Revelation 4 1-7

BooK of Revelation

                a paraphrased study   

1 - After this I looked, and behold, a door open in heaven! And the first voice [greek phóné] which I had heard earlier speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here (John) and I will show you what will [dei - necessarily inevitably] happen.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated upon the throne. 3 And he who sat there was in radiance like fiery gems, and around the throne was a rainbow with the appearance of an emerald. 4 Around the throne [thronos - throne. seat] were twenty-four thrones [thronos] and seated upon them were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. {Crowns of Life? Gold represents God’s Spirit/Presence.} 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. And before the throne were seven [hepta] torches of fire burning brightly, which is the sevenfold (full, complete) spirit of God. 6 And before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. {We shall all be pure as crystal. Truly. ..Life as we presently know it, is an unavoidable, but all important contrast.} [Seven - the Hebrew/Old Testament word for seven is shaba - which is from a root word that means to swear or take an oath, and is often associated with the number seven, indicating the completeness or binding nature of an oath {! Isaiah 45:23 - “I have sworn [shaba - to seven oneself, swear on oath] by my own name” (there being none higher) “I have spoken the truth, and I will never go back on my word, every knee will bend to me, and every tongue will declare - allegiance - to me.” Romans 3:4 - “If every person be false, yet God is true! As it’s written, "That You (God) may be justified in Your words, and will prevail in Your being judged." Part of that “8th ‘day’” (millennium, Rev.20.)

     And in the midst of, and all around the throne, on each side of the throne, were four large living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second like an ox, the third with the face of a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. {Creation! ..It’s not so much an issue of what God, wonderful God, hAs created, but what he iS creating. Just HOW do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? He iS life, so lives through all that ever occurs and endowed thinking/reasoning/logos to mankind and angelkind anyway!}

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