We do not find the believer's calling or relationship with the Father spoken of in the Revelation. We only have the Father referred to five times: twice as "His Father" and three times as "My Father," and always referring to God as the Father of the Lord Jesus. In the Revelation we see God preparing the earth for His Son, the rightful Heir, under whose feet all enemies will be put.
With this book the Scriptures are closed, so that for any man now to add to God's Word is to expose himself to the plagues written in this book. It is addressed by the Lord to the assemblies, and concludes with the thrice-repeated assurance of His coming quickly.
In looking through this blessed book, however hastily, we cannot fail to notice how often Christ is brought before us as the Lamb. Its importance is obvious, for the believer proves in his experience that truth itself, apart from the truth, is rather calculated to amuse the intellect than to warm the heart. It also shows us that God's way of teaching prophecy is not so much by the arrangement of events in chronological order, as it is in viewing everything in relation to Christ Himself.
In the Revelation, the Lamb is the center around which all else is clustered, the foundation on which everything lasting is built, the nail on which all hangs, the object to which all points, and the spring from which all blessing proceeds. The Lamb is the light, the glory, the life, the Lord of heaven and earth, from whose face all defilement must flee away, and in whose presence fullness of joy is known. Hence, we cannot go far in the study of the Revelation without seeing the Lamb, like direction-posts along the road, to remind us that He who did by Himself purge our sins is now highly exalted, and that to Him every knee must bow and every tongue confess.
If the saying of another be true, that then this one feature of this inspired Book should be enough to engage our hearts, and warrant the largest expectations of blessing. And if the frequent contemplation of the precious blood of Christ keeps down the weeds of our flesh, nourishes the inner man and is the wine that cheers both God and man, we may be assured of gathering much profit from reading this book frequently and prayerfully. In this book the Lamb as it had been slain is prominently set forth, and we are so often reminded of the sufferings of Christ and the judgments and glories which follow.
H. Snell
It is Christ’s work which gives peace to the conscience;
But it is subdued will, having none of our own,
Which in great and in little things makes us
Peaceful in heart
In going through a world of trial.