Revelation 4:1-3 His Throne in Heaven – Part 1
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Rev 4:1-3 God’s Throne In Heaven
Updated December 28, 2023
Rev 4:1 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 things which must be hereafter.
Rev 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
Rev 4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Introduction
Once again, we must constantly be vigilant against the pulls of our flesh to attempt to make this a prophesy that is concerned only with chronological outward events. “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven” is not telling us that a door was opened in heaven after the message to the church of Laodicea was delivered, in the day when John first wrote these words. Nor does it mean that this “door… in heaven” will be opened after a ‘Laodicean church era’ has come and gone, just before Christ’s return to rule this earth for one thousand years. These words we are reading are all the words of Christ addressed specifically, not only to the symbolic “seven churches in Asia”, but also to “he that hath and ear to hear”, and to whomsoever is given “eyes to see and ears to hear and keep the things written therein” in every generation since these words were first written (Mat 13:10-15, Rev 1:3).
These words are the words of Christ, and like Him they always, and in every generation, are, were, and will be true and applicable to every one who has been given “ears to hear what the spirit says to the churches” (Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29, Rev 3:6, 13, 22)
Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Christ “is, was, and is to come,” which is simply a repetition of what our Lord has already told us of His words in Matthew 24:
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things [these words of Christ] be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
“This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled” in Matthew and “keep those things which are written therein” in Revelation, are both the words of Christ which “shall never pass away” but will be kept by all who read and hear and keep all the things John saw and wrote for those who have ears to hear (Rev 1:3).
Rev 4:1 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 things which must be hereafter.
We know that the open door is Christ. He has just told us so:
Joh 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
Joh 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
Joh 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
We are saved by going through “the door.” There is no other way. Christ did not say, “I know the way.” What He did say is, “I AM the way…”:
Joh 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Christ and His words judge us and give us life. That is what “I am the door” means. Any time we see the words ‘door’ or ‘open door’, we are being told that our knowledge of Christ is about to be increased exponentially, because He will be both judging us and supping with us. Both actions increase our knowledge of our Lord:
Jas 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Rev 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Judgment begins first at the house of God. It is God’s own people with whom He sups and judges and cleanses first. That judgment does not even begin until we have come to see that everything we have just read, and which we have been given ears to hear about the seven churches of Asia, is first and foremost within each of us to be read, heard and kept by everyone who is given ears to hear what the spirit says to the churches. It is all first to be fulfilled within “He that hath and ear to hear” that he is to keep all the things of which John bare record, “all the things written therein… the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” This has been the case for God’s elect in every generation since the day Christ was raised from the dead and came on the day of Pentecost to live His life of dying daily in the lives of all of His elect. We must first recognize that we are guilty of thinking of ourselves as rich and increased with goods, having need of nothing, when in reality all the problems found in all seven of the churches of Asia are within us, and in reality, we are all first miserable and poor and blind and naked:
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
If we do not first see that we are to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, including all the words addressed to the seven churches of Asia, then we will never “look and behold a door opened in heaven.” So we read, “After this [revelation of the spiritual condition of the seven churches of Asia within me] I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven.” Where did John go to in order to see what was beyond that open door in heaven?
What and where is heaven?
Where did John go when he saw this open door? How did he get to the point that he was given this ‘open door in heaven’? When Nicodemus came to Christ by night, he confessed that the Jewish leaders knew Christ was a teacher sent from heaven. Here is that discourse between Christ and Nicodemus. It is at the end of this discourse that we learn so much about how John was given to see that open door in heaven and what ‘heaven’ is and where ‘heaven’ is:
Joh 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Joh 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God [a door opened in heaven].
Joh 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water [flesh] and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh [water]; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Joh 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Joh 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Joh 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
Joh 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Here is where Christ tells us of heavenly things. He tells Nicodemus and he tells us of heavenly things, and we all, at first, believe not:
Joh 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
I used to believe that the words “even the Son of Man which is in heaven” was a parenthetical statement which the apostle John had inserted as he was writing this gospel after the fact. As we are about to see, the scriptures reveal that such is not the case at all. In scriptural terms, Christ was at that very moment “seated with [His Father] in the heavens.” Christ has just revealed to Nicodemus, and to all of us, that He had “come down from heaven”, and yet He is “in the spirit” at the same time “in heaven” just as John and you and I are “seated with Christ in the heavens” at this very moment:
Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:
Both verbs in that verse… ‘raised together’… ‘sit together’ are in the aorist tense because they never pass away and are true in every generation.
