I had another vision. John is given a series of visions in this book. An open door in heaven. So that he can see how God looks at our entire Universe! Come up here. To the throne as it appears in the vision! Note that Chapter s 4 & 5 teach ONE MAIN LESSON - "Jehovah reigns; let the peoples tremble!"
CHAPTER IV. _John sees the throne of God in heaven surrounded by twenty-four_ _elders; and four living creatures, full of eyes; which all_ _join in giving glory to the Almighty_, 1-11. NOTES ON CH...
AFTER THIS - Greek, “After these things”; that is, after what he had seen, and after what he had been directed to record in the preceding chapters. How long after these things this occurred, he does n...
III. THE THINGS WHICH ARE AFTER THESE, THE END OF THE AGE, THE CONSUMMATION, AND FINAL MESSAGES (4-22) Chapter S 4-5 _ 1. The open door and the vision of the throne (Revelation 4:1)_ 2. The twenty...
REVELATION 4. THE VISION OF HEAVEN. In this chapter the real Apocalypse commences. A door is opened in heaven and the seer sees the throne of God, flashing like jewels, and surrounded by a rainbow. Tw...
With the fourth chapter there is. remarkable change in the nature of Revelation. Two parts, the record of the things John _saw_ and the things that _were_ (are) have ended; the third part, the declara...
THE OPENING HEAVENS AND THE OPENING DOOR (Revelation 4:1) _ 4:1 After this I saw, and, behold, a door in heaven was standing open, and there came to me the voice that I had heard before, speaking to...
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Heaven opened Chap. Revelation 4:1-9 1. _I looked_ Better, I BEHELD, AND LO! as Revelation 5:6; Revelation 5:11 &c.; Da
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Revelation 4:1-9. HEAVEN OPENED...
_JOHN DESCRIBED WHAT HE SAW REVELATION 4:1-3 : AFTER_ the letters had been completed to the seven churches John saw a door opened in heaven. The voice of_ _ the Son of God is heard by John and is comp...
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AFTER THIS I LOOKED, &C.— _After these things I saw and beheld a door opened in heaven._ Doddridge. After the vision in the former Chapter s, relating to _the things which are,_ other visions succeed...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 11 Text Revelation 4:1-8 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one sayi...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ PART II CHAPTER IV THE VISION OF THE THRONE _Text (Revelation 4:1-11)_ 1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voi...
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things w...
THE PROPHETIC SECTION 10 _ Endurance _ will be a cardinal virtue in that day of stress and distress. Seven times are we reminded of it (Rev_1:9; Rev_2:2-3; Rev_2:19; Rev_3:10; Rev_13:10; Rev_14:12)....
FIRST VOICE] i.e. the voice of Revelation 1:10....
THE GLORY OF GOD The Church has been encouraged in the midst of her tribulation and temptation by the vision of the presence and support of Christ. Now (Revelation 4:5) a further series of visions beg...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 *WORSHIP IN HEAVEN - REVELATION 4:1-5 *WORSHIP OF GOD WHO CREATED ALL THINGS - REVELATION 4:1-11...
AFTER THIS (better, _these things)_ I LOOKED (literally, _I saw;_ not “I looked,” as though the prophet turned his gaze then towards it), AND, BEHOLD A DOOR WAS OPENED (or, _set open)_ IN HEAVEN. — He...
CHAPTER III. ANTICIPATIONS OF THE CHURCH'S VICTORY. Revelation 4:1; Revelation 5:1. WE have seen in considering the first chapter of the Apocalypse that the book as a whole is to be occupied with th...
μετὰ … ἰδού introducing as usual in an independent clause (instead of a simple accus., Vit. ii. 8 f., 31, 173, 174, to which he reverts in Revelation 4:4) some fresh and weighty revelation; lesser pha...
“A THRONE SET IN HEAVEN” Revelation 4:1 The vision of the ascended Lord introduced the seven letters to the churches, so the visions of this and the next Chapter s introduce the seven seals. They res...
This chapter introduces us to the Revelation of Christ in His government of all world affairs in which a most remarkable vision of the heavenly order is presented to us. Everything is seen as surround...
After he had been given the letters to the seven churches, John saw a door standing open in heaven. The voice is likely of Jesus, as in Revelation 1:10. He invites John into heaven to view things that...
After (1) this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee t...
No sooner had St. John received in the preceding vision the documents he was to transmit to the seven Churches of Asia [Asia Minor], when, behold, a new scene displays itself. Heaven opens, and St. Jo...
(1) After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee thing...
CONTENTS At this Chapter, we enter upon those Prophecies which relate to the Church of God, from the Ascension of Christ, going on through a regular Progression, to the Descension of Christ, at the g...
We have already seen the bearing of the seven churches to which the Lord was pleased to send the letters contained in the second and third Chapter s. We have found, I trust, substantial reason and amp...
_THE VISION OF HEAVEN_ ‘Come up hither.’ Revelation 4:1 This is the first of a series of visions which St. John had in Patmos—the vision of the temple in heaven, the vision of the throne of God and...
