Open your Bibles, please, to the last book of the Bible, the book of the Revelation. We are going to read today in Revelation chapter five, and we'll see if the Lord will help us to take this subject of the worship of the Redeemer that is found in the fifth chapter of the book of the Revelation. It's a beautiful chapter, and I would like you please to follow me as I'm reading those fourteen verses of chapter five. I begin, and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, The root of David has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. And he came, and he took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

And when he had taken the book, the four beasts, and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and has redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation, and has made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such that are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down, and worshipped him that liveth for ever And ever. Wonderful chapter this Revelation chapter five, and I want us brothers and sisters to get the beautiful thought that the writer here, John, that received this message from the glorified Mashiach in heaven, who had given to him this book of the Revelation. I want you again to understand how the scene is being set before us here in the book of the Revelation.

We have covered in our last ministry meeting, we have covered Revelation chapter four, and in Revelation chapter four we saw that John was called to go to heaven, where the Lord has said to him in chapter four and verse one, After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I will show you. The things which must be hereafter.

John had been carried up to heaven, and we see really the church is being taken up to glory now, is being right now in heaven around the throne that we have in Old Chapter 4, around God, the 24 elders representing the heavenly company that have been taken up at the rapture of the assembly, the rapture of the church. Last chapter, chapter 4, we have spoken about last time, they were worshipping the Creator. They have fell down before Him and worshiped Him as the Creator. Remember they said to Him in verse 11, Thou art worthy, this is chapter 4 and verse 11, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for You have created all things.

They have fell before God and they worshiped the One who sat on the throne because He was the Creator. That was chapter four. But right now when we are coming to chapter five, we find out not so much the worship of the Creator, but the worship of the Redeemer. And you see, brothers and sisters, the ones that are in heaven, worshiping the Redeemer are those, of course, the angelic being, the seraphim that we have seen in chapter four with the six wings, but specifically, brothers and sisters, the twenty-four elders who are representing there the assembly, the church, the believers, they are now worshiping the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, as the Redeemer. And you know, this is something that we are going to do throughout eternity, when we are going to be in the presence of the Lord. We are going to worship Him for what He has done for us, that He has redeemed us, that He has purchased us with His precious blood, and that throughout eternity we are going to worship Him.

And now I want to just to see what happened. See, in chapter 4 we saw God the Father sitting on the throne, and chapter 5 began in the first four verses with the one that sits on the throne, but the thing that we find out in chapter 5 that he hold a book in his hand. Actually it says he's holding a book in his right hand. Notice that verse 1, 2, 3, and 4, we see the book with the seven seals that is in God the Father's right hand. Let me just reread it for a moment, chapter 5 verse 1, And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book.

Written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Pause with me here for a moment. The question immediately is what is this book is all about? Actually, it should be really written, I saw at the right hand of him that sit upon the throne, a scroll. That was a simple scroll, rolled scroll that is being rolled with seven seals. You write something a little bit, and then you roll it and you seal it. You write a little more, and you seal it, and you roll it and seal it, and you write a little more, and you roll it. Seven time this scroll had been sealed.

And we see here God, the Father, who sits upon the throne, as it says in verse one, and he has in his right hand a book or a scroll written within and also on the backside. Sealed with seven seals. Now, usually, when in the olden time, when they used to make a contract, make an agreement, they would write it on a piece of paper. Of course, at that time, obviously, it was more than just a piece of paper. It was actually almost like a parchment. And one would write on that parchment, they would make an agreement, they would purchase a property, and they would write the agreement, and they would seal it.

And to say that this property belonged to the person who purchased it. And so, in a similar way, we see here that God the Father, and I'm using the expression God the Father because we see that there is a distinguishing here between God the Father and God the Son as the Lamb. We're going to see it in a moment. And you can see that the book is in the hand of the one that is holding it, that's sitting upon the throne. Now the question that I ask, what is that book all about? Well, actually, this book is the title deed to this earth. It is a title deed, it declared the ownership of this earth. That's what it is. Some suggest that it is the will of a holy God for mankind.

