Revelation 6:1
And when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals I saw it, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as if in a voice of thunder, "Come."
Weymouth NT (1912)
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Acts 4:20As for us, what we have seen and heard we cannot help speaking about."
Revelation 5:1And I saw lying in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written on both sides and closely sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:3And when the Lamb broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come."
Revelation 6:7When the Lamb broke the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come."
Revelation 11:19Then the doors of God's sanctuary in Heaven were opened, and the Ark, in which His Covenant was, was seen in His sanctuary; and there came flashes of lightning, and voices, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Revelation 19:6And I seemed to hear the voices of a great multitude and the sound of many waters and of loud peals of thunder, which said, "Hallelujah! Because the Lord our God, the Ruler of all, has become King.
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 →