Let's open our Bibles this morning
again to a very familiar, familiar passage of scripture. I keep
coming back to it, preach to it, from it, I can't tell you
how many times, and it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
Revelation chapter 4. Revelation chapter 4. If you want to understand the
book of Revelation, begin with the opening words of verse 1
in chapter 1. It is called the Revelation of
Jesus Christ. This is not a book about prophecy. It's not a book about end time
events. It's not a book about things
going on in the world around us. Specifically, not that, it
is the revelation of Jesus Christ. The revelation is given in seven
distinct visions that God the Holy Spirit gave to his servant
John when he was in the Isle of Patmos, exiled because of
the word of God. Now, when you look at those seven
visions, read them each by itself. Each by itself. If you were trying
to look at negatives from a camera, I don't even know where they
do that anymore now. Cameras still got, they have negatives of cameras?
I don't know anything about that stuff. But if you were looking at negatives,
and you're trying to make out what they were, you had seven
of them. You got one here, and let's see
now, let's put this one over here, and put this on top of
that, and put this on top of that, and pretty soon you can't
see a frazzling thing. Because you mixed the pictures
all up. And that's what most people do
with this book, especially with the book of Revelation, is they
mix everything up and try to figure out how this piece fits
here, this piece fits there, and this piece fits there. Each
of these seven visions begins with the first advent of our
Lord Jesus and takes us all the way through this gospel age to
the glorious second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Each vision
has the same message Each vision is given for the same purpose
Read them carefully you'll find that that John was told by these
visions words of encouragement for God's Church in every day
in every age in every place in this world the vision testifies
of the sure triumph of Sure triumph of Christ and his church by the
gospel We're gonna win We're gonna win because the Savior
already has All right, let's read Revelation chapter 4 beginning
at verse 1 Revelation chapter 4 beginning at verse 1 after
this after this after he had seen the Lord Jesus walking in
the midst of the seven churches and giving his warnings to those
seven churches in chapters 2 and 3. The Lord Jesus always walks
in the midst of his church. And he always holds his servants,
the angels of the churches, in his right hand. And he always
directs the affairs of his church. And these seven churches that
were in Asia Minor are given here by the Spirit of God as
pictures of God's church in this world at any place in every age. And he warns us. He warns us.
Don't follow the example of Ephesus. Don't ever abandon your first
love. All children of God seek, seek
by God's grace. Seek fresh tokens of grace and
mercy and love from Christ. and pray that the Lord God will
ever draw out your heart to Christ in love and faith and devotion. Don't ever rest on yesterday's
experience or yesterday's blessings or yesterday's mercies. I need
to know him today. I need Christ to make himself
known to me now. And I need to worship him now,
and that I can do only as he draws me and graciously turns
me to himself. Don't ever be content with yourself. Don't ever be content with half-hearted,
cold indifference toward God. Oh my God, forgive my hard heart. Forgive my neglect of my Redeemer. Forgive my neglect of your grace
and your mercy. After this, after the Lord said,
be thou faithful unto death. Oh God, make me faithful to the
end. Give me grace to devote myself. to Christ in his service more
utterly today than I ever have, that I may serve him more faithfully
with my last breath than with any other. And be warned about
Balaam and the Nicolaitans, he said to the Church of Pergamos. I suppose there's not a false
prophet mentioned in Scripture more frequently by name than
Balaam. Would any of you care to tell
me what Balaam said that was wrong? What did Balaam say that was
wrong? I can't find anything in his book. Balaam said it was
wrong. Nothing. Nothing. But it did something. He taught
the children of Israel to mix the worship of Jehovah with the
worship of their own hands. Idolatry throughout this book,
idolatry throughout this book is called worshiping the works
of your hands. the works of your hands. Balaam
said you don't have to abandon God. You don't have to abandon
the word of God. You don't have to abandon the
law of God. You don't have to abandon the worship of God. Just
don't, just don't push all this other stuff away. You bring it
together and everybody get along just fine. Beware. Beware. You seek to find a way
to accommodate ungodliness and idolatry, ungodliness and filthy
self-righteous religion. You seek to find a way to accommodate
the worship of God and the worship of your hands. You seek to find
a way to accommodate the worship of your will and the worship
of God and you will have abandoned God and his gospel altogether. Beware of the Nicolaitans, the
Nicolaitans. If Mr. Gill is correct, the Nicolaitans
were people who, in the practice of religion, promoted vile, ungodly
behavior. Beware of that. I got a, I get
them every week, just about. Note last week some fella accused
me of being a base, crass, vile antinomian. And I thought, I
must be preaching pretty good. But don't ever, don't ever behave
in such a way that the accusations are just. Don't do it. You who are gods,
honor God. And walk before men blamelessly.
I don't mean by that that you walk before men perfectly. I
mean by that that you live in such a way that men have no justifiable
reason to blame the God you worship for anything. Live blamelessly. He said to Thyatira, where the
depths of Satan works religion is. That which you have already,
hold fast till I come. Keep my works and beware of Jezebel. Jezebel, that woman who calls
herself a prophetess. And I could say a lot about Jezebel,
but we live in this day where folks are promoting all kinds
of foolishness in the name of God. And one of the most foolish
things is this notion of female preachers. And we have more than
that, more than that. It needs to be said. This notion
that women are to lead and rule the church of God, lead and rule
the house of God, lead and rule the nation, and lead and rule
your house. Women, that's not your place.
