Revelation 5:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The four living creatures and four and twenty elders (by which are represented the ministers and members of the church of Christ) go on in showing why they had reason to proclaim Christ worthy to be the Prophet to his church, to open the counsels of God to them, viz. because of the great love he had showed to them, not only in redeeming them with his blood from the guilt and power of sin, but in making them kings and priests; giving them the same privileges that the Jewish church had, who were called a royal priesthood, Exodus 19:6; giving them a power (as priests) to offer up not such bloody fleshly sacrifices as they offered, but) spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through the Beloved, 1 Peter 2:5: and also (as kings) to rule over their lusts and sensitive appetite; and to reign hereafter on the earth, judging the world \1 Corinthians 6:3\ at the great day, with the great Judge of the quick and the dead.

Revelation 5:10

10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.