In Revelation 4, John sees God seated in all of His glory in the throne room of heaven. The four living creatures never stop, day or night, proclaiming His holiness, and the elders never stop falling before His feet to declare His worth (Rev. 4:8–11). Daniel also saw the Lord lifted up on His throne in a vision. He saw that “a thousand thousands ministered to Him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him” (Dan. 7:10). When the ones before God’s throne interact with and peer into His holiness, when waves of revelation strike their eyes concerning His nature, ways, and name, they must respond with worship.
After John sees the Father being exalted on the throne, he begins to weep, because no one has been found worthy to approach the Father and take the scroll from His hand (Rev. 5:4). Then He sees the Lamb, standing in the midst of the assembly. Jesus “came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne” (Rev. 5:7). The Lamb comes forth! Jesus, the God-man, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, conquers! He alone is worthy. He goes right into the midst of the consuming glory of God the Father in all of His unapproachable light, and takes the scroll from His hand.
In Revelation 5:9, the hosts of heaven begin to sing a new song to the Lamb. The ones who never cease saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty” about the Father, now fall before the Lamb and sing a new song about the worth of Christ. It a is a song representing the prayers of the saints on the earth, who cry, “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation” (Rev. 5:9). God, in His infinite wisdom, sent the very radiance of His glory, the express image of Himself in Jesus, to be born of a virgin, to display the love and power of the Father, to be crucified, to rise from the dead, to ascend into heaven, to rule at the right hand of the Majesty, and to be admired and loved for all eternity by those redeemed with His own blood (Col. 1:13–18; Phil. 2:5–11; Heb. 1).
Heaven reveals that God desires continual worship and prayer around His throne. Heaven pours forth both unceasing prayer and unceasing adoration in response to the unending enjoyment of God the Father and His Son (Rev. 4–5). The truth of who God is in His nature is to be searched out, peered into, and then adored on earth as it is in heaven.
