Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox

priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started. and we're going to be picking up

in a book of Revelation, Apocalypse of St. John, chapter four, verse one. And we could do kind of a

quick catch-up this time because basically we've gone over the introduction and then we had the letters to the seven churches.

So we were at a very good break point.

So we don't have to do a lot of catch up.

But now here in chapter four, we're going to be beginning the book proper, which is really the beginning of the vision proper, right?

That St. John received and that he's writing down

and that the cover letters sort of that we just read were sort of attached to, right,

at the beginning. And it kind of begins with a segue into the vision proper. So I really don't

have to do a lot more introduction than that.

We'll start with Book of Revelation chapter 4, verse 1.

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven.

And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me saying,

come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this.

So this is sort of our entree into the vision proper.

And when it says that there's, I don't know what people are picturing, like the beginning

of the twilight zone with the door in space or what.

But this is literally talking about sort of a door open in the sky.

Right.

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