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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "revelation-lamb-scroll",
  "era": "revelation",
  "order": 503,
  "title": "The Lamb opens the way to the scroll",
  "group": "rev-seals",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Revelation 5 · reading sequence",
    "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment."
  },
  "summary": "No one is found worthy to open the sealed scroll until John sees the Lamb who was slain, standing before the throne. Heaven praises the Lamb for redeeming people from every nation.",
  "context": "John hears about the Lion of Judah and the Root of David, then sees a slaughtered yet standing Lamb. That shift in imagery places sacrificial victory at the center of the visions that follow. The seven horns and eyes are visionary attributes; the text identifies the eyes with God’s seven spirits sent throughout the earth. The song celebrates a kingdom and priests drawn from many peoples, and worship expands to all creation. The scroll is not given a contents list that allows every detail to be independently decoded.",
  "question": "What difference does it make that the one worthy to open the scroll appears as a slain Lamb?",
  "locationNote": "Visionary setting; no geographic pin or route. The background map shows the historical recipients in western Asia Minor, not the location of this vision.",
  "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 5:1–14",
      "range": [
        66005001,
        66005014
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%205%3A1%E2%80%9314&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 11,
          "text": "Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 12,
          "text": "In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 13,
          "text": "And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 5,
          "verse": 14,
          "text": "And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        2019005,
        2019006
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "The language of kingdom and priests recalls Israel’s vocation at Sinai, now joined to the Lamb’s redemption of many peoples.",
      "reference": "Exodus 19:5–6",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2019%3A5%E2%80%936&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [],
  "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia",
  "further": [],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Revelation",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-lamb-scroll",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-lamb-scroll/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-lamb-scroll/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-lamb-scroll/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "621f145e9b3e6334"
}