A Glimpse into Heaven
Revelation 4After these things I looked, and there was a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “You come up here, and I will show you the things that must happen after this.”
Immediately I was in the Spirit. And look! There was a throne in heaven, and someone was sitting on it. The one seated there resembled a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance. There was a rainbow around the throne that resembled an emerald in appearance. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and twenty-four elders were sitting on the thrones dressed in white clothes, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning and sounds of thunder. Seven lamps of fire were burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, resembling crystal. In the middle of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a human like face, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Each one of the four had six wings full of eyes around and within. Day and night, they do not have an intermission from saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who sits on the throne and worship the one who lives for ever and ever, and they throw their crowns before the throne, saying, “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive the glory, the honor, and power, since you created all things, and through your will, they existed and were created!”