Some specific contrasts — Chapter 05
*Revelation 5:5 makes it clear that only an ancestor of David can open the mentioned scroll and its seven seals, and yet Jesus himself made it quite clear in the Gospels that he was not the Davidian Messiah at all. (see Matthew 16:20, 22:18, 22:41-45, 24:1-2, 24:23-27, 26:63-64, Mark 1:25, 1:38, 3:12, 8:27-30, 9:9, 10:17-18, 10:31,10:39-40, 12:14-17, 12:35-37, 14:3-8, Luke 4:5-8, 4:35, 4:41, 8:39, 9:18-21, 11:28, 17:14-15, 18:18-19, 19:20-26,19:41-44, 22:70, 23:35, John 5:41+44, 6:15, 6:35+6:45, 7:18, 8:50, 8:54, 12:3-7, 12:44-45, 12:49 & John 13:13)
*Revelation 5:7-8 shows Jesus taking down a “scroll of doom”, while the Gospels show Jesus opening and reading from a scroll of liberation (see Luke 4:18, where Jesus publicly reads from the scroll of Isaiah, verses 58:6 & 61:1-2) …
*Revelation 5:12-13 (and also Revelation 19:16) has Jesus the “Lamb” receiving power & glory from “myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands”, while Jesus in the Gospels repeatedly rejected all offers of power & glory (see Matthew 4:1-10 – juxtaposed with Daniel 7:13-14, John 6:15, Matthew 10:18 et al) …
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