THE ETERNAL SACRIFICE OF CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION

One of the Angels showed Heaven to St. John the Evangelist wherein the apostle saw The Lamb of God standing as if slain yet victorious in Battle.

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Ross Earl HoffmanMay 28, 2010 at 2:04pm

Subject: Reply on Typology!!!!!

I just love my Warrior sister Margie...if any of you sisters out there, want a great Catholic Sister who is not afraid...this is her...here is her great reply, and I have another brother waiting on my wall right now, asking me, what is Typology!!!! I love it....thanks, Margie

Margie Prox SindelarMay 27, 2010 at 10:36pm

Re: Typology 101!!!!!

From the book: A Biblical Defense of Catholicism

Some verses in Revelation state that the "prayers of the saints" are being offered at the altar in the form of incense (8:3-4; cf. 5:8-9). But the climactic scene of this entire glorious portrayal of Heaven occurs in Revelation 5:1-7. Verse 6 describes "a Lamb standing as though it had been slain." Since the Lamb (Jesus, of course) is revealed as sitting in the midst of God's throne (5:6; 7:17; 22:1,3; cf. Matt. 19:28; 25:31; Heb. 1:8), which is in front of the golden altar (Rev. 8:3), then it appears that the presentation of Christ to the Father as a sacrifice is an ongoing (from God's perspective, timeless) occurrence, precisely as in Catholic teaching. Thus the Mass is no more than what occurs in Heaven, according to the clear revealed word of Scripture. When Hebrews speaks of a sacrifice made once (Heb. 7:27), this is from a purely human, historical perspective (which Catholicism acknowledges in holding that the Mass is a "re-presentation" of the one Sacrifice at Calvary). However, there is a transcendent aspect of the Sacrifice as well.

Jesus is referred to as the Lamb twenty-eight times throughout Revelation (compared with four times in the rest of the New Testament: John 1:29,36; Acts 8:32; 1 Peter 1:19). Why, in Revelation (of all places), if the Crucifixion is a past event, and the Christian's emphasis ought to be on the resurrected, glorious, kingly Jesus, as is stressed in Protestantism (as evidenced by a widespread disdain for, crucifixes)? Obviously, the heavenly emphasis is on Jesus' Sacrifice, which is communicated by God to John as present and "now" (Rev. 5:6; cf. Heb. 7:24), and please go to the Lion's Den, and post this...for good....