The Book/Scroll (Biblion) is a (v.1)
‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me. And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. – Leviticus 25:23-25 (NKJV)
And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Behold, Hanamel …will come to you, saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”‘ Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. So I bought the field …And I signed the deed and sealed it – Jeremiah 32:6-12 (NKJV)
Homework: Book of Ruth
(vv.3-4)
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. – Revelation 5:3-4 (KJV)
It needed to be a (Kinsman-Redeemer)
(v.6)
Two Titles:
He came first (First Coming) as a
At His Second Coming He comes as a
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… – Revelation 5:6 (KJV)
Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men; – Isaiah 52:14 (NKJV)
Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” Yet none of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?” – knowing that it was the Lord. – John 21:12 (NKJV)
The Transfer of the Title Deed (v.7)
Currently: We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
– 1 John 5:19 (NASB)
Currently: …In putting everything under Him, God left nothing that is not subject to Him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to Him. – Hebrews 2:8
Who Are the Elders? (vv.8-10)
…they sing a new song, saying, ‘Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and didst make us (autos) to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.’
– Revelation 5:9-10 (YLT)
In Heaven they sing about (v.9)
To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, – Revelation 1:5 (NASB)