[Apologies for my multiple posts. Connection problems]
“This explains part of the problem. You ar4e under the (mistaken) impression that this is happening at the end times. This is occuring right now today. “
Everything after Revelation 4:1 is prophecy about the future...
4:1 After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: “Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things.”
There are quite a few scholars that read this as being part of the destruction of Jerusalem.