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The Opening of the Scroll - 2005/03/09 09:20
The Opening of the Scroll - Rev 5.
The Lamb, Jesus, took the scroll from Gods hand and the living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before Jesus and sang "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals!" At that moment millions upon millions of Angels cried out in chorus to the Lamb: "You are worthy, to recieve the power and the riches and the wisdom and the strength and the honor, glory and blessing!" The noise shook heaven. And on the earth all and everyone echoed the cry of the angels and so praised and gave glory to Jesus and to God. The 24 elder cried "Amen" and fell down in worship. Never had the worlds of men and angels witnesses such a momentous event.
And in heaven and on the earth everyone fell immediately to their knees and bowed their heads in honor of Jesus. Well, almost everyone....
God (looking out over an almost endless sea of people on their knees with bowed heads) said- "Gabriel, come here a moment will you."
Gabriel - "Yes, Father"
God - "What’s going on at the back there? I see some people still standing"
Gabriel, squinting, peering over many millions of bowed heads - "Ahh. Yes"
God - "Ah? Who are they, and why aren't they worshipping?"
Gabriel - "Yes....I think that's the Jehovah's Witnesses Father"
God - "Who?"
Gabriel - "The Jehovah's Witnesses, they believe they are the only true religion."
(Hearing this the nearest rows of angels began to smirk and snigger, struggling not to laugh)
God - "Oh, another one. Are they a Jewish sect or something?"
Gabriel, peering at a clipboard - "Well, not exactly, it says here they are 'Christian'?"
God - "Oh. But didn’t I tell the Christians to be witnesses of Jesus? Didn't I command them to call themselves 'Christians'? I did say that didn't I?
Gabriel, flipping a few pages back on his clipboard - "Er......yes...here we are Acts 11:26, it says, 'By divine providence called Christians'
God - "I thought so. Well what happened?"
Gabriel, shuffling uneasily - "Erm....well their leader said....."
God, eybrows raised - "Leader???
Gabriel, rolling his eyes - "I know....well Joe Rutherford said..."
God "Who?"
Gabriel - "Well....he said they should be called 'Jehovah’s Witnesses'"
God - "Oh did he!"
Gabriel - Well, yes. He did."
God - "And they obeyed him?"
Gabriel, looking uncomfortable "Oh...pretty much without question...and that’s not the half of it, Father."
God - "OK, well, we don’t have time for this now we have to get on and open these seals. And the prophesey has to be fulfilled, so they have to worship. I mean all the other Christians are worshipping. What's their problem?"
Gabriel - "Hang on a moment. I'll just go and see"
Gabriel suddenly materialized as a bearded man in jeans and a t-shirt and made his way through the worshipping crowds and disappeared into the sea of people.
After a few moments he reappeared next to God holding a magazine.
God "Well? They're still standing Gabriel."
Gabriel, looking confused - "I know. I asked them why they weren't worshipping and they gave me a magazine called the Watchtower, this one is called "Should you worship Jesus?"
God - "And what does it say?"
Gabriel, flicking through the magazine - "Its says...er....No you shouldn't. And they said, they definitely aren't going to get down on their knees before Jesus because that's worship, and they said they stopped worshipping Jesus in the 1940s and aren't about to start again now. They also said I could join them if I lost the beard and started wearing a suit. Oh, and they've started telling the other Christians around them that you are going to kill them because they have worshipped"
God - "But did you...?"
Gabriel - "Yes I showed them Revelation 5 and Philippians 2:9-11 etc etc. It didn’t make any difference.
God groaned and slowly shook his head, - "OK. Jesus, can you come here a moment. Sorry to halt the proceedings but we have a bit of a problem here..."
Jesus - "I heard"
God - "Could you appear to these Jehovah's Witnesses and tell them to get with the program please. They say they're Christians so they should listen to you"
Jesus immediately disappeared in a flash of light. Then reappeared moments later.
Jesus "You're gonna laugh when you hear this"
God - "I doubt it. Tell me anyway."
Jesus - "Well I appeared to them...quite a few of them actually....and most of them ran away screaming with their hands over their ears and they refused to answer me back!"
God - " No! Why, for goodness sake??"
Jesus - "Well that’s the funny part. They said that Jesus doesn’t appear that way today, so it must be Satan, and they said that in any case, even if I was Jesus they weren't allowed to talk to me....cos 'talking to Jesus is worship'...Oh and they gave me this magazine....the main article is "Should you talk to Jesus?". The answer is 'no' apparently."
God - "And what about the others, the few who didn’t run off screaming about demons? Did any of them believe you?"
Jesus, looking sad, but proud - "A handful did, yes. They are worshipping now.
God - "Good"
Jesus - "They were 'disfellowshipped" immediately".
God - "This is ridiculous! We have prophecies to fulfill here! We don’t have time for this.”
Another angel meekly approached the throne and said - "I might know how to get them to worship"
God - "Really?"
Angel - "Hmm. it's a bit unethical though."
God, frowning - "How unethical?"
Angel, looking sheepish - "Well.... a bit. But no more than when you had me deceive the false prophets."
God - "Well, OK. At this point, I'm willing to give it a go! Go to it!"
Immediately the angel materialized as a man in a suit and made his way through the crowds of millions to the Witnesses, standing far at the back.
God, Gabriel and Jesus peered into the distance watching the relatively tiny group of standing Witnesses among a sea of kneeling worshippers. They waited. Suddenly with a rumble, the entire group of Witnesses fell onto their faces, fast as lightening, like a forest of felled trees.
The Angel reappeared at the throne, looking pleased with himself, but a little embarrassed - "Well, it worked. We can get this show on the road!"
God "I see. What did you say?"
Angel - "I said "The Society says, worship Jesus."
Post edited by: Phi, at: 2005/03/09 10:15
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