Reading Revelation in Context: John's Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism

by Zondervan,

God is frequently presented with lion imagery in the Old Testament (e.g., Job 10:16; Isa 31:4; Jer 50:44; Hos 5:14; Amos 3:8), but such imagery was not understood in messianic terms in the OT or in Jewish writings prior to the first century AD.