Revelation 5, Part 2
In the first part of Revelation 5, the seven seals on the scroll that separates intellectual knowledge from intuition-born wisdom were revealed. The expectation has been established that only one who is qualified can open the scroll. When the scroll is opened, the laws of creation and the knowledge of how to fulfill those laws will be revealed to the disciple.
5:3
And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,
There is an immediacy to Revelation, it is happening to John. While John had previously achieved freedom from the law, in Revelation he is detailing what happens to the majority of Christ’s followers. The process of being introduced to God then sent back for greater purification, likely happened earlier in part or in whole within John’s own spiritual life.
At this moment, the disciple has just been rejected from God’s presence and now joins with the angel in asking who is able to open the wisdom required to love God. Heaven is filled with all sorts of spirits, not only angels but also those souls who retain some limitations of creation. None of these easily seen souls in heaven and no average teachers found physically present on earth are able to open and read the scroll.
