The Anxiety of God

Can you imagine being the God of the Universe and knowing you can only save humanity from sin’s blight if your plans go right? Revelation 5 reveals the moment.

God sat on His throne, holding a scroll with the deed for the Earth written inside. Long ago, God had given it to Adam and Eve when He created Earth as their home. “Love it and care for it!” God has said as he deeded Earth’s stewardship to Adam. But, in the very next chapter of Earth’s story, Adam chose to give the deed to Satan on a whimsical hope for personal greatness. How the scroll returned, unopened to God’s hand, we are not told. But, opening it is the one thing God cannot do.

The only way to open the scroll and return ownership of Earth to its Creator is to fulfil the requirements written on the outside of the scroll underneath the seven wax seals keeping it closed. The 24 elders and myriad of angels surrounding God cannot help. They are not Worthy. Only one is worthy. The Lion who became a Lamb to save us all!

It’s a prophecy, not reality. There is no scroll. But, in the way of prophecy and parable, the underlying story is true.

Jesus, the Lion of Judah, became the perfect lamb who took away the sins of the world. By his death on the cross, the gates of the Kingdom of God swung open wide!