Commentary on revelation 4th chapter

Revelation 4:1

After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

4:1-8 After the Lord Jesus had instructed the apostle to write to the churches the things that are, there was another vision.

The apostle saw a throne set in heaven, an emblem of the universal dominion of Jehovah. He saw a glorious One upon the throne, not described by human features, so as to be represented by a likeness or image, but only by his surpassing brightness.

These seem emblems of the excellence of the Divine nature, and of God's awful justice.

Commentary on revelation 4th chapter 1

The rainbow is a fit emblem of that covenant of promise which God has made with Christ, as the Head of the church, and with all his people in him. The prevailing colour was a pleasant green, showing the reviving and refreshing nature of the new covenant.

Four-and-twenty seats around the thron