Revelation 4:2

Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

• ·        Throne set in heaven – the seat of honor, and authority, and judgment (MH).

• ·        One sat on the throne – That was God (MH)

Isaiah 6:1  In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple

Jeremiah 17:12  A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary

Revelation 4:1

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven.  And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you tings which must take place after this.”

• ·        We can know nothing of future events but what God is pleased to discover to us; they are within the veil, till God opens the door (MH)

• ·        To prepare John for the vision, a trumpet was sounded, and he was called up into heaven, to have a sight there of the things which were to be hereafter. (MH)

Isaiah 58:1  Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Exodus 24:1  Now He said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.

Revelation 3:22

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

• ·        It is a proverbial expression, implying that the highest attention should be given to what was spoken  (Barnes)

• ·        Anything serious, and of great importance, was delivered; and which required attention, and was not easily understood:  (Gills)

• ·        The demand for universal attention (MH)

Isaiah 48:16  “Come near to Me, hear this:  I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there.  And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit have sent Me.”

Zechariah 7:12  “Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets.  Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.