That good pleasure of God which gave birth to creation, and constantly upholds it, awakens the liveliest gratitude in the hearts of his people, and will draw forth to him the most ardent ascriptions of glory and honor, thanksgiving and praise, for ever and ever.
REVELATION 4:11 h=san {A} The difficulty of the text (where we might have expected the sequence evkti,sqhsan kai. h=san) was alleviated in several witnesses either by reading ouvk h=san or by omitti...
Verse Revelation 4:11. _THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE_] Thus all creation acknowledges the supremacy of God; and we learn from this song that he _made all things for his pleasure_; and through...
THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD - In thy character, perfections, and government, there is what makes it proper that universal praise should be rendered. The feeling of all true worshippers is, that (God is wo...
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...
When the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanksgiving to him who is seated on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders shall fall down before him who is seat...
O LORD. The texts read "our LORD and our God" (App-98.) GLORY, HONOUR, POWER. The texts place article "the" before each. GLORY, as Revelation 4:9. POWER. App-172.1; Rev 176:1. HAST CREATED. didst c...
_Thou art worthy_, &c. Here we have the praise of God the Creator by His Creatures as such: in the next ch. we have the praise of the Redeemer. _for thy pleasure_ Better, BECAUSE OF THY WILL. _they...
THE HOMAGE OF THE ELDERS...
Ὁ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. Text. Rec[173] with 1 substitutes κύριε; א prefixes this to text. [173] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. ἮΣΑΝ ΚΑῚ ἘΚΤΊΣΘΗΣΑΝ. With א and most versions (includ...
_JOHN DESCRIBED GOD AS WORTHY REVELATION 4:8-11:_ We quickly observe that the focus of John's vision is not on the twenty-four elders, nor on the four strange creatures. The focal point is God on the...
ΕΙ _praes. ind._ act>om ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΛΑΒΕΊΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, принимать. _Inf._ поясняет _adj._ ΆΞΙΟΣ (G514) достойный, ΈΚΤΙΣΑΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΤΊΖΩ (G2936) твор...
THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, &C.— Some read and point the verse thus: _Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power: For thou hast created all things; and for thy pleasure...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 12 Text Revelation 4:9-11 9 And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever, 10...
_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...
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. O LORD. A B 'Aleph ('), Vulgate, Syriac, add, 'and...
__ Throne Section-The Scroll At the seventh trumpet they fall and worship, the tenor of their words showing that they are not included among His slaves the prophets or the saints (Rev_11:16). They h...
HAST CREATED] RV 'didst create.' FOR THY PLEASURE] RV 'because of thy will.' ARE] RV 'were,' i.e. existed 'in His idea from all eternity; and when the appointed moment came, they ere created' (Milliga...
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...
The doxology is three-fold. (See Note on Revelation 1:6.) It should run — “Worthy art Thou, O Lord, and our God, To receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, Because Thou didst create all thi...
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...
An implicit refutation of the dualistic idea, developed by Cerinthus, the traditional opponent of John in Asia Minor, that creation was the work of some angel or power separate from God (Iren. i. 26,...
“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...
Verses 9-11 Upon hearing praise given to God, the twenty-four elders join in praise and cast their crowns down before him as an acknowledgment of the source of those crowns. Earthly rulers might deman...
(10) Thou art worthy, O Lord, (11) to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (10) The sum of their speech: that all glor...
(4) And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. (5) And out of...
REFLECTIONS READER! Let us seek grace, that, like the beloved Apostle, we may by faith hear the sweet voice, saying, Come up hither, and like him, may be immediately in the Spirit, when we come to vi...
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 REASON OF CREATION_ ‘Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.’ Revelation 4:11 Beyond this the highest reason of man cannot go. As proof of this, observe t...
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...
THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY HONOUR, AND POWER,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin version, and all the Oriental ones, read, "thou art...
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Ver. 11. _Thou art worthy_] If we would have our soul...
_And when those living creatures give glory, &c., the elders fall down_ That is, as often as the living creatures begin their song of adoration and praise, the elders immediately fall down. The expres...
The sea of glass, the beasts, and the hymn of praise:...
THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER; FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED. This description further enhances the majesty of the pi...
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...
_ 11 “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”_ A. WORTHY ART THOU - These words were on the entrance t...
9-11 All true believers wholly ascribe their redemption and conversion, their present privileges and future hopes, to the eternal and most holy God. Thus rise the for-ever harmonious, thankful songs o...
All the praises, homages, and acknowledgments of all the creatures is thy due; as then art he who gavest the first being to all creatures, and therefore gavest it them, that they might praise, honour,...
Revelation 4:11 are G1488 (G5748) worthy G514 Lord G2962 receive G2983 (G5629) glory G1391 and G2532 honor...
‘And when the living creatures will give glory and honour and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives for ever and ever (unto the ages of the ages), the four and twenty elders will fall...
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 4:11. WORTHY ART THOU, OUR LORD AND OUR GOD, TO TAKE THE GLORY, AND THE HONOUR, AND THE POWER, FOR THOU DIDST CREATE ALL THINGS, AND BECAUSE OF THY WILL THEY WERE, AND THEY WERE CREATED. In...
OUR LORD AND OUR GOD (ο κυριος κα ο θεος ημων). The nominative form here used as vocative as in John 20:28 and often.TO RECEIVE (λαβειν). Epexegetic second aorist active infinitive of λαμβανω wit...
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...
In these verses, all Creation (symbolized by the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures) praise the Triune God - ELOHIM - on his Throne, and worship their Creator. The picture is one of cont...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 4:9 God’s receiving of POWER does not suggest that an omnipotent being can become stronger. Rather, the strength of his creatures is used to honor him....
These living ones give glory and honor and thanks to him that sits upon the throne; and the twenty four elders representing the redeemed of earth, fall down before him that liveth forever and ever and...
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...
_9 AND WHEN THOSE BEASTS GIVE GLORY AND HONOUR AND THANKS TO HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE, WHO LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER,_ _ 10 THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FALL DOWN BEFORE HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE, AN...
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...
1 Chronicles 16:28; 1 Chronicles 16:29; 2 Samuel 22:4; Acts 17:24;...
O Lord [κ υ ρ ι ε]. Read oJ kuriov kai oJ Qeov hJmwn our Lord and our God. So Rev. See on Matthew 21:3. To receive [λ α β ε ι ν]. Or perhaps, better, to take, since the glory, honor, and power are the...
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...
Worthy art thou to receive — This he receives not only when he is thus praised, but also when he destroys his enemies and glorifies himself anew. The glory and the honour and the power — Answering the...