Revelation 6:1
And I saw when the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures speaking, like a voice of thunder, Come.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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Acts 4:20for we are not able not to speak those things which we have seen and heard.
Revelation 5:1And I saw upon the right hand of the one sitting upon the throne a book having been written within and without, having been sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:3And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come.
Revelation 6:7And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come.
Revelation 11:19And the temple of God was opened in the heaven and the ark of His covenant was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a great hail.
Revelation 19:6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah! because the Lord our God Omnipotent reigned.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 6:1
The book of the divine counsels being thus lodged in the hand of Christ, he loses no time, but immediately enters upon the work of opening the seals and publishing the contents; but this is done in such a manner as still leaves the predictions very abstruse and difficult to be understood. Hitherto the waters of the sanctuary have been as those in Ezekiel's vision, only to the ankles, or to the knees, or to the loins at least; but here they begin to be a river that cannot be passed over. The visions which John saw,… Read the whole commentary →