1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”[ † ]Ezekiel 1:1Revelation 19:11Revelation 1:10
2At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.[ † ]Revelation 1:101 Kings 22:19Isaiah 6:1Ezekiel 1:26Daniel 7:9Revelation 3:21Revelation 4:9 3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.[ † ]Matthew 5:8Revelation 21:11Genesis 9:13-17Ezekiel 1:28Revelation 10:1 4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.[ † ]Revelation 11:16Revelation 3:4-5
5From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven spirits of God.[ † ]Genesis 49:9-10Exodus 19:16Revelation 8:5Revelation 11:19Revelation 16:18Exodus 37:232 Samuel 7:12Revelation 1:4 6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.[ † ]Exodus 38:8Ezekiel 1:22Revelation 15:2Ezekiel 1:5Revelation 4:8Revelation 5:6Revelation 6:1-6Revelation 7:11Revelation 14:3Revelation 15:7Revelation 19:4 7The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.[ † ]Ezekiel 1:10Ezekiel 10:14
9And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,[ † ]Revelation 1:18 10the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:[ † ]Revelation 5:8-14Revelation 7:11Revelation 11:16Revelation 19:4