Weep No More, For the Scroll Will be Opened!

In Revelation 5, the apostle John is the last standing apostle.  All of the others – his closest friends -have been martyred.  John himself was imprisoned in the maximum-security island prison of Patmos (the Alcatraz of the Roman world).   It is here that he is ushered into a vision of heaven – the very throne room of God. But it’s not necessarily a celebrative time.