Revelation 4
v.1
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.”
v.5
From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
v.6
Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
The creatures in 4:6 strike the modern reader as exotic in the extreme, but in John’s day such images were not uncommon. John drew his description from two well-known passages in the Old Testament (Isa 6:1-2; Ezek. 1:4-21).
v.8
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “Hoy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.”
v.10
the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
v.11
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
Similar to Acts 17:28.
The emperor Domitian demanded worship as “our Lord and God” but never claimed the role of Creator. Jesus receives the same words of honor in John 20:28.