It is the title deed to the universe. Others suggest it is the ownership of the world. And so here, God is holding this scroll in his right hand, and notice it is written on within and also on the back side. Apparently, there's so much that needed to be exclaimed and written that it's not only written on one side, but it is also written on the other side.

I just want to show you, if you turn for a moment to Jeremiah chapter 32, I just want to show you that it is Hebraic, a Jewish thing to do, that historically our people Israel have done it when they purchase a property. In Jeremiah chapter 32, it says in verse 6, And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanamiel, the son of Shalom, thine uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field, that is in Anatot, for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. And then I'm going to go down in verse 8, he says to him, Buy my field. And then in verse 9, he says, And I bought the field of Hanamiel. You understand? And then it says in verse 9b, he says, I bought the field of Hananiel, my uncle's son, that was of Anatot, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

And I subscribed the evidence, and I sealed it. You see, here is Jeremiah saying that the word of the Lord came to him, you go buy the field that belonged to Hananiel, and purchase this with a certain amount of money, he paid seventeen shekel for this property, and then he subscribed it, the evidence, and he sealed it. In fact, if you look a little bit further down, he used the word book there in verse twelve. And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Masiah, in the sight of Hananiah, my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribe the book of the purchase before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. And you see what happened? There was a purchase of a property, and that is a title deed that shows that this property belonged to you. The price was then and there seventeen shekel that Jeremiah is mentioning, and he took the book, he took the scroll, he sealed it.

And he held that another one is the one that is the owner of the property. Well, what's happening in Revelation chapter 5, God is holding a scroll in his right hand, which is sealed with seven seals. Now, this is so beautiful to see, because immediately after we read this, there's a cry of an angel. An angel is crying in verse 2 of Revelation 5. He saw a strong angel, and he's crying, proclaiming with a loud voice and saying, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof? The cry went, saying, Who is worthy to open this book, to loose the seven seals thereof?

What we find here in verse two, that the cry of this angel was to see if there is anybody that is able to take this title deed to this earth, from the hand of God the Father, to open it and to execute what is written in this book. The cry came with the question that has been risen, and you know, the question that has been risen may very well be questioned today, who is worthy today to have the right and authority to rule this world that God had given to mankind?

The question, of course, was risen, the question was asked, but apparently in the next verse, there is an answer, there is no one was able to open that book. Look at this, it's verse three, it says, And no man in heaven, nor in earth, Neither under the earth was able to open the book, neither to look even upon that book. See, no one was able. And I want you to notice it used the word no man.

Why it used the word no man? Because God had given the right of rulership to this world to man, to Adam, already long time ago when Adam was created by God in the garden. But something happened. That Adam lost the right to the title deed, the right and authority to own this world, this universe, as he received it from the hand of God. I'll show you this. If you don't mind, please turn with me to the book of Genesis for a moment, to Genesis chapter one. Just turn there for a moment and you will see that. You see what happened. When God created man, created Adam, He had given him the right and authority over this universe.

Look, it says in verse 26 of Genesis chapter 1, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, let them have dominion, the word dominion, that they will rule, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. You notice that? He says, let them have dominion. In other words, he said to them, I want you, Adam and Eve, to be the king and the queen of this universe.

Let them have dominion. Let them rule over everything. And then it says, so God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. And God blessed them, verse 28, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And look, he continue again to say, and subdue this earth, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. See, God gave the authority to Adam and Eve to be the ones that we rule over the affair of this world. But look, if you turn to chapter 2 of Genesis, he gave them a command. It says in chapter 2 and verse 8, The Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, good for food.

The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And then he commended in verse 16, he said, The Lord commended a man, and he's saying to him, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that you will eat of it, you shall surely die.

