stretches from the remote past to the final end is read, John tells us that the Lamb takes the scroll and his authority to enact the end-time events is acknowledged by the heavenly court. What follows in the rest of the book is not the revelation of heavenly secrets, but in ever new visions and auditions the Lamb enacts the end-time events. Not even after the opening of the seventh seal (8:1) does Christ sit down and read from the scroll. This means that John deliberately broke with the tradition