Revelation 4

The Throne in Heaven

1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne.
4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits[a] of God.
6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’[b]who was, and is, and is to come.”
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

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Cross References 32

  • 1. S Matthew 3:16
  • 2. Revelation 1:10
  • 3. Revelation 11:12
  • 4. Revelation 1:19; Revelation 22:6
  • 5. S Revelation 1:10
  • 6. ver 9,10; 1 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 6:1; Ezekiel 1:26-28; Daniel 7:9; Revelation 20:11
  • 7. Revelation 21:11
  • 8. Revelation 21:20
  • 9. Ezekiel 1:28; Revelation 10:1
  • 10. Revelation 21:19
  • 11. ver 10; Rev 5:6,8,14; Revelation 11:16; Revelation 19:4
  • 12. S Revelation 3:4,5
  • 13. Exodus 19:16; Revelation 8:5; Revelation 11:19; Revelation 16:18
  • 14. Zechariah 4:2
  • 15. S Revelation 1:4
  • 16. Revelation 15:2
  • 17. ver 8,9; Ezekiel 1:5; Revelation 5:6; Revelation 6:1; Revelation 7:11; Revelation 14:3; Revelation 15:7; Revelation 19:4
  • 18. Ezekiel 1:18; Ezekiel 10:12
  • 19. Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 10:14
  • 20. S ver 6
  • 21. Isaiah 6:2
  • 22. Ezekiel 1:18
  • 23. Revelation 14:11
  • 24. Isaiah 6:3; S Revelation 1:8
  • 25. S Revelation 1:4
  • 26. ver 2; Psalms 47:8; S Revelation 5:1
  • 27. S Revelation 1:18
  • 28. S ver 4
  • 29. Deuteronomy 33:3; Revelation 5:8,14; Revelation 7:11; Revelation 11:16
  • 30. S ver 2
  • 31. Revelation 1:6; Revelation 5:12
  • 32. Acts 14:15; Revelation 10:6

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Revelation 4 Commentaries

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