After These Things I. INTRODUCTION A. The key to understanding the book of Revelation is in Revelation 1:19 "Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will...
But we have to consider where the fourth Chapter commences God's ways. It does not follow necessarily that the assembly has been spued out of Christ's mouth. It had been threatened; but the judgment o...
AFTER THIS I LOOKED,.... After John had seen the vision of Christ, in the midst of the golden candlesticks, with seven stars in his right hand; after he was bid to write what he had seen, and what wer...
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door _was_ opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard _was_ as it were of a t...
The former vision which John saw, contained in the foregoing Chapter s, represented the state of the church at the time when the vision was given, or the things that then were, (Revelation 1:19,) and...
AND THE FIRST VOICE-TALKING WITH ME; or, And the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet talking with me; the voice, namely, mentioned in chap Revelation 1:10....
THE VISION OF GOD'S THRONE OF MAJESTY AND GLORY. Revelation 4:1 The throne and the seat of the elders:...
AFTER THIS I LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, A DOOR WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN; AND THE FIRST VOICE WHICH I HEARD WAS AS IT WERE OF A TRUMPET TALKING WITH ME, WHICH SAID, COME UP HITHER, AND I WILL SHOW THEE THINGS WH...
A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN From this point in Revelation the Church is never again seen on earth, but always in heaven or coming as the armies in heaven with her Lord to judge the earth (Revelation 19:11...
As we enter into the description of the vision itself, here is a little outline that might help you. Chapter 4 Have faith in the power and dominion of God. Chapter 5 Keep your faith in the power and...
1-8 After the Lord Jesus had instructed the apostle to write to the churches "the things that are," there was another vision. The apostle saw a throne set in heaven, an emblem of the universal domini...
REVELATION CHAPTER 4 REVELATION 4:1 John seeth the throne of God in heaven, REVELATION 4:4,5 encompassed with four and twenty elders, REVELATION 4:6,7 and four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
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THE VISION OF HEAVEN. ‘After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven. And the first voice which I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, “Come up here and I will...
Chaps. 4 and 5 form the third section of the Apocalypse; but the struggle of the Church, which it is the main object of the book to describe, does not yet begin. These two Chapter s are preparatory to...
Revelation 4:1. AFTER THESE THINGS denotes succession of visions, not of time; and the rest of the verse is preparatory to the vision rather than strictly speaking a part of it. The apostle must be un...
AFTER THESE THINGS (μετα ταυτα). Change in the panorama, not chronology (Revelation 7:1; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 15:5; Revela...
COME UP HITHER This call seems clearly to indicate the fulfilment of (1 Thessalonians 4:14). The word "church" does not again occur in the Revelation till all is fulfilled....
Revelation 4:1 Heaven Near, though Hidden. Note: I. The division between earth and heaven. The fact that earth and heaven are divided by so wide a gulf seems to me one of the strangest facts in our...
CONTENTS: Things which shall be. Vision of the throne in heaven, the enthroned elders, the four living creatures and their worship with the elders because of creation. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit...
It is proper here to assist the reader with a key to the sublime visions about to open, which has been furnished by the profound study and observation of learned men in the churches of France, Germany...
REVELATION 4:1 “Things that shall take place after this”: Christ’s defense of his church and destruction of its enemies. Having identified the strengths and weaknesses of the seven Asian churches, whi...
John's vision begins with a door opened into heaven; looking into heaven. The vision he sees is introductory to what follows. He is now preparing his readers for the immediate and main purpose of his...
AN INTRODUCTORY THEOPHANY _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 4:1. SAW.—Observed, not specially “looked up.” OPENED.—Set open. TRUMPET.— Revelation 1:10. WHICH SAID.—The voice is put for the...
EXPOSITION This is the commencement of the second great division, which embraces Revelation 4-22:5, that in which the revelation, properly so called, takes place. Revelation 4:1. and 5. contain the f...
CHAPTER 4 - JOHN IS CAUGHT UP TO HEAVEN _ 1 AFTER THIS I LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, A DOOR WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN: AND THE FIRST VOICE WHICH I HEARD WAS AS IT WERE OF A TRUMPET TALKING WITH ME; WHICH SAID,...
Revelation chapter four begins with the Greek word "meta autos". And the first verse begins and ends with the same Greek words. The words literally from the Greek are "after these things". So as we co...
Acts 10:11; Acts 7:56; Exodus 1:1; Exodus 19:24; Exodus 24:12;...
After this [μ ε τ α τ α υ τ α]. Rev., literally, after these things. Not indicating a break in the ecstatic state of the seer, but only a succession of separate visions. I looked [ε ι δ ο ν]. Rev., b...
THE THRONE PREPARING FOR JUDGMENT Revelation 4:1 _and Revelation 5:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are now approaching the second division of the Book of Revelation. Chapter three concludes the message to...
After these things — As if he had said, After I had written these letters from the mouth of the Lord. By the particle and, the several parts of this prophecy are usually connected: by the expression,...
As if St. John had said, After my first vision was over, being desirous farther to understand and know the mind of God,. looked upwards to heaven, from whence divine revelations come, and it was repre...