Step inside God’s throne room in heaven and witness the majesty that awaits beyond the veil of earth’s final age.
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It’s a whopping 127 feet wide and stands at an eye popping 69 feet high. It boasts some of the worlds most complex camera and projection systems. It offers an exceptional audio experience. The 3D technology is second to none delivering the most unique visual audio experience to 1800 people in one showing.
The Traumpalast Leonberg Theater located in Leonberg, Germany:
- Is the home to the largest IMax Theater and Movie screen in the world.
- The audio visual experience it produces is like no other on this planet.
- If that wasn’t enough, it also has motion seats. These bring the viewers’ senses to a whole new level of entertainment.
The visual experience that John is about to embark upon in the next 18 chapters will likely make this IMax theater in Leonberg look like a small screen TV. It would seem like an average home TV in comparison.
Move over IMax and motion seats. John is about to be taken into heaven. He’s about to be temporarily raptured but his visions will have the universe as a back drop. This is no theater that Christ is about to take him to view. It’s much grander than that.
The first three chapters began as words coming from the mouth of Christ to John’s ears. John’s overwhelming experience thus far is about to become even more so.
It Begins In God’s Throne Room In Heaven
“After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” (Revelation 4:1)
(Verse 1) Notice how John begins this new section of Revelation as he’s about to enter God’s throne room in heaven. He starts with the words, “After this.” John is letting the reader know the order of things that he’s a witness to. First, Jesus gives John His final warning to the believers (churches), including those who consider themselves believers but have strayed from the faith.
Then, what begins after this is the revealing of the terrible events of the seven year Tribulation. The judgment and wrath that is going to come upon those who have chosen not to believe and follow Christ.
This section most appropriately begins in the throne room of the One who created all things. This is the Author of love, the Creator of the institution of marriage. The One who’s hands are on all things for the glory of His name. The God of heaven and earth.
A Glimpse Into Glory and Eternity
God’s throne room is the center of all things that exist. There are visions of it throughout Revelation. We see it 40 times in the entire book and 11 times alone in this chapter.
As John stands before his vision of the open door to heaven, he has no idea what’s about to happen to his body.
A Trumpet Sound Coming From God’s Throne Room
What John hears is no ordinary sound coming from the throne room. Since the time Moses was instructed by God to hammer out two silver trumpets, the trumpet has been used to gain the attention of God’s people. It began with the Israelites in the desert.
““Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out. When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.” (Numbers 10:2-3)
The sound of the trumpet will eventually culminate to the end of the age. It will be sounded for the purpose of Christ returning to gather (rapture) His church (believers) to Himself before the coming wrath of judgment upon the world.
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.”
(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
Aren’t those just some of the most beautiful words you’ve ever heard. “We will be with the Lord forever.” These words are words we want to know, understand, share and find comfort in. Especially as we see ourselves living in the times of the signs spoken of by Christ.
John Is Temporarily Raptured Up To Heaven
In similar fashion, the trumpet has been used throughout the history of Israel up to today. It will continue to be used until the rapture of the near future. John is also brought to attention and called to come visit God’s throne room by the trumpet.
John obviously has no power to make his way up to God’s throne room in heaven. But God not only has the power to draw him up to heaven, He’s going to do it in a way that very few men have experienced before him. It’s an experience reserved only for believers at a day and time in the near future unknown to us. Let’s take a look.
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Closing Reflection: “A Glimpse Beyond the Veil”
As John is caught up and ushered through that open door, he’s no longer bound by the limits of time or space. In that moment, he’s given a breathtaking glimpse into eternity — into God’s throne room in heaven, the very command center of all creation. Every word, every flash of lightning, and every roll of thunder that will soon echo through the chapters ahead finds its source right here.
This is where the judgments of the Tribulation will begin — not from chaos, not from the will of man, but from the sovereign authority of Almighty God. From His throne comes both mercy and wrath, salvation and justice.
And as we read John’s account, we’re reminded that what he saw was not just for him — it was for us. God wanted us to see the power, the holiness, and the unshakable rule of His throne before the world witnesses His final judgments.
So we’re left with this question: Are we living ready for eternity, or are we still clinging to what will soon pass away?
Because just as John was called upward, so too will Christ call His true church — and when that moment comes, there will be no time left to prepare.
🙏 Closing Prayer: “Ready for the Call”
Heavenly Father,
Your throne stands above every kingdom and every power, radiant in holiness and glory. As John glimpsed Your majesty in that moment beyond time, help us to see with those same eyes of faith. Remind us that all power, all justice, and all mercy flow from Your throne room in heaven.
Lord, stir our hearts to live ready—to listen for Your voice, to respond to Your call, and to walk in the light of eternity even now. Let the awe of Your presence shake us free from the grip of this world. May we be found faithful when the trumpet sounds, standing firm in the hope of Christ.
In Jesus’ holy and powerful name,
Amen.
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