In Hebrew, mot tamut, dying you shall die. And so God gave the authority over this universe to Adam, and actually, brothers and sisters, he had only requested from him one thing not to do, it is not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And he said to him, the day that you will eat out of this tree, dying, you shall die, thou shall surely die. We'll turn to chapter three in Genesis, and look what happened. It says in verse one, And the serpent was more subtle than all the beasts of the field. And then it says, which the Lord had made, and he said unto the woman, Has God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God had said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, that your eyes will be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw the tree was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eye, and the tree was desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and she did eat, and she gave it unto her husband, and he did eat as well. Now you see what happened, brothers and sisters, the very God who had given the right of authority to Adam over this universe is the very God who commanded Adam not to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam told this to his wife, his wife was beguiled by the serpent, by Satan, who appeared in the garden. She had eaten of it, being beguiled by Satan, she gave it unto her husband, and instead of refusing to eat, he took it in disobedience to the word of God.

You see, God clearly said to him, thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you will eat therefore, you shall surely die. And Adam violated the word of God. And by violating the word of God, he plunged the whole human race into sin. And the disobedience of Adam brought distance between Adam and God, and if you remember, God judged Adam, he judged Eve, and he judged the serpent, he judged Satan, and he cast them out of the garden of Eden. And from there on, beloved brothers and sisters, man by nature is at a distance from God. He is far away from God. We read of Cain, that he went out of the presence of the Lord, and we never ever read of Cain ever coming back to God.

Men by sin have caused a separation between a holy God and the human race. And from the time that Adam and Eve fell at the Garden of Eden, up till this present day, you can see the distance it's existing between a holy God and a sinful man. And so, the cry was in heaven, who is worthy? Notice there chapter five of Revelation, who is worthy to open the book? Who is worthy to lose the seals? Who has the right to take authority? Who is the one that can restore the earth back to a holy and a righteous God?

And no man. And I want you to know that it doesn't say even no one, it says no men, because it is men that have fallen. It is men that have departed from God. It is Adam who have departed from the will of God, and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is a verse that is important to read, and I'm going to read this right now as well, in Romans chapter 5 in the New Testament, in verse 12 of Romans chapter 5, where we read, As by one man sin enter into the world, and death by sin, even so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. Romans chapter 5 and verse 12. What we see here is a declaration that by one man sin enter into this world, and that man is Adam.

You notice it is unsay by one woman sin entered into this world because man, Adam, was the federal head of the human race. He was the one who was responsible, had the authority that God had given to him to reign over this world as king. And every one of us have been a descendants of Adam, which inherited the sinful nature of Adam.

And just the same like Adam was no longer worthy to take the book, neither you and I, because there was no man found. And you notice that it says in Revelation chapter 5, no man was found neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to take the book and to loose the seals thereof. That tells us, brothers and sisters, the condition of the human race is that man is at a distance from God, and no man is able to restore back to the human race the world that God have first given it to mankind. People try to do this, you see, there are many rulers in this world who is trying to restore this world, trying to get things fixed. Many kings have been risen, many rulers have been risen over the generation, and they are saying that I am able to take the authority and to restore everything in a right way.

And you find out that the Bible shows us that no one was able, no one could ever restore, no one could ever take the title deed back from the hand of the one who sit upon the throne. And so, in verse four, when John heard that statement, he began to weep. It says in verse four, I wept much. You know, the grief that John had experienced when he heard such a statement. He wept.

He wept much, and he tells us the reason why, John, why did you weep? Why are you weeping? He says, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither even to look upon that book. No one is worthy. John wept. It grieved him in his heart when he saw what was proclaiming there by the angel. He saw that the book in the hand of God the Father. He heard the proclamation of this great angel, and the answer was that no one is worthy. And so, the first four verses we see the book, the scroll, which is sealed with seven seals in the hand of God the Father, and then the book itself, as we have mentioned, is the title deed to this earth. So the next verses, brothers and sisters, we find out the worship of the one who is worthy to open the book. It's now, in a sense, moving, shifting from looking at the human race and trying to find someone from among the fallen race to be able to open the book, to loose the seals.

No one was found in this earth, and then it's shifting now when finally there was one that had been found that is worthy to open the book and to loose the seven seals. And so in verses 5 to 14, we have the worship of this one. And the worship is really divided into three reasons. Why was the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, worthy to open the book, to loose the seven seals, and to read what is written in the book? There are three reasons, and they are given to us here. First of all, the first reason why he was worthy is because of who he is. This is verses 5, 6, and 7. The second reason to worship Him is because what He has done. This is verses 8, 9, and 10. And the third reason to worship Him is because of what He had received. And this is verses 11 to 14. Because of who He is, because of what He has done, and because of what He had received.

