Father Mike Schmitz

So you crack the next one and the message is for someone else who could read your message and their message.

But the third message isn't for you.

So the third person cracked that seal and now the third person can read the first and second person's message, no problem, but there's their third message.

That makes sense?

So it's kind of like this unrolling of a scroll.

And I thought that's helpful for me visually because what we see here is we see first the lament.

The lament is there's no one worthy to open the scroll and break open its seals.

No one can do this.

Who is going to do this?

John himself begins to weep.

And so one of the elders says, weep not.

Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has conquered so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals and a seal, a lamb standing as though it had been slain with seven horns and seven eyes.

Numbers of the covenant, possibly?

Uh-huh.

The seven horns and seven eyes symbolize Christ's full power and full knowledge.

Seven horns, horns are a symbol of power and eyes, a symbol of knowledge.

So seven and seven, right?

That number of covenant, full power, full knowledge, Jesus Christ himself, the one who is living forever.

And what can happen?

He can open the scroll.