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 view of a special futurity. This is a throne, not of judgment but of REVELATION. Through the entire series of seals the dark side of future history is indeed symbolized; yet is this dark side gloriously contrasted with the bright side in chapter 7. So that the chapters of the seals and of the sealing namely, the sixth and seventh are to be read as one contrastive picture.