What Happens Next? Revelation 5, Jesus Is Worthy

Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

  • “In the right hand” – a position of prestige, importance, or honor.
  • “right hand of him” – God, for the first time in Revelation is described in human-like terms.
  • Scholars have debated the nature of this unnamed scroll, but this most likely a scroll of judgment when you look at it’s placement within the context of Revelation. This scroll was probably originally mentioned in Ezekiel 2.9-10

And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

 

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Mark 10:17-27 – The Question of Who Can Be Saved (11/19/95)

A Sermon (#546) Preached By William “Bill” Touchton

Edited By Michael D. Lawson

If you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book of Mark 10.17…

As you study the Bible, you will find the most abstruse, the most profound and thought provoking questions ever  asked. And in one sense these questions are inescapable. They must be answered.

Several of these questions are found in the book of Matthew, for instance, in Matthew 16, Jesus posed this question to his disciples. He asked, “Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?” You say, who cares what they think. There are many ways to answer that question.

Listen, he asked that question to lead into the next question. Question number 2, “Whom say ye that I am?” You see, he made it personal. Who is Jesus Christ according to YOU? That is inescapable. You will answer that question and your response could mean the difference between Heaven and Hell.

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