Christ Fulfills the Legal Credentials.

We know that the Father gave Christ the authority to execute the judgments. However to do this Christ needed to fulfil the legal requirements to be ruler over the kings of the earth. Israel was promised that they would be the ruling nation over the other nations of the world.

Thus Christ had to come from Israel and from the ruling house of David. Christ fulfilled these requirements and then prevailed against the enemy. He is worthy to open the judgment scroll.

                                            `Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,

                                                  the Root of David, has prevailed

                                                           to open the scroll...`

                                                                                         (Rev. 5: 5)

How then did Christ prevail against the enemy? Like the Apostle Peter we may think, `with arms & force.` Not by letting others kill Him, dying a cruel death. But this is exactly how Christ defeated the foe.

Christ`s sinless, perfect life, lived to do the Father`s will, was priceless. There is none other or will be in the whole universe and heavens beyond, that is like Him. Christ`s death overpaid the terrible debt of mankind and made the way for restoration of God`s purposes, His Covenant, through Jesus Christ.

The imagery of this sacrificial death is of a Lamb. The `7 horns, indicate complete authority, and the `7 eyes, ` depict the full anointing of the Holy Spirit.

                                         `Behold,...a Lamb as though it had been slain,

                            having 7 horns and 7 eyes, which are the 7 (fold) Spirits of God...`

                                                                                                                (Rev. 5: 6)

The Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, the heir of creation and of all things, steps forward and  receives the scroll, the judgment scroll, (symbolically) out of the Father`s hand.

                               `And He came and took the scroll out of the right hand

                                                of Him who sat on the throne.`

                                                                                         (Rev. 5: 7)

God the Father prophesied of this event saying,

                     `I will declare the decree;

                                            The Lord said to Me,  You are My Son,.....

                         Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations for Your inheritance,

                                          the ends of the earth for Your possession.`

                                                                                                 (Ps. 2: 7 & 8)