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| After students have written on their ribbons, ask them to share what they wrote. (Their answers may involve things such as: injustice in the world, bullies, war, homework, divorce, hunger, AIDs, environmental concerns, money, poverty, famine.) Say: Today we are going to study a passage from the book of Revelation—a book that can be very confusing and can be interpreted in different ways. Let’s take a look at what this passage has to do with the song we sang and the lack of hope that we sometimes feel about the status of our world. EXPLORE THE BIBLE: (15–20 minutes) Hand out Bibles and ask for volunteers to read the different sections: narrator, angel, elder, creatures and 24 elders, many angels, every creature, four living creatures. Lead the students in this discussion and mini-lecture: 1 What do you think is in the scroll? This scroll is God’s complete and perfect will. It shows the course of history as it relates to God’s purposes and ultimate will for creation. 2 What is significant about seven seals on the scroll? Seven symbolizes perfection and completion; what is in the scroll is perfect and it takes someone perfect to break them open to carry it out—Jesus was that perfect person. 3 What made Jesus the right one to have and to carry out what was in the scroll? He followed God totally while on earth and portrayed a way of life for us that is completely in the will of God. Continued... |
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