NT Text: Revelation 5:9-10 — "You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth."
OT Source(s):
Source: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Köstenberger & O'Brien, Salvation to the Ends of the Earth)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Typology (consummative fulfillment)
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
Significance: The new song to the Lamb compresses three clauses of the Adamic commission into a single consummative vision. The redeemed are purchased "from every tribe and tongue and people and nation" — the fill the earth clause realized as a redeemed humanity gathered from the whole world; they are constituted "a kingdom and priests" — the original Edenic priest-king role of Adam (Gen 1:28 with Gen 2:15, here fused with Exod 19:6); and they "will reign upon the earth" — the dominion / rule (rādâ) clause finally fulfilled. This is Eden restored and consummated: the commission that every prior Adam-figure failed to complete is brought to its goal in those redeemed by the Last Adam's blood. Per the ATN §4 this is an allusion (composite with Exod 19:6, no citation formula) functioning as consummative typological fulfillment — three Adamic-commission clauses fulfilled in one of the four most theologically weighty uses in the entire network.