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.
After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door!:
Ezek. 1:1;
Luke 3:21;
Acts 14:27;
Theme Heaven:
Revelation 3:12; 6:14; 8:10, 13; 9:1; 10:4-6, 8, 13; 11:6, 12; 12:1, 3-4, 7-8; 13:6, 13; 14:2, 6, 13, 17; 15:1, 5; 16:17, 21; 18:4-5, 20; 19:4, 17; 20:9, 11; 21:1, 10.
And the first voice which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said:
Revelation 1:10; 11:12.
Come up hither: And I will show you what must take place after this:
4:2. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [one] sat on the throne.
At once I was in the Spirit:
Revelation 1:10.
And lo, a throne stood in heaven:
Psalm 11:4; 103:19;
Isaiah 6:1;
Ezek. 1:26-28;
Daniel 7:9.
And one seated on the throne:
Revelation 3:21.
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.
And He who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian:
Exod. 24:10; 28:9-30; 39:10-13;
Ezek. 28:12-13; Mal. 3:17;
Revelation 21:11-21.
And round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald:
Gen. 9:13, 14, 16;
Ezek. 1:28; 10:1.
4:4. 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.
Round the throne were twenty-four thrones and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders:
1 Chron. 27:1-15;
Revelation 4:10; 11:16.
Clad in white garments with golden crowns upon their heads:
Revelation 4:10.
4:5. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
From the throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder: (WS 4:5 ‘Lightning’)
Deut. 32:41
Isaiah 29:6;
Jer. 51:16; (When he utters His voice…”)
Ezek. 1:13;
Revelation 8:5; 11:19; 16:18.
And before the throne burn seven torches of fire which are the seven spirits of God;
(Angels = ‘Spirits’ = ‘Lamps of Fire’.)
Zech. 4:2; 3:9;
Revelation 1:4.
4:6. And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, [were] four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
And before the throne there is as it were a sea of glass, like crystal:
Revelation 15:2.
And round the throne, on each side of the throne:
Psalm 99:1.
Are four living creatures: (WS ‘Cherubim’ and ‘Beasts’)
Ezek. 1:5-24; 10:1-22;
Theme Cherubim:
Gen. 3:24;
Exod. 25:18-22; 26:1, 31; 36:8, 35; 37:7-9;
Num. 7:89;
1 Sam. 4:4;
2 Sam. 6:2= 1 Chron. 13:6;
1 Kings 6:23-28; 7:29-36; 8:6-7;
1 Chron. 28:18
2 Chron. 3:7, 10-14; 5:7-8.
Full of eyes in front and behind:
Prov. 15:3;
Ezek. 10:12; 41:18-19;
(See also Ezek. 28:14-16; 41:18-19, “anointed cherubim“)
4:7. And the first beast [was] like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast [was] like a flying eagle.
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 a flying eagle:
1 Kings 7:29;
Cherubim: Ezek. 1:10; 10:14, 20;
Seraphim: Isaiah 6:2-6.
4:8. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about [him]; and [they were] full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings:
Isaiah 6:2-3.
Are full of eyes all round and within:
Ezek. 1:18; 10:12.
And day and night they never cease to sing: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!
Exod. 3:14-15; Revelation 1:4, 8.
4:9. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne:
Psalm 47:8.
Who lives for ever and ever:
Daniel 4:34;Revelation 10:6; 15:7.
4:10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
The twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever:
Revelation 5:8, 14.
They cast their crowns before the throne:
(See “Crowns of Life” 2:10; also “Kings and Priests” 1:5-6)
4:11. 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.
Singing “Worthy art thou, our Lord and God:
Revelation 5:9, 12.
To receive glory and honor and power:
For thou didst create all things: (WS ‘Without Form and Void’) And by thy will they existed and were created:
Gen. 1:1;
Job 28:23-27;
Psalm 33;
Prov. 8:22-35;
Jer. 51:15, 19;
Eph. 3:9;
Revelation 10:6; 14:7.