That's why He was worshiped there in glory. So let's look at this and we'll see. First of all, you notice that because of who the Lord Yeshua the Messiah is. It says in verse 5, And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not, John, weep not. Behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, He has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

You see, while John was weeping because no one was found to open the book and to loose the seven seals, one of the elders, and you remember those elders, there were twenty four elders seen in heaven. Those twenty four elders representing the heavenly company, the church, and every one of them was a redeemed person. You remember earlier we read in chapter four that they were covered with white raiment, and they had crowns of gold upon them. In other words, they were forgiven people. They had been washed and cleansed, and they had white raiment. And one of those elders, he said unto John, John, listen, stop to cry, John. Look, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, he has prevailed.

He directing John to the one that is called the lion of the tribe of Judah, that's number one, and secondly, the root of David. These are the two messianic titles that we have in Scripture concerning of Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of this world. You see, the lion of the tribe of Judah was given to us in Genesis chapter 49, when Yaakov, whose name was changed to Yisrael, who was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel, who have taken and called his sons to come to him in order that he will bless them. And in Genesis chapter 49, he took every one of his sons and he ascribed blessing and prophetic blessing to his own sons. And when he got to Judah, in chapter 49, in verse 8, he says, Judah, you are he whom thy brethren shall praise.

Thy hands shall be in the neck of your enemies, and thy father's children shall bow down before you, Judah. He continued in verse 9, and he said, Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? And then he said in verse 10, The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. You see, Yaakov, Israel, was pronouncing blessing on Judah, and he was saying to Judah, he says, You are a lion's whelp. You are the one that is like a lion. He says here, the scepter will not depart from Judah until Shiloh will come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. And so the pronouncing of the blessing to say to Judah that he's like a lion.

And the lion of the tribe of Judah is a messianic title that tells us that the gathering of the people will come to this Shiloh, that who is the one that is out of the tribe of Judah. The scepter, the rulership, will be given to the tribe of Judah. And a lion, when you think of a lion, dear brothers and sisters, he is the one that have an authority, he's devouring, he's in control. Today, if you ask anyone who will say, tell us about the lion, he will say that he is the king of the forest.

And when you think that John had been directed, he is called the lion of the tribe of Judah. He's a descendant of the tribe of Judah. He came out of the tribe of Judah. In fact, if you will notice now, the next statement, not only that he's the lion of the tribe of Judah, but he's also the root of David. Out of Judah came David. But David was also the offspring, in other words, the root here is out of which David came to this world. So what you really see here, the lion of the tribe of Judah and the root of David, we see the two aspects of the coming of the Messiah. He came from David, and David came from him. He came from David, meaning that he's a descendant of David, but also David came out of him. In other words, the Messiah is the root out of which David rose.

So you can see the divine nature and the humanity of the Messiah. Many times when you read in the Scripture, the Son of David is mentioned many times in the Bible, in the New Testament. Ben David, the Son of David. But also we have the Scripture that tells us that he was the root of David. David came out of him. David is actually a descendant or the one that came out of the Messiah who is eternal, the Son of God. If you just go back for a moment to the prophet Isaiah, where we read earlier in chapter 11, look at this, what Isaiah said about the Messiah in connection with the root of David. In chapter 11 of the prophet Isaiah, it says in verse 1, And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch will grow out of his roots. Here it is again. See, a branch that will grow out of the roots.

And so he came from David, but David also came from him. He is the one that he is a divine person but also human at the same time. Many years ago when I first opened to read the New Testament, when I even had the nerve to open the Brit HaChadashah, I never read it before, and I read the first verse of Matthew chapter one. I thought that the Brit HaChadashah is a non-Jewish book. I thought we Jewish people do not read the New Testament. And you notice what it says in the first verse of Matthew chapter one? This is the book of the generation of Yeshua the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Ben David, Ben Abraham. He came out of David, but also David came out of him. This is the one that John saw in Revelation chapter five and verse five. And he looked, and what did he say? He said to him, Look at the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, he has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And so in verse six, he's turning around, he's expecting to see a lion. So it says here in verse six, And I beheld, and what do we see? And lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. You see, the elder proclaimed the lion of the tribe of Judah. So John is turning around, and he's expecting to see a lion, and what does he see? He see a lamb, as it had been slain. And the fat here not only had been slain, it had been freshly slain. That's what he sees. He see there the Lamb, he see the Messiah, Yeshua, as a Lamb that had been freshly slain.