That's not your place. Wives are to be obedient to their
husbands and devote themselves to their families and live for
the family's good. Well, man, you act like you were
born in another century. No, I just follow what this book
says and trying to get you to do so as well. Beware Jezebel
Sardis. He says you have a name that
you live, but you're dead. Brother Clay, that's just fact
with regard to me most of the time. Oh, how dead, how empty, how
cold, how barren my heart. Be watchful. Strengthen what
remains. Remember, remember. Remember
me, remember my work. He says to Philadelphia, hold
fast that which you have so that no man takes your crown. And
he warns us of this Laodicean lukewarmness and indifference.
After this, after all this, after all the counsel of verses 18
and 19 and 20, he says, I counsel thee to buy of me gold. Oh, children of God, come now
to God. And buy of him gold, the gold
of his grace. Try it in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich. And buy of me again white raiment,
perfect righteousness. Buy from my hand, without money,
without price, all the gold of my grace, and all the perfect
righteousness of my obedience, that thou mayest be clothed.
and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear, and anoint thine
eyes with eyesalve. Constantly put the eyesalve of
the gospel on your eyes that thou mayest see. Look at verse
20. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my
voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with
him and he with me. The Lord Jesus stands at the
door of every gospel church as we're assembled in his name to
worship him. He stands at the door, right
here this morning, and knocks. And this is what he says. He
says, Pastor, if you'll open the door to me, I'll come and
sit down right there beside you, and I'll eat with you, and you'll
eat with me. Ain't that something? Yes, I'm open to me and you won't
meet him my name in vain Open to me and you will worship me
Open to me and I will come and sit down and suck with you and
you with me. We don't to him that overcometh
Will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame
and him set down with my father in his throne I all right now
let's look at this chapter where we are allowed to enter in to
the holy of holies allowed to enter into heavenly glory and
worship God our Savior on the throne in the light of the clear
revelation he gives in these two chapters now when we get
into these two chapters and start to read you're going to be inclined
to think to yourself, well, now we're seeing things the way God
sees them. I'm going to tell you a secret. This is hard to
get. This is de-doctrine. I mean this,
this is profound. Are you ready? However God sees
it, that's the way it really is. However, God sees things. That's
the way it really is. Now the way you see it may be
messed up. The way I see it probably is messed up. But the way God
sees it, that's the way it really is. Alright? First, let's look
at what John says he saw. I saw a door. After this, I looked
and behold, there was a door opened in heaven. There's a door opened in heaven,
by which sinners like you and me may come into the holy of
holies, where God dwells in His glory. And I know who the door
is. Our Savior said, I am the door. I am the door. A door opened. Opened not by man, but opened
by God. Heard I heard a voice the first
voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me The gospel is compared to a trumpet
a jubilee trumpet a trumpet talking with me I'm not a musician never
was I like to listen to music like listen to good music jazz
or I can't say I like classical music. I stomach it some. But I like listening to music,
but I don't know anything about it. Maybe one of the reasons
is I've never heard a trumpet sound like it was talking to
me. I've just never heard one sound like it was talking to
me. Ah, but here's a trumpet that men, when they hear it,
you remember that Jubilee trumpet? Do you know how many times a
man might hear that trumpet in his life? Every now and then sometimes
a man might hear that trumpet in his life. The only possibility
is once. Not every 50 years. But when
a man heard that trumpet, he knew exactly what it said. When
he heard that trumpet, he knew freedom is here! Christ has come
to set sinners free. And the trumpet's talking to
me. And this trumpet Sounds from this door open in heaven. It
says come up here Come in and welcome come up here, and I will
show thee things which must be hereafter look at verse 2 and
immediately I was in the spirit as soon as I heard the voice
of the gospel I heard God speaking to me by this gospel trumpet
and I heard him show me that door that's open in heaven and
said come up here immediately I was in the spirit I don't know
what old John means by that but I'll tell you what I know as
soon as you hear God speak you're in the spirit you're not in the
flesh but in the spirit you live from now on in the spirit and
behold a throne Now the first thing a man sees,
the very first thing a woman observes when they come to know
the living God is this. God sits on the throne. That's not the last thing or
the second thing or the third thing. The very first thing you
see is God on his throne. Look what it says here. Behold,
a throne was set, fixed, established, anchored down in heaven, and
one sat on the throne. When things bother me, and it
doesn't take much to bother me, when I get troubled by things
like having a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, that bothers me. That bothers
me. Wouldn't you like to go to the
polls and vote sometime, but you haven't hold your nose closed,
shut your ass. But that bothers me. Oh, isn't it good to see
God sitting on his throne. God sits on his throne. He never paces heaven. He never
reads his hands. He's sitting on his throne. Nothing ever bothers him. Nothing
ever disturbs him. Nothing ever upsets him. God
sits. If I had believed him, I'd sit
still to him. You too. But you have to believe
him. A throne sits in heaven. And one sat on a throne. Sat
on a throne. Verse 3. And he that sat was
to look upon like a jasper, bright and glorious. assorted red redstone
bright glorious redstone, and there was what's this a rainbow
round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald and the
stone Upon which Judy's name was engraved that stone was an
emerald Judy's name was engraved on the high priest breastplate
with this emerald so that Here sets one upon the throne, a throne
fixed in heaven, surrounded by a rainbow. I think I know what
that is. You remember when God destroyed
the world by flood? And he told Noah, he said, Noah,
I'll set my bow in the sky. And when you see the bow, you
remember my covenant right now, I'll never destroy this world
like this again. And I can picture Brother Noah. I can picture Brother
Noah. His first time he saw a cloud
forming in the sky. Can't you imagine? A little cloud
forming over here. Uh-oh. What we're going to do
now before he burned up all the art for firewood? What are we
going to do? And it came a downpour. I mean,
it just came a downpour. But then quit all of a sudden
and you saw a bow in the sky. Oh, that's right. God said he
wasn't going to do it. God said he wouldn't destroy
it again. God made a covenant. Ordering all things insure for
our souls which surrounds his throne. That means that God does
nothing except according to that covenant. God does nothing, nothing
ever comes to pass except in accordance with that covenant.
