Chapter Fifteen/"Who Is Worthy to Open the Sroll?" - 'The Lamb That Was Slaughtered'

 John looks to see this "Lion that is of the tribe of Judah" But how astounding! A completely different symbolic figure appears: "And I saw standing in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a lamb as though it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which eyes mean the seven spirits of God that have been sent forth into the whole earth." - REVELATION 5:6. 

Right in the center, beside the throne, within the circles formed by the four living creature4s and the 24 elders, there is a lamb! Doubtless John quickly identifies this lamb with "Lion that is of the tribe of Judah" and "the root of David." He knows that, more then 60 years earlier, John the Baptizer introduced Jesus to onlooking Jews as "the Lamb of God that take away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29) All during his life on earth Jesus remained untainted by the world-just like an unblemished lamb-so that he could offer his blameless life as a sacrifice for mankind. - 1 CORINTHIANS 5:7; HEBREWS 7:26

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