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Revelation 4
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Revelation 4 . 1
1 After 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.”TOSKRevelation 4:1
Revelation 4 . 2
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.IPEzekiel 1:26-28TOSKRevelation 4:2
Revelation 4 . 3
3 The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.TOSKRevelation 4:3
Revelation 4 . 4
4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.TOSKRevelation 4:4
Revelation 4 . 5
5 From 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.IPZechariah 4:2-10 Isaiah 11:2TOSKRevelation 4:5
Revelation 4 . 6
6 And 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.TOSKRevelation 4:6TTCherubim (Glorified Humanity)
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7 The 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.TOSKRevelation 4:7
Revelation 4 . 8
8 And 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!”IPIsaiah 6:3TOSKRevelation 4:8
Revelation 4 . 9
9 And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever,CRevelation 4:9-5:14TOSKRevelation 4:9
Revelation 4 . 10
10 the 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:CRevelation 4:9-5:14TOSKRevelation 4:10
Revelation 4 . 11
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.”CRevelation 4:9-5:14TOSKRevelation 4:11