JOHN IS TAKEN TO HEAVEN, TO SEE THE EVENTS THAT WILL TRANSPIRE ON HEAVEN AND EARTH JUST BEFORE THE RETURN OF OUR LORD.
Revelation 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."
4:2 And immediately I was in the Spirit: and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.
GOD WAS THE ONE ON THE THRONE.
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 an emerald.
JASPER AND SARDINE = THE FIRST AND THE LAST STONE ON THE PRIEST'S BREASTPLATE. IT HAS TO DO WITH ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL AND EVEN THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD NATIONS ; GOD'S PRIESTLY LEADERSHIP SERVICE AND THE BRILLIANT LIGHT AROUND THAT THRONE.
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 (SYMBOLIC OF RIGHTEOUS ACTS); and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
THEY HAD OVERCOME.
TWENTY FOUR ELDERS = THE 12 PATRIARCHS AND THE 12 APOSTLES.
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.
4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal (IT WAS PURE): and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind (THE BEASTS ARE THE CHERUBIMS THAT GUARD THE MERCY SEAT).
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.
GOD USES SYMBOLS, HEBRAISMS, METAPHORS, FIGURES OF SPEECH TO BRING FORTH HIS MESSAGE.
MAKE A NOTE OF EZEKIEL 1:4.
THESE ARE THE VEHICLES THE CHERUBIM WERE IN.
4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes (SYMBOLIC, MEANING THEY WERE ALL SEEN PROTECTING THE MERCY SEAT) within: and they rest not day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, Which was, and is, and is to come."
THESE SPIRIT BEINGS, OR CHERUBIMS, DO NOT HAVE FREE WILL.
THEY WERE CREATED TO LOVE GOD.
AFTER THE FALL OF SATAN IN THE FIRST EARTH AGE, GOD WAS NOT GOING TO CREATE ANOTHER ANGEL WITH FREE WILL TO GUARD THE MERCY SEAT.
4:9 And when those beasts (CHERUBIM) give glory and honor and thanks to Him That sat on the throne, Who liveth forever and ever.
THESE SPIRITUAL BEINGS WERE PROGRAMMED TO LOVE AND OBEY GOD.
4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before Him That sat on the throne, and worship Him That liveth forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
4:11 "Thou art worthy, O LORD, to receive glory and honor and power: for Thou has created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created."
GOD HAS CREATED US FOR HIS PLEASURE.
HAVE YOU GIVING HIM PLEASURE LATELY?
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GOD BLESS
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