Slavery to Sabbath in Revelation 5-11
I just noticed that the passage concerning the slain Lamb (Rev. 5) and the passage concerning the victory of the church (in 9-11) correspond chiastically.
The first is the Adam conquering Herod’s Egypt and moving out through a bloody door (Passover/Circumcision)
SCROLL: Word – Most Holy Place – Garden
……LAMB: Sacrament – Holy Place – Land
…………NATIONS: Government – Courts – World
These cover the three territories corrupted by Adam, Cain and the ‘sons of God’. Between this ‘first generation’ (head) and the ‘next generation’ (body), there is a battle in the first century ‘wilderness’.
………………WILDERNESS BATTLE: Gospel as Pentecost Law
Later, there is the redeemed Eve conquering Herod’s Jericho and crossing the river into a heavenly country over the corpse (Atonement/Baptism)
…………SUNRISE ARMY of 200 million Jew/Gentile saints:
…………Government – Courts - World……CHRIST the true brother/High Priest with the little scroll:
……Sacrament – Holy Place - Land (and Sea)TWO WITNESSES, saints as the Ark cherubim: Word – Most Holy Place - Garden
Not only does this pattern follow the seven feasts of Leviticus 23 (if we include the central wilderness), each of these seven points contains the same sevenfold structure within itself. It is like Zechariah’s Lampstand with 49 lights. And this is just another overlay on the already manifold structures in Revelation. There really is no bottom to this book.
