Finale Revelation and Imagination Daily Devotional-22
by David Joynt on June 27, 2021
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REVELATION 4:1-2 | 1 After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had 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 in heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne!
1 KINGS 22:19 | 19 Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.”
ISAIAH 6:1 | 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
The only way to truly understand the realities of the earth is from the perspective of heaven. John, in the Spirit, has a vision of God’s throne room. Like earlier prophets, Isaiah and Micaiah, he is drawn into a rapturous reality. The word “throne” is used forty times in Revelation, always as a symbol of God’s absolute authority. He is the Almighty, as we hear in 4:8, and rules from the throne (see Psalm 47:18). The word “heaven” has three distinct senses in the bible, determined by context, it can mean the sky, it can refer to the cosmic realm of order, the spiritual conflict, or it can be the place where God dwells, as it is here.
The door to heaven opens and since this verb is in a present continuous form, remains open, so that we can be given, through John, a vision of God’s presence and glory.
Of all the people you have known, who has had the most authority?
What is distinctive about God’s authority?