That is how one can be come “down from heaven” and at the same time “be in heaven.” That is the answer to that question posed by Nicodemus… “How can these things be…” Christ was “in heaven” in the same way that we, as His elect, are even now “seated together with Him in the heavens” while we are still on this earth and while we are still in these bodies of sinful flesh. How can that be? Here is how John was “in the spirit” when a door was opened in heaven:
Christ was living a “raised up life” and was “made to sit together with His Father in the heavens” of His own heart and mind. The word ‘places’ is in brackets because it is not in the original Greek translation. The Greek simply says “hath made us sit together in the heavens in Christ Jesus.”
This all demonstrates that ‘heaven’ is not a physical, geographical location which God must occupy in order to have a realm which He controls. ‘Heaven’ is the spiritual realm in which all the struggles of this physical life are fought. It is “in the heavens” that we both lose and win all the battles which seem to us to be so physical. Am I saying there is no physical element to this struggle? Absolutely not! “You sold me into Egypt” was just as true physically as it was that Christ Himself told Moses He would feed Israel with “bread from heaven.” However, Joseph revealed to his brothers and to us that there is a much greater spiritual and heavenly truth to both of those statements, “You sold me into Egypt” and “I will feed you with bread from heaven.”
Joseph twice told His brothers “You sold me into Egypt”:
Gen 45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Yet there is no contradiction at all when, in the same breath, Joseph reveals the heavenly perspective of how all physical matters are brought about and are worked by God’s power and His spirit “after the counsel of His own will”:
Gen 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Gen 45:8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.Dan 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
The Truth that God is at this very moment ‘ruling in the kingdoms of men’ and is ‘working all things after the counsel of His own will’ is the spiritual Truth which is so superior to the physical appearance of ‘free moral agency’ that the scriptures say the physical shadow is not the truth at all:
Joh 1:17 For the law [a shadow of The Truth (Heb 10:1)] was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Did God really feed Israel with “bread from heaven” in the form of manna? Of course He did, ‘physically’:
Exo 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
According to Him who is “the Truth” physical manna was “not that [true] bread from heaven” at all. This is how that event is viewed from the heavens:
Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
Joh 6:33 For the [True] bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Joh 6:34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
Joh 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Revealing that the law of Moses, and everything that happened in that economy, was merely a type and a shadow of the “good things to come… through Christ Jesus our Lord” is not a contradiction anymore than it is a contradiction to say that life comes only “through death”.
Col 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
It is the scriptures themselves which demonstrate how the “shadow” of the Truth in the physical realm of the Old Testament is not the Truth at all and is actually denied by the overwhelmingly superior truth of the heavenly spiritual perspective:
2Co 3:10 For even that which was made glorious [in the physical realm and in the Old Testament realm] had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
The story of Joseph and his brothers reveals how outward physical events are used by the Lord Himself to hide the Truths of the spiritual realm and to keep the multitudes from being given ears to hear or eyes to see an “open door in the heavens”.
Christ is the Creator of both the first and the last Adam, just as He is the author of both the old and the new covenant. Just as the first Adam is dying and is temporal, so also is the first covenant passing and being “done away.”
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul,” the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.
2Co 3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
“That which is done away” said “save alive nothing that breatheth.” The “life giving spirit [of] the last Adam” says “As in [“the first man”] Adam all die even so in [“the last Adam”] Christ shall all be made alive.”
Deu 20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
What does this same ‘Lord’ say in the “time of reformation?”
Mat 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Mat 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
… and this:
Joh 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
Joh 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Joh 6:34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
Joh 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
“I will rain bread from heaven for you… Moses gave you not that bread from heaven…” Which is the truth? Once again, both are true in their own time, but the physical truth is so inferior to the spiritual that the physical must be recognized as the veil which covers the minds of the multitudes and hides from them “the things of the spirit”:
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
“Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven… I am the bread of life.”
