Other Worldly

Stained glass has a way of transporting me to another world, as if Light shining through colored glass is like two worlds entwined. 
I'm finding that the readings from the Apocalypse (Revelation) are having a similar effect on me.  I feel like I am being transported to the other world being described with such extravagant imagery. 
Chapter 5:1-14 is the second image of the Risen Christ that appears in the book.  The first was a majestic figure; this is a bit gruesome.  We are in the throne room of God.  We see the Lion of Judah, who represents the conquering Messiah.  In the kind of shape-shifting that is used in fantasy films like Narnia and Harry Potter and in any number of science fiction movies, the Lion becomes a Lamb that has been slaughtered, but is still standing.  More prey than predator.  One who conquers has been momentarily conquered by death.  Jesus won the victory, not by violence, but by sacrificing his own life.
We are caught up by harps and golden bowls of incense in the prayers and hymns of the saints,  "myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands singing in full voice." And finally in the most universal expression in the whole Bible of God's saving act, "I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing,
'To the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb
 be blessing and honor and glory and might
 forever and ever.'
And the four living creatures said, 'Amen!'  And the elders fell down and worshipped."
Light from this other world shines through us and transports us into the worship happening in the entire universe.