The Beloved Disciple recorded by The Holy Spirit in Revelation chapter 5:
1 And I saw in the Right Hand of Him who sat on the Throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
2 Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?”
3 And no one in Heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.
4 So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it.
5 But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.”
In order to understand what John saw, we must pay close attention to the scroll itself. There was writing on both sides of the scroll which indicated that it was a specific, unusual legal document, an opisthograph. The writings on the outside of the scroll were instructions pertaining to the opening of the document.
Only The Righteous Judge, The Creator of Heaven and earth, Truth and Life, would be able to possess such a document in The Throne Room. The ultimate Court proceeding is at hand! There is a legal transaction about to occur.
As a reference in the Old Testament, it is written by THE SPIRIT in Jeremiah chapter 32:
1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
2 For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
The king of Judah did not like the Word of THE LORD so he put Jeremiah in prison:
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him eye to eye;
5 then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him,” says the LORD; “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed”‘?”
How does a leader respond who has been judged by Truth, he imprisons the messenger. It was true for Jeremiah as it was true for John The Baptist.
6 And Jeremiah said, “The Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
7 ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth (answers to prayer), for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”‘
8 Then Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the Word of the LORD, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the Word of the LORD.
9 So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and weighed out to him the money-seventeen shekels of silver.
The field (representing the world) was given to the one who had the right of redemption. However, he had to pay the price demanded of the owner.
10 And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.
11 So I took the purchase deed, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open;
12 and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch (blessed) the son of Neriah (lamp of Jehovah), son of Mahseiah (Jehovah is a shelter), in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.
The name Hanamel means “GOD is gracious”.
13 “Then I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14 ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.”
15 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.”‘
This entire legal transaction, by design, points to the legal transaction to occur in The Throne Room. Our redemption required a legal transaction which Jesus satisfied and appeared in The Court of Heaven on our behalf.