That tells us about the sacrificial work of Yeshua, the Messiah, freshly slain. You know, in the presence of God, the work that Yeshua, the Messiah, had accomplished on the tree two thousand years ago, in the presence of God, is as it have just have done it today. God look at the work of Yeshua, the Messiah, that he have done for him on our behalf, and God looks at this as if was freshly slain, just came out of the altar, just now is laid on the altar.

This shows us the work of Yeshua, the Messiah, and what He has done for us, the Lamb that had been freshly slain. And again, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that when you look at this passage, look at it from a Hebraic, Messianic, prophetic word, because God had promised our people Israel, 750 years ago, when He wrote the prophet Isaiah, He was speaking about the Messiah. And if you remember the first seven verses of Isaiah 53, Isaiah said, As a lamb He was led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before a shearer is dumb, and He opened not His mouth.

Prophetically, God showing to us when the Messiah would come to this world, He will be led as a lamb to the slaughter. As a sheep, His dumb is not opening His mouth, they had been taking to the altar, they sheared Him and laid Him on the altar and crucified Him. That's what happened to the Messiah when He gave up His life for us. He is the Lamb that had been freshly slain. That's what He is saying here in verse 6. And you remember John in the Gospel said in verse 29 in John 1, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of this world. That's the one that is set before us now in glory. Yes, we have God on the throne, but we have the Lamb there in the midst of the throne, presented before the elders and the beasts or the living creatures.

And they see that Lamb as it had been freshly slain. Those of us that are believers, you know, when we are going to go to heaven one day, and we are going to be standing there in the presence of God, we are going to be reminded again and again of the price that Yeshua, the Messiah, paid for us when He died for us on the tree. He's gonna be ever fresh before us. He's gonna be ever set before us so we will produce within our heart a worship of praise to him because of what he have done for us.

And so here he is in verse six, John is looking and he sees that lamb. And you notice what it says here in verse seven, he says that that lamb, he, you see now how it is distinguished between God the Son and God the Father because notice it says in verse seven, he, this is the lamb, the son, he took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. This is God the Father. You see, he could go and he could take the book from the hand of God the Father. Why? Because he purchased, he paid the price that no one was able to pay. So it says here that he came and he took the book from the hand of the Father. And again I want to remind you the book is a scroll which is a title deed, an authority to restore the earth back to the one that gave it to man.

Adam lost it in the garden to Satan. Satan is now actually called in the Bible the prince of the power of the air. In fact if you remember that we read in second Corinthians chapter four, the God of this world had blinded the mind of them that believe not lest they should believe in a glorious gospel. In fact Satan is called today small g the God of this world. In Ephesians chapter two he is called the prince of the power of the air.

In the gospel of John Yeshua said the God of this world sought to find something against me and he found nothing. You see, Satan took control over this earth, and that's why we ask so many questions today. Why there's so much mess in this world? Why there's so much grief in this world? Because the God, small g, of this world is the one who controlling this earth. Look at the chaos that's going on today in the world in which we live in. Look at the condition that existing today, the mess that is happening today, the hatred and the wars and all that which is going on in the world today, which shows to us who is controlling this world.

Mind you, God Himself can change anything, but in a sense, Adam, because of sin, lost the right, the title deed to this earth, and now Satan is controlling this world, and who is worthy now to restore this world back to the way God had given to it? There was no one found until John was directed to the Lamb which had been slain. And so, brothers and sisters, in the next verses, not only that we read who is He, verses 5, 6, and 7, but now notice that it says to us in verse 8, 9, and 10, what He had done.

