"Who Is Worthy to Open the Scroll?" -Conclusion of The Worthy One

Conclusion of The Worthy One

Jesus preeminently is the one who, as a perfect human, served Jehovah in integrity and under excruciating trials. He supplied the complete answer to Satan's challenge.  (Proverbs 27:11) Thus, he could say as he did on the night before his sacrificial death,  "I have conquered the world."   (John 16:33)  For this reason, Jehovah entrusted the resurrected Jesus with "all authority . . .in heaven and on the earth."  He alone of all servants of God is qualified to receive the scroll, with a view to making known its momentous message.  -Matthew 28:18.

It is appropriate, indeed, that Jesus should open the scroll.  Since 1914 he has been enthroned as King of God's Messianic Kingdom, and that scroll reveals so much concerning the Kingdom and what it will accomplish.  Jesus faithfully bore witness to Kingdom truth while he was here on earth.  (John 18:36, 37)  He taught his followers to pray for the coming of the Kingdom.  (Matthew 6:9, 10)  He initiated the preaching of the good news of the Kingdom at the beginning of the  Christian era and prophesied the culmination of that preaching work during the time of the end.  (Matthew 4:23; Mark 13:10)  It is likewise  appropriate that one of the 24 elders should reveal to John that Jesus is the one to open the seals.. Why? Because these elders sit on thrones and wear crowns, being joint heirs with Christ in his Kingdom. -Romans 8L17; Revelation 4:4.

Next time: "Who Is Worth to Open the Scroll?" -The Lamb That Was Slaughtered

From the Book of Revelation