The Lamb Who Reigns

In the final week of An Apocalyptic Advent, we lift our eyes to the center of reality and discover that history does not belong to chaos, fear, or the loudest powers of the age—but to the Lamb who reigns. Drawing from Revelation 12, Revelation 5, Luke 2, and Hebrews 12, we are invited to live with hope and endurance in the tension between Christ’s victory and the ongoing struggle of the world.

Revelation announces that the accuser has been thrown down and that the kingdom and authority of Christ have come. Yet the same passage reminds us that the battle continues. Advent people live between the times—saved, yet still waiting; victorious, yet still enduring. This is not a contradiction, but the normal posture of faithful discipleship. Christian hope is not denial or naïve optimism; it is allegiance to the Lamb who was slain and now reigns.

At the heart of John’s vision stands a Lamb bearing scars, not weapons. Power is redefined. Victory is revealed not through domination, but through sacrificial faithfulness. Christmas, then, is not a sentimental story meant to comfort us—it is a cosmic announcement that the true King has come, that Caesar-like powers have been exposed, and that the throne of the universe is occupied.

Hebrews reminds us that everything that can be shaken will be shaken—nations, economies, cultural consensus, and even the false securities we cling to for stability. But in Christ, we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved. Our hope is not anchored in the world’s ability to hold together, but in the unchanging reign of Jesus.

This final week calls us to live as people of an unshakable kingdom—to worship as resistance, to bear faithful witness in a fearful age, and to endure not through strength or spectacle, but through steady allegiance. The Lamb who came in humility now reigns in glory, and the outcome of history is not up for debate.