Remember Jericho?
Joshua 6:8 And it came to pass,
when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the
seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the
trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
Verses 7 & 8 – the Lamb, the
Lord Jesus Christ, took the book out of the right hand of God the Father, and
when He did the beasts and the 24 elders fell down before Him in the position
of worship and they had harps and golden vials of odors, which are representing
the prayers of saints. Harps were instruments used in the temple to praise God
and prophecy could be sung to the accompaniment of a harp.
Psalm 33:2 Praise the LORD with
harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalm 43:4 Then will I go unto
the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise
thee, O God my God.
Psalm 49:4 I will incline mine
ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
The believer’s prayer is a
sacrifice, an offering.
Psalm 50:23 Whoso offereth
praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I
shew the salvation of God.
Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set
forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening
sacrifice.
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore
let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of
our lips giving thanks to his name.
Saints are the sanctified ones,
set apart by God, the believers who have followed and will follow Christ in
glory.
Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said,
The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from
mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Verse 9 – The elders and the
beasts sing, unlike the angels at Christ’s birth in Luke 2:13,14 who did not
sing but did say, they sing the prayers of saints, a new song praising Christ
for being worthy to open the book and the seals. This verse shows the universal
aspect of salvation. People from every race, language, ethnic group, kingdom,
and part of the earth have been saved.
Note again that it is by God’s
blood we have been redeemed. Remember;
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore
unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made
you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
blood.
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus
also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without
the gate.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and
the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us
from our sins in his own blood,
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