The Angels’ Singing

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Rev 5:11-12 “Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they sang: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”

There are so many angels in this verse singing before the throne. Thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand of them! Before, I often pictured out angels singing in heaven. But it is remarkable that when you go to the Bible (King James version) there is only one place where you read of angels singing; it is in Job 38. The morning stars there are angels, and they sang together when this world in its pristine beauty sprang from God’s hand. But that ancient song was stilled. Sin came in and marred that beautiful creation, and from the time that sin came in, we never read again that angels sang.

At the birth of our Lord Jesus, multitude of the heavenly hosts praised God, saying, “Glory to God in the highest’ (Luke 2:14); but we do not read that they sang. But in the verses above, we can read that they sang again. It is a new song, a song of redemption. They are singing because the Lamb is worthy to take the scroll which symbolizes an act of redemption.