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

[Hebrews 11:6]

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Revelation 4 –
GOD’S THRONE
IN HEAVEN

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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

[Hebrews 11:6]

I don’t think Hugh insists, only that Revelation’s descriptions suggest or seem to imply. In light of the coming eighth creation day, as you point out, it seems wise to be ready for God to show us in real time what He can do.

Inasmuch as we are made in His image, I find in myself a joy whenever I create that obviously mirrors His joy in creating; the satisfaction in standing back and admiring an accomplishment is one of the chief joys of living. I infer, therefore, that He may want to employ our creative urge collaboratively: perhaps He will delegate to us a part in His design of a new creation. Indeed, perhaps He is training and equipping us now to do so.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Inasmuch as we are made in His image, I find in myself a joy whenever I create that obviously mirrors His joy in creating; the satisfaction in standing back and admiring an accomplishment is one of the chief joys of living. I infer, therefore, that He may want to employ our creative urge collaboratively: perhaps He will delegate to us a part in His design of a new creation. Indeed, perhaps He is training and equipping us now to do so.

Highly likely. We'll find out in due time.