I remember hearing "Revolution 9" on the Beatles' White Album, back in the day. . . but this is more significant, and, in the long run historically, far more significant:
"I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written, inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?"
And no one in heaven or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look into it. Then I began to weep greatly, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it.
Then one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, so as to open the book and its seven seals.
And I saw at the throne with the tree living creatures, the Lamb of God,
(Christ Jesus) standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
And he came and he took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.
When he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of saints. And they sang a new song:
"Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain. . . and you purchased for God, with your blood, men from every tribe and nation."
In the last two chapters of Revelation, indeed. . . the last two chapters of the entire Bible, we find a description of the new heaven and earth, the eternal kingdom of God. The eternal city has a great high wall, maybe something like this one in Cambridge, Massachusetts:
. . . which is across the street from Alaetheia Church where, today, we saw 24 people baptized into that eternal Kingdom.
Listen:
Revelation 5:9
King of Soul
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