John Weeps Over No One Found Revelation 5:4

John the apostle saw “four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that lives for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne saying, You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.” John also, “saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book

written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals”, and he “saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.” In chapter five and verse four of Revelation John shared how he, “wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, read or look” upon “the book” where we read:

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book,

neither to look thereon.

The verse reads, “And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, ...” John began with the words, “and I wept much” which means “and John mourned, lamented and bewailed greatly and sorely”, “because”which means “since” “no man” which refers to “not one person whether male or female” “was found worthy” or “was examined as, scrutinized as, learned, discovered and present as having weight or value, befitting, congruous and of merit” “to open” which means “unfasten or unloose” “and to read” or “and to distinguish between, recognize or know accurately to acknowledge” “the book” which refers to “the written document or scroll”. John's reaction to no one being “found worthy” to “open” or “read” the “scroll in God's right hand” was to “sob convulsively”.

The verse goes on to say, “... neither to look thereon.” John continued with the words, “neither” which means “not even to” “to look” which means “to discern, perceive, discover or observe” “therein” or “within the scroll”. John did not see one person who was able to “discern, perceive or observe” what was in the “scroll in God's right hand”.

When we consider John's words in this verse, we begin to understand the importance of this “scroll” in God's right hand. Many believe this “book”, or written document, was the title deed to the earth. Two copies of property “deeds” were printed by hand in those days. At the time of the sale of a property, one copy of the “deed” would be given to the new owner, and the other copy would be “sealed” and put within an enclosed jar or vase. If anyone doubted who authentic owner of the property was, the jar or vase was broken, the second copy of the document or “deed” was retrieved and the opened “seals” would declare the rightful owner. This “scroll” in God's right hand is thought to be the “title deed” to the earth of which Jesus became the rightful owner after His death on the cross and subsequent resurrection. John wept because at this point in heaven, no one was found “worthy” to “open, read or look upon” this “scroll”, however, the story does not end here, and we shall discover that Jesus is indeed “worthy”.

Next time John is instructed to, “weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah...has prevailed to open the book”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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