Look what it says here. In verse 8, And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb. Having every one of them harps and golden vials full of orders which are the prayers of the saints, and they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and thou has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongues, and people, and nation, and has made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign over the earth. You see, now the praise is being directed to the Messiah, Yeshua, the one who had paid the price in order to redeem men to himself. You see, immediately John says, when the Lamb took the book from the hand of God the Father, immediately, brothers and sisters, in verse 8, there is the falling down of the living creatures and of the elders.

See that they fell down before him in worship, in adoration. And it said that they had every one of them harps, and also every one of them golden vials full of order, which are the prayers of the saints. See that the saints, you know, we often ask, what are we going to do in heaven? We're going to play the harps. Every one of them had a harp, apparently here in verse 8, but also notice they had this golden vial or a golden bowl, which is full of order, which are the prayers and the praises of the saints.

Now that is very interesting expression, this golden vials or golden bowls that have order. You know, the first time we find this in the scripture is when God said to Israel to build him the tabernacle, and in Exodus chapter 30, within the tabernacle, there was also the altar of incense. And the altar of incense, Israel were to use this altar, this is the priest, of course, to lift up this aroma, this incense to God. And it says here in verse 1 of Exodus chapter 30, And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon them.

And you can just imagine when the priest would take the incense, these are special incense that the choir that God have given responsibility to Aaron to prepare. And these incense, these dear brothers and sisters, would be burnt, and the aroma, the smell of it would rise up to heaven, and God smell it. And it remind him of the work that is going to be accomplished by the promised Messiah. It's to remind him because it is the praises of the saints which rise to God because of what the Messiah have done. And that is beautiful to see that. You remember we also read today in Psalm 141 in verse 2, Let my prayers be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifices. This is Psalm 141 in verse 2. Let my prayers be set before thee like an incense. And the word for prayer is not only the prayer but also the praises.

And so what we really see here that the twenty four elders and the living creatures having these bowls that are full of incense that's rising up, that reminding us and reminding God of the finished work of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Beautiful sight to see. But not only this, in the next verse, in verse nine, they were singing that new song. Look at this, beautiful, it says, And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongues and people and nations. You know why I can definitely say that those twenty four elders are those redeemed company? Because notice they are exclaiming, You have redeemed us. You paid the price for us, from every people and tongues and nation.

It was a new song in the Bible. By the way, the first time that we hear of singing is only after Israel came out of Egypt, and they sung that song of redemption. You see, when a person is not forgiven, not saved, he cannot sing. Oh yes, you can make music, you can sing in a sense a worldly song, but it's not a worship song. A song that come out of redeemed heart, a forgiven sinner, a saved individual that can sing to God.

We never read in the Bible of singing, only when our people Israel came out of Egypt, and they have crossed the sea. We read in the Bible, then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord. And a beautiful song because they've been forgiven. They've been redeemed. They came out of Egypt, out of slavery, out of bondage. And now they could sing to God and they could praise Him.

But in Egypt, they couldn't do that. In Egypt, they were in bondage. They were groaning. They were in pain. They could not enjoy the God who loved them so much. They needed to be forgiven. They needed someone paying the price for their redemption. And that's even the story of Pesach, Passover, when the Passover lamb was killed and the blood of the lamb was placed in the doorpost and the lintel. And the judge, Passover, the horns of the Hebrews, then they came out as a redeemed company and they could sing the song unto the Lord. And it is a new song. You know what is the old song? The old song is a song of creation. Job shows us that the creation song was sung, but it is creation. God created all things, but men fell into sin, men have departed from him, so God needed to redeem, to buy back men to himself.

And so here we find, and they sung a new song. Somebody said about this new song in verses nine and ten, that it is a five-fold new song. First of all, it was a worship song. Look, it says in verse nine, they said, thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals. It is a worship song that come out of the heart of a redeemed person. You are worthy, Lord. Then secondly, it's not only a worship song, it is a gospel song. Why? Look at this again. It says in verse 9b, For thou was slain, and redeemed us to God by your blood. That's the gospel. That's the besorah, as we say it in Hebrew. That's the good news. You've redeemed us. We were sinners. We were far from God. You paid the price for my sin, for our sins.

