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Revelation 5:2-4

Now, here is the big question! Who can rescue the world? Who can liberate it? Who is capable of bringing the earth and humanity back to their rightful owner?
Who can take the history of the world into his own hands in order to guarantee a happy ending?

How many people, in just the 19th and 20th centuries, presented themselves as great leaders who would guide humanity towards a splendid goal, a paradise on earth?

Individuals like Karl Marx, Lenin, Napoleon, Hitler, and Mao Zedong, along with many others? Driven by right-wing, left-wing, and middle-ground ideologies with humanist ideas and ideals? By democracy and/or dictatorship? Yet, their versions of 'paradise' and all revolutions ended in bloodbaths and ruin, rivers of blood for millions of people. Look at the French Revolution, or the Communist Revolution, or the Fascist Revolution, for example.

'And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I wept much that no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it' (5:3-4) - A great disappointment follows. No one in Heaven is worthy - not the cherubim, nor the seraphim, nor the living beings, nor the twenty-four elders, nor the millions of angels themselves, nor even the seven Spirits of God, the Holy Spirit.

No one in Heaven or on Earth is worthy. Not the greatest and wisest philosopher, nor the most impressive inventors of science and technology, nor the inspired artists, nor the democratic parliaments, nor the most powerful dictators, not the most innocent child nor the best adult. No one on Earth is worthy or capable of unfolding the story. Who then is worthy? Who can 'redeem' Creation and humanity? Who will put an end to the dominion of the prince of darkness? Who will restore the plundered, polluted, and exhausted Creation?

No one? If that is the case, it is perfectly understandable that John is weeping bitterly, and that we are with him. All of Creation is groaning. It eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God. And one day that will happen. But then the Son of God must first be revealed!