Do we wrestle against our flesh? It sure seems that we are struggling against the flesh:
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
What is the superior spiritual truth of this matter? Once again, the spiritual truth denies what appears to be true in the physical realm:
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Is Paul contradicting what he has told us in Galatians 5:19? No, he certainly is not. Paul is not contradicting himself any more than Joseph contradicts himself when he explains to his brothers that they did indeed sell him into Egypt, but it wasn’t really them who sent him there but God. Paul is not contradicting himself any more than Christ tells Moses that He is feeding Israel with bread from heaven but then tells us He is the true bread from heaven. Physical bread is not the real bread, and physical heavens are not where God really dwells. God dwells in the realm of the spirit. As such God is everywhere at the same time. In Christ we, too, at this very moment are both “made to sit with Him in the heavens, [and at the same time] come down from heaven” inasmuch as we are all “God’s offspring.”
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Going back to Ephesians 6:12 we need to note that the word ‘places’ is in brackets simply because it is not in the original Greek manuscripts. The Greek reads simply that “we wrestle… against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.” So we can now understand why “the heavenly things themselves must be purified with better things than… the blood of calves and goats.”
Heb 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Heb 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Heb 9:9 Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
“The way into the holiest of all” was the way into the heart and mind of “him that did the service… as pertaining to the conscience.” The blood that cleansed the tabernacle was “the blood that he offered for himself and for the sins of the people.” The true altars and the true temple, which must be be purified, is “in the [true] heavens”, which ‘heavens’ are the heart, mind, and conscience of him that does the service. That is where Christ dwells. That is “the heavenly things themselves” which require “better sacrifices than… the blood of goats and calves”:
Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself [“Ye ARE the temple of God” (1Co 3:16)], now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Both ‘the blood of animals and the holiest place of all’ were just “a figure” for the time then present of the real temple and altar that must be purified”. That true temple is the conscience and heart and mind of God’s people,” and all of the temple ordinances were merely a type of that reality which stood as “a figure for the time then present… until the time of reformation,” the time of the coming of Christ.
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us].
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
What again was the physical temple with all its physical ordinances?
Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
What are the true heavens and the true temple in the true heavens into which Christ enters when He destroys the man of sin within us and takes His rightful position as the king of our hearts and minds and sits on the throne of our hearts, in the heavens of which the tabernacle of Moses was but a type?
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
What are “the heavenly things themselves?” Where is “heaven itself?” Where is “the temple of God?” This is what the holy spirit has to say in answer to those questions:
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
‘The heavenly things themselves’ are the true things which were purified by the blood of Christ, which the blood of calves and goats could never purify, and “the heaven itself” is the place into which Christ entered and where He and His father dwell after His death and resurrection. That is where “the presence of God” is, and that is where “Christ has entered and appeared for us.” That is “the house of God… [in] the city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem”:
1Ti 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
So where do the scriptures teach us ‘heaven’ is? Is it really on another planet? Is heaven just another physical planet with physical streets of physical gold and big beautiful physical mansions? Is that what is meant by “a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands?”
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
No, ‘heaven’ is NOT a physical planet. ‘Heaven’ is the realm of the spirit where “a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands” is recognized as the spiritual temple, where God dwells and where He walks in His people. Our heavenly Father, “into whose presence Christ has entered for us” dwells in us if we are given the faith to believe His own testimony:
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
There is really no room for speculation or doubt. We are told where God dwells. We are told where His ‘temple in heaven’ is, and we are told what is His temple in heaven is:
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
We are told where Christ ascended upon His resurrection from among the dead:
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
It was by being in the spirit and being given to “receive the things of the spirit” that John was given to see “a door opened in heaven” and to share with us the revelation of Jesus Christ there in the heavens where God is sitting on His throne directing the opening of the seven seals, the blowing of the seven trumpets, and the pouring out of the seven vials upon the kingdom of our old man.
