Revelation 4:1
After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a trumpet speaking with me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things which must be done hereafter.
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Exodus 19:24And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down: and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.
Exodus 34:2Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into mount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount.
Matthew 3:16And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.
Luke 3:21Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened;
Acts 7:56And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him.
Revelation 1:1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,
Matthew Henry on Revelation 4:1
In this chapter the prophetical scene opens; and, as the epistolary part opened with a vision of Christ ( ch. i. ), so this part is introduced with a glorious appearance of the great God, whose throne is in heaven, compassed about with the heavenly host. This discovery was made to John, and in this chapter he, I. Records the heavenly sight he saw, ver. 1-7 . And then, II. The heavenly songs he heard, ver. 8, to the end . Read the whole commentary →