THE WRATH OF THE LAMB?

I just read Revelation 1-8 in one sitting, desperately trying not to get caught up in the amazing metaphors and imagery.  A major thread in the apocalypse is undeniably the subject of judgment.  Questions emerge is to why it was difficult to find someone worthy to open the scrolls (a euphemism for the right to initiate end times events) in Revelation 5? Much of the narrative has to do with bowls, trumpets and angels and all of these events, in a general way, are about bringing  judgment on the earth.  Then in Revelation 6:16 (ESV) we read, “¹⁶ calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.”  Did you notice the flagrant oxymoron? The wrath of the Lamb!  Gentle Jesus meek and mild is not the Person represented in this amazing account.  Nor is the Church characterized as apathetic, in this Book.  Much of the judgment seems to be the result of the prayers of the saints (“And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.” (Revelation 5:8, ESV); confirm: Revelation 8:3). 

Perhaps it is summarily true to suggest that we have watered-down our  understanding of the Savior and that His coming is one of righteous re-assertion over a world that has rebelled against Him.   Secondly, perhaps it is not so callous as some think for His saints to seek for just and cry day and night, “How long O Lord, how long?”