Rev 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
Rev 4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
It is only after we are given to see what has been “hidden from ages and from generations” behind the “door in the heaven” that our “war in the heavens” begins to be waged against the beast and the dragon who gives the beast his power and seat and great authority:
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you [in “the heaven themselves (Heb 9:23)], the hope of glory:
Only after “a door [is] opened in [our] heaven” can we begin to see “Christ [revealed] within” each of His elect. This ‘open door’ is the revealing of “the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints” through this “door opened in [our] heavens”.
This is all “in spirit… on the Lord’s day” and again John hears “a voice as it were a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here and I will show you things which must be hereafter.” We covered in depth the meaning of the being “in the spirit on the Lord’s day” in chapter 1 verse 10. The “great voice, as of a trumpet” is the same voice in both verses:
Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Rev 4:1 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 things which must be hereafter.
The scriptures make it clear that the open door in heaven reveals to us the day of judgment into which we are entering as our knowledge of the revelation of Jesus Christ is about to be increased exponentially. We will not go back over all the verses which we have already covered, which make this point clear, but we will reference these verses:
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Rev 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
The “open door in heaven” and the “judgment that begins at the house of God” are the same. “The things which shall be hereafter” of Revelation 1:19 are the same “things which must be hereafter” of Revelation 4:1.
Both are the revelation of Jesus Christ within His elect, through the judgments of the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven vials which are poured out upon the kingdom of our old man, which we will see as our studies progress.
We will stop here for today and continue to see the things of the spirit concerning the throne of God, which are being revealed to us through this “door in heaven… the mystery that has been hidden [behind that ‘door’] from generations and from ages, which is Christ in us the hope of glory” (Col 1:27, Rev 4:1).
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- Revelation 6:9-11 - The Souls Under the Altar (November 18, 2009)
- Revelation 6:5-6 The Black Horse (November 18, 2009)
- Revelation 6:12-17 - Part 2 (November 18, 2009)
- Revelation 6:12-17 - Part 1 (November 18, 2009)
- Revelation 6:1-4 (August 22, 2009)
- Revelation 5:7-10 (July 31, 2009)
- Revelation 5:4-6 (August 4, 2009)
- Revelation 5:11-14 (August 8, 2009)
- Revelation 5:1-3 - Who Can Open the Book? Part 1 (July 4, 2009)
- Revelation 4:8-9 Wings of the Seraphim (June 25, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6-7 - Four Beasts - Part 6 (June 14, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6-7 - Four Beasts - Part 5 (June 14, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6-7 - Four Beasts - Part 4 (May 23, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6-7 - Four Beasts - Part 3 (May 16, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6-7 - Four Beasts - Part 2A (May 9, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6-7 - Four Beasts - Part 1 (May 7, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6 - Sea of Glass - Part 2 (May 2, 2009)
- Revelation 4:6 - Sea of Glass - Part 1 (April 30, 2009)
- Revelation 4:4-5 Four and Twenty Elders (April 11, 2009)
- Revelation 4:10-11 (June 28, 2009)
- Revelation 4:1-3 His Throne in Heaven - Part 1 (April 7, 2009)
- Revelation 3:7-9 (February 13, 2009)
- Revelation 3:4-6 - Sardis, Part 3 (February 7, 2009)
- Revelation 3:3 - Sardis, Part 2 (January 30, 2009)
- Revelation 3:19-22 Laodicea, Part 3 (March 21, 2009)