Thirdly, it's not only a worship song and a gospel song, it is also a missionary song, because it's for all nations. Because notice it says, You redeem us to God by your blood out of every kindred and tongues and people and nation. This is a missionary song, because the mission of the missionary, of the one who shared the message, is to reach out with that message to every creature upon the face of this universe.

It is a song of a missionary song. And then in verse ten, we have the fourth and the fifth aspect of the song. It is also a devotional song, because it says in verse ten, And you have made us unto our God kings and priests. This is a devotional song. Can you meditate and imagine that God had made you and I? That God had made sinners who deserve to be separated from Him. He made us kings and priests. Can you imagine what God have done through Yeshua the Messiah?

It's something to devotion, to meditate, and to think of what happened when Yeshua the Messiah paid a price for us. But fifthly, it is also a prophetic song, because it says at the end of verse ten, We shall reign over the earth. This prophetic, the saints here, the church here, the heavenly company, the twenty four elders there, are in heaven, and they are looking forward for the time that they will reign with the Messiah over this universe at the millennial age. It is a prophetic song.

So, beloved brothers and sisters, this five-fold new song is a worship song, a gospel song, a missionary song, a devotional song, and a prophetic song. It's a new song. Before we became believers in Yeshua, we couldn't sing that song, but now that we have come to know Him as our Lord and our Savior, we can sing that song, and we can tell Him, Lord, You are worthy. Why? Because You have been slain. You paid the price. You have redeemed us to God, and it cost You your blood.

When Peter wrote his epistle to the Hebrew believers a first century, you know what he told them in first Peter one and verse eighteen? He says, you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold from your vain manner of life. No, he said to them, but you have been redeemed by the precious blood of the Messiah, a Salem without spot, without blemish.

That's what happened, brothers and sisters. That's what happened when Yeshua, the Messiah, died for us. There was no blemish in him. There was no spot in him. There was no sin in him. And he was willing to come down to this world to pay the price in order that we will be redeemed. And I trust that every one of us here in this room Can definitely say today in his or her heart, I know that I'm forgiven because I've accepted the precious, precious blood of Yeshua the Messiah and apply it to my own life, made it my own.

And so finally, brothers and sisters, in verses eleven to fourteen, we see the third reason why the worship is rising up, not only because of who he is, not only because of what he has done, but also because of what he had received from God, because of what he has done. Look, John now sees many who are around the throne. Again, notice John is saying, I beheld, he's speaking about himself. He says, I've been carried to heaven, chapter four and verse one, and now I'm here in this scene in glory in heaven, in chapter four, creation, in chapter five, redemption is being emphasized. Chapter six, there's the judgment that are going to come down on this world, chapter six, seven, all the way to the end of chapter nineteen. Chapter 20 gonna be the millennial age when Israel is being restored. Chapter 21 and 22 we have the eternal order where there will be no sin anymore, the eternal order.

But now he's in heaven before the judgment coming upon the earth, before Israel is being restored, he's now, he's looking and what does he see? Look, he shows us what the Messiah had received because of what he had done. It says in verse 11, I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beast or the living creature, and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousand of thousand. What John is saying really, that around the throne there were many angels and also the living creatures. Now I want you to notice that. You remember that we asked the question when we looked at chapter 4, who are the 24 elders? And some may have said that those are angels, but we can see that they are not angels because in the same verse 11, it distinguished between the angels, between the beasts, and between the elders.

So we know that in creation there are the angels, there are the living creatures as the seraphim, there are the cherubim, but also we can see here the heavenly company, the church, the 24 elders representing there the heavenly company, the church. And then you notice it says here in verse 11, and the number of them, how many do you think they were there? Look, ten thousand times ten thousand, that's a million. And then this million times thousands of thousands. That millions and millions of those that have been redeemed over the whole church history.

Now, you and I sometimes look and we see the vast amount of people today in the world that are unbelievers. Now can you imagine? Already almost two thousand years of history of the church, can you imagine how many people came to faith in Yeshua, the Messiah, as a redeemed people who received the Messiah? We sometimes look at ourselves as a small group of people and we wonder, we look at ourselves and it's come to number, we are like a drop in the water. And if you talk about Jewish believers, we are drop in this great ocean.

