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Revelation 4

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1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.” ✦ 2At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it. ✦ 3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne. ✦ 4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads. ✦ 5From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God. ✦ 6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back. ✦ 7The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. ✦ 8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” ✦ 9And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever, ✦ 10the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying: ✦ 11“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and came to be.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Rev 5 ·14Rev 7 ·9Rev 4 ·9Ezek 1 ·9Rev 1 ·8Rev 21 ·8Rev 19 ·6Ezek 10 ·6

Christ at the center

Revelation ends the story with the slain-yet-standing Lamb who is worthy, the Lion of Judah, the Alpha and Omega, the returning King who makes all things new and dwells with his people forever.

How Revelation 4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    Follows Paul's missionary journeys and the early church on location across the Mediterranean — free on Tubi, great for families.

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