Revelation 4:8 NKJV

Sermon Bible Commentary - Revelation 4:8

Revelation 4:8 (with 1 John 5:20 ) Preached on Trinity Sunday. To-day we are called upon to keep the festival of revelation. Every other great festival of our Church commemorates a fact through which God has been pleased to teach men something of His purpose of love; Trinity Sunday encourages us to reflect for a brief space on that final truth, most absolute, most elementary, most practical, which gives unity and stability to all knowledge. The view of the Divine nature which it offers for... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Revelation 4:8

beasts beasts living creatures. (See Scofield " :-") God Almighty Jehovah of hosts. Isaiah 6:3 read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 4:1-11

Revelation chapter four begins with the Greek word "meta autos". And the first verse begins and ends with the same Greek words. The words literally from the Greek are "after these things". So as we come to this phrase, "after these things," our minds should flash back to chapter Revelation 1:19 ,where the book of Revelation was divided into three basic divisions. "Write the things which you have seen, the things which are, and the things which will be after these things", "meta autos". So... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 4:1-11

It is proper here to assist the reader with a key to the sublime visions about to open, which has been furnished by the profound study and observation of learned men in the churches of France, Germany, and England. The events of providence, in a succession of ages, have given holy men superior light in those studies, beyond what the fathers of the primitive church could possibly attain. After consulting those authorities, many of whose names have already been mentioned in the introduction to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 4:1-11

Revelation 4:1-11Behold, a door was opened in heaven.The open doorI. The open door.1. The place where the open door was seen: “In heaven.” This implies several important things.(1) The changed sphere of operation.(a) The “golden lampstands” represented Churches, not in heaven, but on earth.(b) The “seven stars” represented the pastors of those Churches.(c) Now the seer’s attention is called from the condition of things on earth to a condition of things in heaven. This is fruitful of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 4:7-8

7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him ; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Ver. 8. Full of eyes within ] To look to themselves also as well as to the flock, Acts 20:28 , lest while they preach to... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 4:8

six: Isaiah 6:2-1 Chronicles :, Ezekiel 1:6, Ezekiel 10:21, Ezekiel 10:22, 2 Timothy 4:2 full: Revelation 4:6, 1 Timothy 4:16 and they: Revelation 7:15, Isaiah 62:1, Isaiah 62:6, Isaiah 62:7, Acts 20:31, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9 rest not: Gr. have no rest Holy: Revelation 3:7, Exodus 15:11, Isaiah 6:3 Lord God Almighty: Revelation 1:8, Revelation 11:17, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 16:7, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 19:15, Revelation 21:22, Genesis... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 4:8

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Each of them hath six wings — As had each of the seraphim in Isaiah's vision. "Two covered his face," in token of humility and reverence: "two his feet," perhaps in token of readiness and diligence for executing divine commissions.Round about and within they are full of eyes. Round about — To... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 4:1-11

PART SECOND. THE THEOPHANIC APOCALYPSE. The Theophany in divine royal state, Revelation 4:1-6. The scene of the Apocalypse opens with a presentation of GOD enthroned, surrounded with his glorious Court of ministers, seated for the purpose of opening the predictive seals from which are presented the pictorial phases of the Messianic dispensation. He who as omnipresent fills all space, selects a point of manifestation, and puts on a semblance of finite personality in order to disclose a... read more