Worthy Is the Lamb: Every Knee, Crown: How Book of Revelation Worships Jesus

Ask most readers what the Book of Revelation is about, and they will answer with the language of catastrophe. But Revelation is, before it is anything else, a book of worship. It contains more hymns, more doxologies, and more scenes of adoration than any other book in the Bible. Its throne room never falls silent, its judgments resolve in song, and its climax is not a battle but a wedding feast.At the center of all its worship stands a Lamb - slain, yet standing - worthy to receive all power and glory. In Worthy Is the Lamb, Rev. Dr. Billy J. Hill reads Revelation as the church's book of worship and builds from its own hymns a rich Christology of the Lamb who is worthy. Following the worship in the text's own order - every doxology, every crown cast down, every Hallelujah, every knee that bows - this volume handles the Greek with care, listens for the way a worshiping people has heard and joined the song, and calls the reader into the adoration heaven has never ceased to offer.Written for the academy, the pulpit, and the pew, and a companion to The Lamb Wins, this book holds what Revelation holds at its fifth chapter: the Lion who is the slain Lamb - who conquers, and who is worthy."Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!" - Revelation 5:12