Revelation 5:1-5, 11-14

God has revealed through the prophecies in His scriptures that He knows that which is future. John was shown “things which must be hereafter” beginning with Revelation 4:1.

The things which are recorded in Revelation 5 occur after the dispensation of the church age has passed (See Revelation 2 and 3). The redeemed (see verse 9) fixes the timing of the scene before us to be after Jesus has redeemed sinners out…