."(Deut.29.29)
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