![]() (1) John is called up into heaven.Īfter these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. Revelation four introduces us to the place judgment comes from: God’s throne in heaven. God’s judgments are announced by a seven-sealed scroll, seven trumpets, seven signs, and seven bowls that pour out God’s wrath.ī. ![]() From Revelation 4 through 19 we have a section mainly concerned with God’s judgment upon the world preceding Jesus’ earthly reign, the period known as the “Messianic Woes” or the “Great Tribulation.”Ī. Depend on it, he has told us all about heaven that is necessary to bring us there and if he had revealed more, it would have served rather for the gratification of our curiosity than for the increase of our grace.” (Spurgeon) 3. If God wills us not to know, we ought to be satisfied not to know. We ought to be as content with that which is not revealed as with that which is. “It is very little that we can know of the future state, but we may be quite sure that we know as much as is good for us. The reality of heaven is even greater than the description we have of it. ![]() Also, we should keep in mind the nature of symbolism: the symbol is always less than the reality. As in the parables of Jesus, many of the details are merely descriptive and they are not necessarily intended to carry a special significance of their own. In the description of heavenly things, John uses symbols. The Bible has other important references to heaven, in passages such as Isaiah 6:1-8, Ezekiel 1, and in passages describing the Tabernacle, which symbolically describes heaven (Exodus 25-32 and 35-40).ī. Chapter four begins a heavenly perspective, looking down on the earth.Ī. Certainly this is a marking point for beginning the third division of Revelation 1:19. The phrase after this ( meta tauta in ancient Greek) in Revelation 1:19 is repeated twice in Revelation 4:1. Taking Revelation 1:19 as an outline of the book, chapter four begins the third section: the things which shall take place after this.Ī. The transition to the fourth chapter of the Book of Revelation.
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