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NASB | Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a [war] trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." |
Bible Question: God has impressed my mind with this verse of Scripture from Rev 3:8 "Behold, I have set before you an open door . . ." Is this the same open door in Rev 4:1? What is this "open door?" |
Bible Answer: Greetings Mommapbs! Here's a quote from the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary that may shed a little more light on just what this "open door" is.. "opened--"standing open"; not as though John saw it in the act of being opened. Compare Eze_1:1; Mat_3:16; Act_7:56; Act_10:11. But in those visions the heavens opened, disclosing the visions to those below on earth. Whereas here, heaven, the temple of God, remains closed to those on earth, but John is transported in vision through an open door up into heaven, whence he can see things passing on earth or in heaven, according as the scenes of the several visions require." No, I do not believe that this "open door" in Rev. 4:1 is the same as that of 3:8, where the Lord is addressing the church of Philadelphia, saying that they have an open door 'to the kingdom', since they have kept His Word, and have not denied His name. In a sense, we all have an 'open door', since those who have not denied our Lord and kept His word will be saved. The "door" spoken of in 4:1 is most like the visions mentioned in Ezek. 1:1l; Acts 7:56 and 10:11, but not entirely the same. So in that case, John's vision of the "door" here in 4:1 is entirely a unique occurrence. Blessings to you, Nolan |