BIG IDEA: Jesus is God’s Deliverer and Judge who is making the world right.
Revelation contains 3 cycles of redemptive visions: One where Jesus removes 7 seals from God’s last will and testament, another with 7 angels blasting 7 trumpets, and one other with 7 angels pouring out 7 bowls full of plagues which John wrote about last. Of course, they aren’t consecutive history, but they do reveal how history repeats itself.
Each cycle proves that He actively addresses whatever ruins creation (e.g., the judgments came at His
directive) AND He allows ample time for people to repent of our ruining (illustrated by interludes depicting the cross; cf. 2 Peter 3:9.
This song echoes the song of Moses and several Psalms from Israel’s hymnbook like Psalm 2, which we’ve noted John alluding to in this segment which started in Revelation 11.
This new song of Moses and of the Lamb exemplifies how all 66 books of the Bible are a blueprint of God’s plan to redeem, sustain, and deliver people who experience oppression and injustice in a world where Satan (the dragon) uses compelling, beastly empires to seduce people from having hope in God. Until then, our worship must be rooted in God’s story to maintain our faith in today’s BIG IDEA: Jesus is God’s Deliverer and Judge who is making the world right.
