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Scene in Heaven

After this I looked, and behold, [a]a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a [war] trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 4:1 This chapter begins the revelation to John of future events.

Twenty-four [other] thrones surrounded the throne; and seated on these thrones were [a]twenty-four elders dressed in white clothing, with crowns of gold on their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 4:4 The twenty-four elders may indicate the twelve tribes of Israel together with the twelve apostles, representing redeemed humanity. Others say the twenty-four may be an angelic order of worship akin to the Aaronic priests.

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