Revelation 4:1-11

The book of Revelation links the past and present to the future. The first three chapters of Revelation deal with the past and the present. Beginning with chapter 4, God reveals the future —things which must be hereafter (v. 1). The hereafter is that which follows the sparing of the church at Philadelphia from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world (Rev. 3:10) and the hereafter is that which…