Imagine what heaven's choir must sound like? Imagine a gathering of the greatest composers in all of history continuing their writing, but now they are composing for the greatest choir ever assembled. Revelation 5:11-14  11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12In a loud voice they sang:    "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength    and honor and glory and praise!" 13Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:    "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb    be praise and honor and glory and power,          for ever and ever!" 14The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped. (New International Version) I want you to get a feel for this scene in Revelation. Heaven's choir of angels is now assembled myriads and myriads of angels is the way one translation puts it. A myriad is sometimes counted as ten thousand; so we could say ten thousands of angels. Myriad can also mean innumerable a number too great to count. A 100-voice choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus thrills you and me. Can you imagine ten thousands of ten thousands of voices innumerable voices singing; Revelation 5:9 9And they sang a new song with these words:    “You are worthy to take the scroll       and break its seals and open it.    For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God       from every tribe and language and people and nation. (New Living Translation) This heavenly choir is assembled around the great throne of God. Four living creatures are before the throne, and in front of them are the twenty-four elders and also a Lamb, and they are bowing before the Lamb and ; 12In a loud voice they sang:    "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength    and honor and glory and praise!" Revelation 5:12 (New International Version) In Revelation 5:1-5, John is told that the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the scroll sealed with seven seals. Revelation 5:1-6 1Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" 3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. 4I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. 5Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." But as John looks for a lion, instead he sees a lamb. 6Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. (New International Version) This must have been a grotesque sight, for the lamb appears to have been slaughtered. "The Lamb" is Revelation's defining title for Jesus. However, this is the first time that the image of a lamb was used in the book of Revelation. It's as though this image has been reserved for its dramatic presentation precisely until this point. John's vision of the lion followed immediately by a slain lamb is one of the most paradoxical visions of Revelation . But, what was God thinking when He chose the lamb as His ideal model of sacrifice and victory over slavery and sin? The image of a lamb doesn't exactly inspire the confidence of a conquering hero. This lamb imagery is connected to the Old Testament book of Isaiah. The imagery is central to the prophecy of the suffering servant in Isaiah 53, where the future sacrifice for sin is pictured as a lamb being led to the slaughter. Jesus fulfilled this prophecy. Jesus is the Lamb of God sacrificed for the sins of the world.  Isaiah 53  1Who has believed our message        and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?  2He grew up before him like a tender shoot,        and like a root out of dry ground.        He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,        nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.  3He was despised and rejected by men,        a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.        Like one from whom men hide their faces        he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  4Surely he took up our infirmities        and carried our sorrows,        yet we considered him stricken by God,        smitten by him, and afflicted.  5But he was pierced for our transgressions,        he was crushed for our iniquities;        the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,        and by his wounds we are healed.  6We all, like sheep, have gone astray,        each of us has turned to his own way;        and the LORD has laid on him        the iniquity of us all.  7He was oppressed and afflicted,        yet he did not open his mouth;        he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,        and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,        so he did not open his mouth.  8By oppression and judgment he was taken away.        And who can speak of his descendants?        For he was cut off from the land of the living;        for the transgression of my people he was stricken.  9He was assigned a grave with the wicked,        and with the rich in his death,        though he had done no violence,        nor was any deceit in his mouth.  10Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,        and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering,        he will see his offspring and prolong his days,        and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.  11After the suffering of his soul,        he will see the light of life and be satisfied;        by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,        and he will bear their iniquities.  12Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,        and he will divide the spoils with the strong,         because he poured out his life unto death,        and was numbered with the transgressors.        For he bore the sin of many,        and made intercession for the transgressors.       (New International Version) But this Lamb was different.