You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author and teacher David Platt. Revelation four and five.

and five.

After this I looked and behold a door standing open in heaven

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.

At once I was in the spirit and behold a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the

throne and he who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Carnelian and around the

throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne

were 24 thrones and seated on the

thrones were 24 elders clothed in white garments with golden crowns on their

heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder and before the

throne were burning seven torches of fire which are the seven spirits of God and before

the throne there was as it were a sea of glass like crystal.

And around the throne on each side of the throne are four living creatures

full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature like a lion, the second

living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man and

the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight, and the four living creatures, each of them with six wings are full of eyes all around

and within.

And day and night they never cease to say, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.

And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne who lives forever and

ever. The 24 elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives

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