The Lamb Wins #6 - Heavens Throne Room

March 1, 2026                   Rev. Thomas M. Cox

• OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK

1. ORIGINAL MEANING: 

Writer- John

Document- a circular letter

Genre- apocalyptic literature

Audience- Christians in Asia Minor experiencing persecution under the Roman Empire

1. TIMEFRAME: c. 95 AD

1. SUMMARY: In The Lamb Wins!! (our study of Revelation), we will examine central themes of the Book such as the Throne of God, and how the slain and risen Lamb of God has overcome the dragon. We’ll come to see that Revelation is a call to God’s people to remain faithful to the Lord amidst times of trouble. We’ll learn to trust in the Lord and His Kingdom, not the kingdoms of this present world system.
   

2) TODAY’S PASSAGE- Revelation 4:1-11 * HEAVEN’S THRONE ROOM

• God is on the T________!
• The Description of the scene:
  

• Jasper & Carnelian

• Thunder & Lightning
  
• Emerald R__________
• 24 elders

• 7 T____________
• Crystal S___
• 4 creatures
  

• The D______ is O______!

3) TAKEAWAYS:

• HEAD: Know that this is a very Trinitarian text.

• HEART: Recognize that worship of our God is O___________: Feel moved  to enter in! 

• HAND: Sing songs about the H___________ & W_________________ of our God. 

“Cast your crown” before Him.

REVELATION 4:1-11 (ESV, emphases mine)

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a Throne stood in heaven, with One seated on the Throne. 3 And He who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4 Around the Throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. 5 From the Throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the Throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 6 and before the Throne there was, as it were, a sea of glass, like crystal.

And around the Throne, on each side of the Throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who is seated on the Throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the Throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the Throne, saying,

11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they existed and were created.”

Isaiah 66:1-2 Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for Me, and what is the place of My rest?

All these things My hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at My word.