The Lamb has seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God, and, as Richard Bauckham points out, Lamb and Spirit continue to track together throughout the book. The word “Lamb” appears 28 times in the book, which Bauckham rightly recognizes as a symbolic all-space-and-time number, the product of the seven of creation’s time and the four of earthly space. The Spirit is also a 28 in Revelation – the phrase “seven Spirits” is used four times (1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6).
Lamb and Spirit are together in all time and in all space. Creation was by Word and Spirit; new creation by Lamb and seven Spirits.
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