Revelation Chapter 4

The 7 churches that John is writing to were faced with:  false apostles (2:2), compromising false believers(2:6), economic opression which caused abject poverty (2:9), prison (2:10), death (2:10), religious minority status (2:13), compromising Chrisitians in their churches(2:14,15), exclusion from trade unions unless willing to practice pagan worship and sexual immorality  (2:20), the threat that tribulation was coming (3:10), the promise that the New Jerusalem was coming (3:12), the threat and the promise that Christ was returning (2:16, 3:11).

 

Should Revelation be understood with these things in mind?
 

What is the overall picture of chapter 4, taken as a whole?
 

Is John’s vision of  God’s throne helpful to these 7 churches?
 

How?
 

Who was the universe made for in view of chapter 4:11?


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