Not even God the Father and the rest of heaven will get over it
Jim Elliff on The Glory of the Lamb:
The prospect of the cross traverses the shadow-lands of the Old Testament, to the reality in the Gospels, and on to redemption’s vivifying power in Acts and in the epistles. But in Revelation [4-5] we see the most dazzling depiction of all, as the heavenly court glories in the lamb slain, and the inhabitants of heaven sing loudly about the power and glory of the cross. One is taken aback by the emphasis on the cross in the Revelation. Heaven does not “get over” the cross as if there are better things to think about.
On earth some of our more knowing brethren have said, or at least thought, “I’ve gotten the idea of the cross clearly in my thinking; so now I can ponder things of much greater theological importance.” But then they pass away with some massive tome about some theological vagary on their chest, and are ushered into heaven only to find that the angels and created beings, as well as the Father Himself, are obsessed with the very subject they left behind years ago. Heaven is not only Christocentric, it is also cruci-centric, and quite blaring about it
The prospect of the cross traverses the shadow-lands of the Old Testament, to the reality in the Gospels, and on to redemption’s vivifying power in Acts and in the epistles. But in Revelation [4-5] we see the most dazzling depiction of all, as the heavenly court glories in the lamb slain, and the inhabitants of heaven sing loudly about the power and glory of the cross. One is taken aback by the emphasis on the cross in the Revelation. Heaven does not “get over” the cross as if there are better things to think about.
On earth some of our more knowing brethren have said, or at least thought, “I’ve gotten the idea of the cross clearly in my thinking; so now I can ponder things of much greater theological importance.” But then they pass away with some massive tome about some theological vagary on their chest, and are ushered into heaven only to find that the angels and created beings, as well as the Father Himself, are obsessed with the very subject they left behind years ago. Heaven is not only Christocentric, it is also cruci-centric, and quite blaring about it
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