One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.” I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
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Fulfilled hereGenesis 49:9-10
Judah is a lion's cub: Jacob's blessing finds its Lion, and he has overcome.
“Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.”
In contrast toJohn 1:29
The Lion the elder announces appears as a Lamb: John had already met Him as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
“The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
In parallel withIsaiah 53:7
The throne's victory belongs to the victim: a lamb led to the slaughter, who didn't open his mouth.
“He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.”