What Does Revelation 7:10 Mean?
And they cry out with a loud voice, saying, Deliverance to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.THE KEY
The Greek word for salvation belongs to the same family as “deliverer,” joining deliverance to the God and Lamb who receive its praise.
THE MEANING
The cry credits deliverance to God enthroned and the Lamb. For the reader now, rescue remains joined to the ones who receive its praise.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that deliverance is finally a self-made achievement: the cry credits it to God and the Lamb.
THE ROOT
σωτηρία
sōtēria
GROWS FROM
σῴζω (sōzō), the lexical family behind σωτηρία
To deliver, rescue, preserve, or bring safely through.
The noun σωτηρία (sōtēria, deliverance) belongs to the same word family as σῴζω (sōzō, deliver) and σωτήρ (sōtēr, deliverer). The cry keeps deliverance joined to the deliverer, crediting God and the Lamb with the rescue it celebrates.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: To deliver, rescue, or preserve.
σῴζω
The verb shows the living action held inside the noun for deliverance.
sōtēr: One who delivers or rescues.
σωτήρ
This branch joins deliverance to the deliverer, the connection heard in the cry to God and the Lamb.
sōtērion: Deliverance or saving help.
σωτήριον
This related form keeps rescue concrete as help that reaches someone.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is credited to God, and those who receive it name its source in praise.
Deliverance belongs to the LORD; your blessing is upon your people. Selah.But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of open-handed thanks; what I have vowed, I will make whole. Deliverance belongs to the LORD.And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, "Now has come the deliverance, and the strength, and the governance of our God, and the authority of his Anointed One. For the one who speaks against our brothers is thrown down, he who speaks against them before our God day and night."THE THREAD
And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, "Now has come the deliverance, and the strength, and the governance of our God, and the authority of his Anointed One. For the one who speaks against our brothers is thrown down, he who speaks against them before our God day and night."This verse repeats the Greek noun σωτηρία (sōtēria, deliverance) and joins it with God’s kingdom and power. What Revelation 7:10 credits to God and the Lamb is also announced as having come.
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