Revelation 4&5 Misunderstanding these chapters leads to misunderstanding the rest of the book. 2025

Rev 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."

John says it is "after these things" that he sees a door open in heaven. This means that after he was given the seven letters to the seven assemblies, he sees this door. John looked up and saw a door open. Keep in mind that this whole account is recorded in the words of a first century fisherman. He said he saw a door open and a voice like a trumpet call him up to heaven. Many conservative Christians say that this is a picture of the rapture of the Church at the beginning of the Great Tribulation. They say that the voice, "like the sound of the trumpet" is the same thing as the "last trumpet" of the resurrection. This is patently absurd. Regardless, it is still used to bolster this imaginative, non-Scriptural doctrine.
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