Revelation

THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN
has the possibility of fall and God the Love will redeem his children even if it means that he himself has to
taste death. We certainly know that at least one group of angels fell as they left their abode to take wives
from among the human race. So it can be easily assumed that even these creatures might have exercised
their right to be free and experienced the love of God. They can very well join the humans in the new song
of redemption. However the song now seem to pertain only to the earth.
your redeemed us
ἠγόρασας [ēgorasas] : “Literally buy, purchase, do business in the marketplace (Mat. 13.44); figuratively,
as being no longer controlled by sin set free; from the analogy of buying a slave’s freedom for a price paid
by a benefactor redeem (1Cor. 6:20).”
Redemption involves a purchase and those who are purchased are no longer their own (1Cor. 6:20; 7:23;
2Pe. 2:1). The purchased price for those redeemed was not made with corruptible things like silver and gold
(1Pe. 1:18), but by the life of the Son of Man Who gave “His life a ransom for many” (Mat. 20:28).
The redemption in view is both soteriological (individual souls are reconciled to God) and eschatological
(the original creation will be restored at the end of the ages).Redemption has its roots and foundations in
the past, but its true realization lies in the future, when finally all creation is made new. However this
vision is limited to the earth’s redemption and certainly looks forward to the ultimate redemption of the
cosmos which form part of God’s full body.
by your blood
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. The redeemed of this age are “the church of
God which He purchased with His own blood” (Acts Acts 20:28). (Col. Col. 1:14). (1Pe. 1Pe. 1:19).
Isolating this verse and extrapolating it to a substitution theology is very dangerous. It is not the substituted
blood that saves. If a simple substitution was sufficient the high priest could have just sacrificed a willing
human. Such substitution will not satisfy human law, leave alone God’s justice. It is the blood of the
sinner that pays the price. Unless Jesus became a man and formed part of the blood of human race, the
price of sin of mankind cannot be paid for. This simply is the mystery of incarnation. Even in the Mosaic
Law, the sinner has to identify himself, or the Priest will have to identify the Jewish Nation as such by
laying hands on the sacrifice before it was sacrificed. Jesus knowing fully that no man can pay this full
price became part of the body without loosing the fullness of the being.
(Rev 5:11) And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living
creatures and the elders. And the number of them was myriads and myriads, and thousands of
thousands,
(Rev 5:12) saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches
and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.
The lamb was worthy to receive the scroll and open its seals because
• you were killed. And
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