Revelation 4:1, God Through A Window

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.”

//So begins the story of John’s Apocalypse … the book of Revelation. Many in John’s time imagined the world to be covered by a sky dome, and that God or the gods lived above the dome. John sees a window or a door in the dome, open and inviting him to enter heaven.

We know, now, that t...