August 30, 2021: SOAP #4288:  Ezekiel 8-11; Revelation 4  (Re-worked SOAP from 122709)

SCRIPTURE:  Revelation (NIV) 4:1 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.”

OBSERVATION: John had just witnessed the revelation of Jesus in the middle of the golden candlesticks. (Chapter 1)   There he was given a message for each of the seven churches in the province of Asia. (Chapters 2&3)   Now He hears the word “Come…”    

I am already here.  “Come” to where I am.  The same One John had just seen in the middle of the candlesticks was already in the future.   He would now be receiving a whole new revelation of Jesus.   

As we read the rest of the chapter, we see that John received a revelation of throne in heaven and the one sitting on it!

APPLICATION:  In the midst of the unknown, or the change, or the storm, it is good to hear the word, “come.”  It speaks of presence, the presence of the one speaking.  It is saying, “Come to where I am.”  It is saying, “Come with me.”  It is saying, “Come…and I will show you.”  

As I look back on my life, I can say that each “Go” I heard from the Lord was really a “Come.”  He has never sent me to a place He was not already there!  He has never sent me alone, but always gone with me. 

PRAYER: Lord, Your command to go is really Your promise to go with me.  When you say “come,” you are assuring me that you are already at the place to which you are leading me.  Lord, I want a new revelation of You, so I will enter the open door.  Amen

Pastor Leon
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