Topical Teachings – Revelation 4

Revelation 4 Rev 4:1 After this I looked and see, a door was opened in the heavens: and the first voice which I heard was like a shofar talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will show you things that must be after this.  John is about to see the entire 70th week of Israel through the Spirit. This single person’s vision cannot be twisted into a corporate escape to heaven based upon a doctrine that no one in the history of the church had ever even believed until the last 200 years or so.  The idea of the rapture never even appears on the church radar until the late 18th Century and early 19th Centuries.  We can of course blame an Englishman John Nelson Darby.  So, if it’s not the rapture, “that must soon take place,” then what is it? The coming of YHWH’s Kingdom whereby the destruction of the powers of evil, of S.a.tan, and of death.  Tribulation has been prophesied for believers and it will come to pass:  Deut 4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to יהוה thy Elohim, and shalt be obedient unto his voice. Jn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. The purpose of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Exile and the Great Tribulation is to have the testimony of Yahusha –  OVER COMERS!  The door is: the door of revelation, revelation of what is to come, a heavenly vision.  In fact, this period isn’t even about a church but all 12 tribes of Israel, because it’s called: Jer: 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 2 And immediately I was in the Ruach: and see, a throne was set in the heaven, and One sat on the throne. 3 And He who sat there looked like jasper and a ruby stone: and there was a rainbow around the throne, in sight like an emerald.4 And all around the throne were twenty-four seats: and upon the seats I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.  The 24 elders are the officiating angels ministering to the 12 tribes. יהוה is portrayed as the brilliance of light reflected from precious stones.  Ps. 104:1 thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out  5 And out of the throne came lightning and thundering and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of vuvh.6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and all around the throne, were four creatures full of eyes before and behind. It’s almost a mirage of apocalyptic proportions of Exo. 24.  The sea of glass signifies the distance that separates יהוה in His holiness from the fallen evil world.  The sea belongs to the old fallen order and represents, just like the Red Sea, the barrier that which the redeemed must pass through in their exodus from the fallen world to their life in the redeemed world of יהוה.  Peter had to pass through the chaos: Matt 26:33  Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. He was confident he could: Matt 14: 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Yahusha. But he didn’t endure: Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. He couldn’t walk upon the seas once tribulation came: But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Yahusha, save me. The sea of glass like crystal is our time, our time of testing to see if we can endure and pass through as on dry land.  Yahusha saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Mar 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment;