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Revelation 4-5
…I will shew thee things which must be hereafter…
μετά ταῦτα
Outline of Chapter 4:
I.
JOHN IS CALLED UP TO HEAVEN (v. 1)
II.
JOHN SEES GOD’S THRONE (vv.
2-3)
III.
THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS (v. 4)
IV.
THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD (v. 5)
V.
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES (vv.
6-8)
VI.
THE WORSHIP OF THE LIVING CREATURES AND THE ELDERS (vv.
9-11)
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I.
JOHN IS CALLED UP TO HEAVEN (v. 1)
A. In Chapter 1:19 we are given a division of the book of Revelation.
There are
three parts.
1.
The things that were (the vision that John saw), 2. the things that
are (Chapter 2-3, the 7 historical churches in Asia and the 7 periods of time in
Church history in it’s entirety that each of the 7 churches represented) and, 3.
that which shall be hereafter (Chapter 4 begins this section of Revelation which
describes to us the things which shall be after the church age).
B. Chapter 4 begins with the words “after these things”.
What things?
After the
things of the church.
Chapters 2-3 discuss the things of the church, so after these
things.
We are moving on into the future into a period that we have not yet
arrived at historically.
The church age, that began on the day of Pentecost, will be
until the church is removed from the earth in the rapture and then shall happen
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all that John is going to describe to us in the these later chapters of Revelation.
C. “a door was open in heaven” v. 1
1.
In this verse it is possible that there is an indication of the rapture of the
church.
The experience that John had himself is perhaps a strong picture to
us of the rapture of the church.
Notice the wording that he uses…
a) The church of Philadelphia was told by Jesus that they would have an
open door that no man could shut.
We mentioned that this was most-likely
referring to an open door of evangelism but we did not mention that this
could be an open door to escape the judgment that will come to try all
those “that dwell upon the earth”.
b) The Church of Philadelphia represents that faithful church which kept the
word of God.
It is mentioned in the end of the letter to Philadelphia that for
their faithfulness Jesus will keep them from the hour of temptation which is
to try them that dwell upon the earth.
The true church will not be here for
that time of temptation which is to try all the earth-dwellers.
D. “…and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with
me…”
1.
This sounds much like other rapture passages in the Bible
a) 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first: Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever be with the Lord.”
b) 1 Corinthians 15:52
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.”
(1) Perhaps John’s experience doesn’t speak to us of the rapture of the
church but no one can deny that there is a parallel to be noticed
between this verse and other rapture passages in the Bible.
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E. “…Come up hither…”
1. “Though there is no authority for connecting the rapture with this expression,
there does seem to be a typical representation of the order of events, namely,
the church age first, then the rapture, then the church in heaven.
Though the
rapture is mentioned in letters to two of the churches (cf.
2:25; 3:11), the
rapture as a doctrine is not a part of the prophetic foreview of the book of
Revelation.
This is in keeping with the fact that the book as a whole is not
occupied primarily with God’s program for the church.”
2. From the end of chapter 3 until chapter 22:16 the church is no where
mentioned in the book of Revelation save only when the church is referred to
as the bride of the lamb in chapter 19:7.
That indicates to us very strongly that
the things in Revelation from this point on (for the most part) do not have an
application to the church.
3.
One of the big problems in interpreting this book is trying to fit the church in a
place that it truly isn’t suppose to be.
II.
JOHN SEES GOD’S THRONE (vv.
2-3)
A. “…a throne was set in heaven…”
1.
The first thing John sees in heaven is the throne of God.
There is a throne set
in heaven apart from and more glorious and powerful than any and all earthly
thrones or powers that be.
God alone is sovereign and the fact that his throne
is “set” in heaven should give us great comfort when we see the powers in
this world causing so much chaos.
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