- Revelation 3:18 (March 14, 2009)
- Revelation 3:14-18 (March 21, 2009)
- Revelation 3:10-13 - Philadelphia, Part 2 (February 19, 2009)
- Revelation 3:1-2 Sardis, Part 1 (January 30, 2009)
- Revelation 2:8-11 - Smyrna (December 24, 2008)
- Revelation 2:26-29 (January 17, 2009)
- Revelation 2:21-25 (January 10, 2009)
- Revelation 2:18-20 (January 6, 2009)
- Revelation 2:12-17 - Part 2 (December 26, 2008)
- Revelation 2:12-17 - Part 1 (December 24, 2008)
- Revelation 2:1-7 (December 24, 2008)
- Revelation 22:6-10 (June 4, 2011)
- Revelation 22:16-21 (June 25, 2011)
- Revelation 22:11-15 (June 11, 2011)
- Revelation 22:1-5 (May 26, 2011)
- Revelation 21:9-12 (May 26, 2011)
- Revelation 21:4-8 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 21:23-27 (May 15, 2011)
- Revelation 21:18-22 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 21:13-17 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 21:1-3 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 20:7-10 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 20:11-15 (October 26, 2011)
- Revelation 20:1-6 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 1:9 - Part 2 (August 8, 2008)
- Revelation 1:9 - Part 1 (August 8, 2008)
- Revelation 1:8 (July 25, 2008)
- Revelation 1:7 - Behold, He Cometh with Clouds... (July 19, 2008)
- Revelation 1:6 (July 10, 2008)
- Revelation 1:5 - Part 2 - First Begotten of the Dead (July 10, 2008)
- Revelation 1:5 - Part 1 (June 20, 2008)
- Revelation 1:4 Part 2 (January 22, 2009)
- Revelation 1:4 Part 1 (June 6, 2008)
- Revelation 1:18-20 (December 6, 2008)
- Revelation 1:17 (November 24, 2008)
- Revelation 1:16 - Part 2 (November 15, 2008)
- Revelation 1:16 - Part 1 (January 22, 2009)
- Revelation 1:15 (November 1, 2008)
- Revelation 1:14 (October 25, 2008)
- Revelation 1:13, Part 2 - One Like unto the Son of Man (October 3, 2008)
- Revelation 1:13 - Part 4 (November 17, 2008)
- Revelation 1:13 - Part 1 (September 19, 2008)
- Revelation 1:11-12 (September 13, 2008)
- Revelation 1:10 - Part 3 (October 23, 2008)
- Revelation 1:10 - Part 2 (August 23, 2008)
- Revelation 1:10 - Part 1 (August 15, 2008)
- Revelation 1:1-2 - Read, Hear and Keep These Words (July 24, 2008)
- Revelation 19:6-10 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 19:20 (November 13, 2011)
- Revelation 19:17-21 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 19:11-16 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 19:1-5 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 18:9-14 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 18:5-8 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 18:24 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 18:20-23 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 18:15-19 (May 13, 2011)
- Revelation 18:1-4 (December 29, 2010)
- Revelation 17:7-11 (December 10, 2010)
- Revelation 17:12-18 (December 29, 2010)
- Revelation 17:1-6 (December 10, 2010)
- Revelation 16:4-9 (October 22, 2010)
- Revelation 16:17-21 (November 13, 2010)
- Revelation 16:10-16 (November 7, 2010)
- Revelation 16:1-3 (October 15, 2010)
- Revelation 15:5-8 to Revelation 16:1-3 (October 15, 2010)
- Revelation 15:1-4 (October 9, 2010)
- Revelation 14:6-12 (September 16, 2010)
- Revelation 14:13-20 (September 23, 2010)
- Revelation 14:1-5 (September 11, 2010)
- Revelation 13:6-9 (August 6, 2010)
- Revelation 13:3-5 (July 29, 2010)
- Revelation 13:14-18 (September 3, 2010)
- Revelation 13:10-13 (August 19, 2010)
- Revelation 13:1-2 (July 22, 2010)
- Revelation 12:7-9 (July 2, 2010)
- Revelation 12:14-17 (July 16, 2010)
- Revelation 12:10-13 (July 9, 2010)
- Revelation 12:1-6 (June 25, 2010)
- Revelation 11:7-14 (May 8, 2010)
- Revelation 11:5-6 (April 30, 2010)
- Revelation 11:4 (April 22, 2010)
- Revelation 11:15-17 (June 12, 2010)
- Revelation 11:1-3 (April 18, 2010)
- Revelation 10:5-11 (April 9, 2010)
- Revelation 10:1-4 (April 12, 2010)
- Rev 1:3 How do we Keep the Sayings of this Book? (January 22, 2009)
- Rev 1:13, Part3 - Christ Revealed in the Law of the Offerings (October 11, 2008)