Week 3 (Aug. 27, 2017) Preaching text: Revelation 6:1-8 and 7:9-17; accompanying text: John 14:1-4 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 5:9 + as textual variants attend the text. 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.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill.

This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Here begins the Revelation proper; and first, the fourth and fifth chapters set before us the heavenly scenery of the succeeding visions, and God on His throne, as the covenant God of His Church, the Revealer of them to His apostle through Jesus Christ.
Revelation 4:1.The former vision which John saw, contained in the foregoing chapters, represented the state of the church at the time when the vision was given, or the things that then were, (Revelation 1:19,) and gave suitable directions to the churches, with their pastors, to encourage their faith and patience, and excite them to constancy and perseverance.
5001 North Oak Trafficway Kansas City, Missouri 64118 Visit See commentary on Revelation 5:9. crowns of gold Study the bible online using commentary on Revelation 4 and more! Revelation 1 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon Verses 1-20 Revelation 1:1-2. 5:9 + as textual variants attend the text. He saw four-and-twenty seats round about the throne, not empty, but filled with four-and-twenty elders, presbyters, representing, very probably, the whole church of God, both in the Old-Testament and in the New-Testament state; not the ministers of the church, but rather the representatives of the people.

Revelation 4:1-11.VISION OF GOD'S THRONE IN HEAVEN; THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS; THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES. Recipients, Author and Time of Writing 22 "The Things Which Shall Be Hereafter," Revelation 4:1-22:5 A. The TR and MT texts indicate the elders are redeemed whereas the NU text does not. Revelation 12:3-4. See commentary on Revelation 3:4 and Revelation 3:5. 4. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 1. A. he present volume is the second of a series of works useful to Students and Ministers prepared by Mr. Spurgeon; and published at 2s. 6d.