Revelation 5:7

Next John saw God the Father on the throne and the Lamb (evidently now in human form) coming and taking the scroll out of His right hand. This is evidently a dramatic use of the perfect tense of the verb eilephen ("took"). [Note: Robertson, 6:335.] Clearly this symbolizes a transfer of authority from the Father to the Son to reveal the future and to execute judgment (cf. Revelation 1:1).

"It has been frequently recognized that the vision of chapter 5 gives us a Christian prophet’s version of the enthronement ceremony known to the ancient world, when its potentates ascended their thrones. Here the king is the Christ, his domain the universe, and his throne the throne of God [cf. Philippians 2:6-11]. . . . The steps of the ancient enthronement are commonly described as exaltation, presentation, enthronement. If we apply these to chapter 5, the exaltation must be seen in the conquest of the Lamb referred to in Revelation 5:5, the presentation in Revelation 5:6, and the bestowal of authority in Revelation 5:7." [Note: Beasley-Murray, p. 110.]