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The Revelation of Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of the Father, is One with the Father and with the sevenfold Holy Spirit "sent forth into all the earth." Thus we see here a vision of the Triune God-"him that sat on the throne" (verses 1, 7), "in the\ midst of the throne ... a Lamb as it had been slain" (verse 6), identified with the Holy Spirit of God (verse 6). But let us look again at the three highly significant names: "The Lion of the tribe of Judah," "the Root of David," "a Lamb as it had been slain." There are many beautiful names of our Lord, each given to teach us some phase of His Person and work. Through these divine titles our finite minds can grasp, a little here and a little there, something of the infinite Being whom we see now by faith, but whom having not seen with our physical eyes, yet we love because He first loved us. "The Lion of the tribe of Judah" speaks to us of the kingly character of our Lord. This official title takes us back to the familiar prophecy recorded in Gen. 49:8-10. Jacob was giving his last blessing upon his sons, looking forward to the then future history of the tribes of Israel; and to Judah he said, among other things: "Judah is a lion's whelp ... The sceptre shall not depart from Judah ... until Shiloh (the Lord Jesus) come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." We need turn only to the New Testament genealogy of Christ, as recorded by Matthew and Luke, to see that "our Lord sprang out of Juda" (Heb. 7:14). Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews, is the only rightful "Heir of all things," the only One who is "worthy" to rule and reign over the earth which He created and which He redeemed from the curse! But again John is reminded of yet another Old Testament prophecy, that Israel's King was to come through the house of David. Among other passages, we turn to II Sam. 7:12-16 and to Isa. 11 :1, where we read the same prophecy, that there was to come forth "a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch ... out of his roots"-none other than "the Root of David," whose glorious kingdom is described in the verses which follow in Isa. 11 :2-9. And this Son of David, of the kingly line, is "the Lamb ... slain"! Every born-again soul knows that a lamb brings to mind a picture of sacrifice. This earth had to be redeemed and when John saw the One "worthy," he saw "a Lamb as
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