But according to here, look how many believers were there. Ten thousand times ten thousand, and then thousands of thousands. John is looking and he sees multitude of people there around about the throne. And then in verse twelve, look at the proclamation. What did they do? What do you think they're gonna do? They are going to sing that new song and they will ascribe worthiness to the Messiah, to the Lamb of God, which took away the sin of this world. They are saying in verse twelve, with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Now remember, brothers and sisters, every time we are going back to the Lamb that was slain. Because when the Lamb was slain, the price was paid. God could not bring people back to Himself without the price of redemption. Redemption had to be acquired. Price for sin had to be paid.

Not by money, not by silver and gold, but the precious blood of the Messiah. His life was cut off in the midst of the living. And so it says here, worthy is the lamb that was slain. To receive what? To receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. Now I want you to notice that also here, that he received it. Now let's remember that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah is the eternal Son of God. He has the ownership of this world by virtue of the fact that He is divine. But here in Revelation chapter 5, He received the ownership of this world by virtue of His humanity and by virtue of His price that He paid on the cross. In other words, He received something from God as man.

Oh, he always was the eternal Son of God. He always was the one that had a right to this world, but he had to become a man to redeem sinners like us. So he can now restore back which we have lost, but it cost him his life. So now God is giving him, and man is giving him that which belong to him as man this time because of what he have done on the cross. Power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing.

You know in John chapter five and verse twenty three, when the religious leaders of our people Israel did not accept him and they challenged him, he said many time when he was speaking there in verse twenty three of John chapter five, I'll read verse twenty two as well. For the father judged no man, but he commended all judgment unto the son, that all men should honor the son, even as they honor the father. He that honors not the son honoreth not the father which he hath sent.

Already before he died, he says that God, the father, had honored him, and the one that doesn't honor the son does not honor the father. So here we can see that now he received that honor and the strength, and the riches, and the wisdom, and the power, and the glory, and the blessing. Then it says in verse thirteen, the adoration by all the creation, it says there, and every creature which is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said Amen, and the four and twenty elders fell down and worshiped him that liveth for ever and ever. You see, brothers and sisters, what the sight that we see here, that actually the adoration of all creation, that adore the Messiah, Yeshua, because of what he have done. And this time, the emphasis is not on creation. This time, the emphasis is on redemption. Because of the price that he paid when he died for us on the cross. I want to conclude with just one verse in the book of Psalm. If you turn with me to Psalm 2, and I'm going to conclude there. In those verses there, it's a messianic psalm.

And this messianic psalm is really, prophetically speaking, of the voice of God the Father, the voice of God the Son, and the voice of God the Holy Spirit. When we read the portion that speaks about the voice of God the Son, we read the Son declaring in verse 7, 8, and 9. It says, I will declare, the Lord, this is God the Father, say it unto me, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

You shall break them with a rod of iron, you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. The Messiah speaking here, and he says that Yehovah, the Lord, spoke with him and told him, Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. And that's what will happen, brothers and sisters. What we lost because of Adam, we have gained because of Yeshua, the Messiah. What we lost because of the fall in the Garden of Eden, we gain when the Messiah paid the price for our sins on the tree. And now today, those of us who are believers, we are part of this heavenly company that we can today worship and praise the Lord for what He has done for us, and the sea now in heaven is ended with the praising of the Messiah because of what He has done for us, and from here on, now, in chapter six on, the land began to open the seals.

And if you open the scroll with all the seals, you can see nineteen judgments that are going to fall on this earth, one after the other, because now he's ready to take over this universe and to restore it back to himself, to take his rightful place in this world. And we can, by the grace of God, if the Lord will help us, we'll look at that, and we can see one step at a time how the world is going to be judged and ultimately restored back to the Lamb, and even to see Israel. Beautiful to see our people Israel as a nation are going to be restored back to God and have surrounding the Messiah and being forever living with our Lord Jesus the Messiah.