Date: 4/16/2004
Time: 10:58:03 AM
Like the readings from John and Acts for today, this text is about recognizing and following Jesus. In the author's vision, thousands and thousands of angels proclaim the extraordinary revelation of God through the weak, slain person of Jesus. It is not easy for a violent, power-hungry world to recognize Jesus. How does the weakness of Christ, revealed to be the strength of God, show us what it means to feed or tend his sheep, to protect the weak?
Date: 4/16/2004
Time: 10:58:41 AM
The vision of John recorded in Revelation offers a glimpse of cosmic worship on the Lord's Day. At its center is "the Lamb who was slain."
Date: 4/18/2004
Time: 4:28:47 AM
That's an interesting comment about "cosmic worship". I agree, but also believe that we are a part of this magnificance now and do not relize it or maybe appreciate to it's fullest!
In 5:12 it lists all the things that man wants to steal from the Lamb, that can never quite be obtained and often leads to frustration because these characteristics were meant for Jesus and his knogdom, not man's.
It's also interesting to note in 5:13 that every creature (including the ones who made poor choices and do not live in Heaven), proclaim this truth and invoke blessings.
Maybe I'm still emotional from the first Sunday in Easter, but trying to envision this time listed above gives me a lump in my throat and a warmth from the Spirit!
RZS in Pa
Date: 4/23/2004
Time: 11:13:26 AM
This cosmic worship, the kind of worship of the Church Triumphant listed here, needs to be the model for worship by the Church Militant also. So much going on in worship today does not do that.