Revelation 5:1-14, Worship the Lamb

A dystopia is an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering and injustice. The beginning part of Revelation 5 has John weeping, because no one in heaven or earth is able to open the scroll. It’s a picture of what the world would be like without God’s redemptive plan. Do we marvel in our own part of this suffering, in our own sense of sin apart from a mediator? We can thank God that we do have a mediator who is the lion of Judah and the root of Jesse, the lamb who was slain.