In the first chapter the reader is blessed with some wonderful truths about our life ‘now’ and ‘not yet’. We are greatly encouraged that the Victory – Jesus’ victory has been won.

Revelation 5.5-6

5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain,

standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the

four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits a of God sent out into all the earth.

We have this treasure in jars of clay (2 Corinthians 4:7).

So begins this wonderful truth of God’s Revelation – a truth revealed over the whole of time from Genesis 1:1 to the end of Revelation.

A wonderful truth of Psalm 8:4 “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him.” This is quoted in Hebrews 2:6-9 about Jesus who restores man to his original sovereign dignity in man’s realm. The purposes of God in Jesus is the salvation and restoration of man – the elect (Matthew 1:21). In Hebrews 2:9 we see Jesus “a little lower than the angels”, “but now” crowned with glory and honour because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. The victory is in Jesus. He is victorious for each elect – for us! (Hebrews 2:10-15). The victory is won.

In commenting on passages, I see that it is very important to have some of the passage there for reference.