Nothing on this earth, nothing is anything even like heaven.

You and I could spend the next decade

with nothing but imaginary thoughts

about this paradise of God and we would come up so short it would be

wasting our time even to imagine. you.

Do you believe that heaven is a real destination, or is heaven more than a fictional place.

Perhaps it's only a metaphor for eternity beyond the grave.

Well today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall introduces the next message in his study of

revelation called Unveailing the End.

In this portion of our study, we'll receive a qualified glimpse, a true picture of heaven.

Yes, it's a real place. So what can we anticipate? Well in Revelation Chapter 4, John

paints a picture of this magnificent destination. Chuck titled his message,

Standing Before God's Awesome Throne.

The passage we're looking at in Revelation chapter 4 is one of the classic references in all the Bible to heaven.

And we'll be focusing on John's experience when the Lord invited him to come up there and to record what he saw, please look on as I read for you this fourth chapter of the

revelation.

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,

come up here and I will show you what must take place after these things.

Immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne was standing in heaven and one sitting on the throne.

And he who was sitting was like a Jasper stone and a sardius in appearance.

And there was a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance.

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