The Bible In Paintings ✝️ Revelation, Chapter 4 – BOWING BEFORE GOD ON HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN ✝️

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Revelation 4 –
GOD’S THRONE
IN HEAVEN

֎ Featuring 31 Paintings, 2 Tapestries and 2 Windows ֎

REVELATION
«Chapter 4»

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying:

“Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord God Almighty,
who was, and is, and is to come.”

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"The Elders around the Throne"

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TED LARSON
"Throne of Heaven"

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"God's Throne - 24 Elders - 4 Living Creatures - Lamb "

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LIMBOURG BROTHERS
"Saint John on Patmos"

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HANS MEMLING
"John the Evangelist on Patmos and Visions of the Apocalypse"

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Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.”

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HENRY JOHN STOCK
"The Four and Twenty-Four Elders"

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns
before the Divine Throne"

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JACOB DE WET
"Twenty-four Elders before
God the Father and the Lamb"

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FIDELIS SCHABET
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GURY NIKITIN
"Adoration to the Throne"

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GEBHARD FUGEL
"Die Apokalypse"

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BERINGARIUS
"Worship of the Lamb"

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JOHN THORNTON
"Elders Casting"

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ALBRECHT DÜRER
"St John and the Twenty-four Elders in Heaven"

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ALBRECHT DÜRER
"Saint John before God and the Elders"

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New International Version ©1984, EMPHASES added
Masthead Painting: “GUEST” by Andrey Mironov

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[etabeta]

Beautifully presented and many favorites but I am so glad you used the Mironov portrait of Jesus as your opening.
Thank you, Dan, always.

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Never imagined I would replace the Kim as the masthead, until Someone supplied the inspiration yesterday.

[ReformedBeckite]

On the last picture(Stain glass window) Who is the fellow in the bottom left wearing a crown? Is it the King at that period of time and place where the cathedral was built.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and happy greetings to all!

A complex scene... agreement on what to portray, but how to do so? But the actual event must look something like these works.

Thank You Dan, for finding these, and bringing them to us.

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Wondered that myself. Yours is a good guess, methinks.

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the actual event must look something like these works.

Only, I suppose, much, much grander.

[Big Red Badger]

‘Much,MUCH GRANDER !’
GLORY to God in the Highest!
Lifting Up the Lamb of God
.
Hallelujah!

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Every aspect of God that I see or learn about is tremendously greater than anything I can anticipate or imagine.

[No name given]

Same for me!

[No name given]

Amen 🙏🏻!!!!

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Which leads inevitably to great anticipation of the day we shall join Him in His heaven.

[Big Red Badger]

The New Jerusalem will be our
New Home which some say is just above the
Old City.

[SisterK]

indeed
we cannot even comprehend the glory, majesty, perfection and brilliance of heaven

[SisterK]

agree

the opening Mironov portrait of Jesus standing at the door is a powerful image

sometimes we want to throw the door open wide and joyfully welcome Him with open arms

sometimes we are hesitant, fearful, or hard headed and this painting reminds us that He knows all our deepest thoughts and desires, He knows why we are reluctant to take the door off the hinges

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the glory, majesty, perfection and brilliance of heaven

You picked four wonderful qualities--yet however we imagine it, it will be so much greater, because HE will be there.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Great selection of one of my favorite chapters and scenes in the Bible. I’m glad to see Pat Marvenko Smith’s artwork here.

Great question about how close these depictions come to reality. My thoughts: 1) Far vaster than we can imagine. Picture the Grand Canyon filled with angels and plated with gold and adorned with jewels. 2) Far greater power emanating from God’s throne than we can imagine. The angels around God are the most powerful God created. They cower and quake before God. Lightning comes from the throne. My electrical engineer son pointed out, “Of course there’s lightning. Electricity goes from a greater source to a lesser source. So it comes from God to anywhere else.

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Just came across another Smith for Rev.13.

Hugh Ross has observed that once God has finally conquered evil, not only will He dispense with this earth but also he will no longer employ our current laws of physics:

* electromagnetism evidently will be unnecessary, because our light will emanate from the Godhead

* gravity, too, will no longer function, as evidenced by the New Jerusalem: under the current law of gravity, no object that large can be cubic, because gravity would have rounded its corners

[Forgiven_Sinner]

I agree with Hugh that the physical laws will change. We have no idea how they will change, so I can’t go along with his categorical statements about electromagnetism and gravity. But he might be right.

There is so much we don’t know about physics, let alone the spiritual realm, what we don’t know alone could explain everything.

Then there is Jesus’s statement, ‘Behold! I am making all things new!” An eighth day of creation, after the sabbath of rest that began with Adam and Eve. The phrase ‘all things’ is comprehensive, including all laws and physical constants.

Who knows? Aside from God.