Revelation 4
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1After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”
2Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne 3that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at. 4Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads. 5Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. 6Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 7The first creature was like a lion, the second creature like a calf, the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy#4:8 Hodges/Farstad MT reads “holy” 9 times instead of 3. is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
9When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying, 11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,#4:11 TR omits “and God, the Holy One,” to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed and were created!”
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Revelation 4
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The Throne in Heaven
1After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me #ch. 1:10; [Ex. 19:19, 20] like a trumpet, said, #ch. 11:12 “Come up here, and #ch. 1:1, 19; 22:6I will show you what must take place after this.” 2At once #See ch. 1:10 I was in the Spirit, and behold, #Ps. 11:4; 103:19; Isa. 66:1; Matt. 5:34; 23:22; See 1 Kgs. 22:19a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3And he who sat there had the appearance of #ch. 21:11 jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was #Ezek. 1:28; [ch. 10:1; Gen. 9:13-17]a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4Around the throne were #ch. 11:16 twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, #See ch. 3:4 clothed in white garments, with #ver. 10; See James 1:12golden crowns on their heads. 5From the throne came #ch. 8:5; 11:19; 16:18; [Ex. 19:16] flashes of lightning, and rumblings#4:5 Or voices, or sounds and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning #[Zech. 4:2] seven torches of fire, #See ch. 1:4which are the seven spirits of God, 6and before the throne there was #ch. 15:2; [ch. 21:18, 21; Ps. 77:19] as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are #Ezek. 1:5 four living creatures, #Ezek. 10:12full of eyes in front and behind: 7#[Ezek. 1:10; 10:14]the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8And the four living creatures, #Isa. 6:2 each of them with six wings, are #ver. 6 full of eyes all around and within, and #ch. 14:11 day and night they never cease to say,
#
Isa. 6:3 “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
# See ch. 1:4 who was and is and is to come!”
9And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, #ch. 1:18; 5:13; 15:7; Dan. 4:34; 12:7who lives forever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders #ch. 5:8, 14; 7:11; 11:16; 19:4 fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast #ver. 4their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 # ch. 5:12 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for #ch. 10:6; 14:7; Gen. 1:1; Acts 14:15 you created all things,
and #Ps. 33:9-11; [Eph. 1:11]by your will they existed and were created.”
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