In Revelation 5, this Worthy One comes forward to take a scroll from the hand of God. This scroll is the book of God’s eternal decrees – the unfolding of redemptive history. As Jesus opens the sealed book in Revelation 6, a series of visions remind us that any apparent delays in God’s fulfillment of His redemptive plan for this world are just that – appearances. God is at work. Everything is unfolding just as He intended. The unjust are getting justice. The people of God have not been forsaken. And God is winding down the old heavens and earth to make way for the new. God sees. He cares. He acts. And this is comfort when everything we see seems to say otherwise.
Join us this week as we examine Revelation 6 and find comfort in the reminder that, “the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
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