And this rainbow, this rainbow round about the throne, inside
is like an emerald. That rainbow has Judah's name
on it. That rainbow has the name of
God's elect, his people on it. Look at verse 24, or verse 4
rather. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats. I
wonder how many people are there? Four and twenty elders. Just
as many people as there are seats. Just as many people as there
are places. No vacancies and no overcrowding. 4 and 20 seats for 4 and 20 elders. Well, what's this wondrous mystery?
The whole Church of God, the whole Israel of God, all gods
elect, the whole 144,000 described in the book of Revelation chapter
7. These are all seated with crowns on their heads. They were
clothed with white raiment, clothed with perfect righteousness, and
they had on their head crowns of gold. crowns of gold. I know here in this part of West
Virginia, as in where we live in Kentucky and where the clay
lives up in New Jersey and wherever other folks live, there are people
everywhere who talk about getting to heaven and getting their crowns.
Boy, are you going to have any crowns when you get to glory?
You going to have any crowns? Well, he'll get them just by
the skin of his teeth. What are the crowns when you get there?
If you get there, you're gonna have crowns. Every crown God
can give. And that crown is Christ himself,
a diadem of beauty, a crown of glory for his people. Look at
verse 5. And out of the throne proceeded
lightnings and thunderings and voices. Mysterious things come out of
the throne. lightnings, thunderings, voices,
things that confused men, things that seemed to have no order.
And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne,
perfect holiness. Seven speaks of perfection, completeness,
which are the seven spirits of God. This perfect, holy being,
God the Holy Spirit, who governs everything for Christ as our
comforter and our mediator. Verse six, and before the throne
there was a sea of glass, likened to crystal. And in the midst
of the throne, around about the throne, were four beasts, full
of eyes before and behind. These four beasts, these four
living creatures, We see numerous places in scripture. You find
them in Ezekiel chapter 1. You find them in Isaiah, those
seraphim that Isaiah saw. You see them here again. These
four living creatures, these four beasts, represent gospel
preachers, the angels of the churches, God's messengers to
his people in this age and in every age. They are men gifted
of God, sent of God, promised by God to his church. to feed
his people with knowledge and understanding. Gospel preachers
are men sent and gifted of God to feed you his people with knowledge
of this word and understanding of your need. Knowledge of this
word and understanding of God and his ways. Not knowledge that's
acquired by going to right schools and getting the right degrees. Now, please don't misunderstand
me. A pastor does his work in the study. If he won't study,
he's got no business trying to preach. Any pastor who doesn't
study ought not be pastor, any pastor. Pastors must diligently
study, but our knowledge is not acquired by our diligence. It's
God's gift. And our understanding is not
acquired by our natural abilities. It is God's gift. And a man who
is called of God is gifted of God to understand the book. I recall, Roland, years ago,
I was preaching over at Dingus with Brother Hap. And Henry came
over, and Hap asked him to read scripture and read Isaiah chapter
50. There were a bunch of folks asking there. And after the services
were over, Ronnie Lewis said to Henry, he said, he said, Brother
Henry, Henry was writing his commentary on Isaiah at the time,
he said, he said, how did you get that out of there? He said,
I've read that and read that and I never saw it and you got
it done or not, right there it is. Henry said, that's the reason
you paid me the big bucks. What he was saying is that's
what I'm here for. And you get it done, well there
it is. There it is. I don't see it. How come? Because God gave you
a pasture to feed you with knowledge and understanding. Look at verse
7 how these living creatures, these beasts are described. The
first beast was like a lion. Like a lion. Brother Clay Curtis
is not quite as big as me. You might not have observed that. But just as bold. Just as bold. How's that? He's called of God. And God makes his servants like
a lion. And the second beast is like a calf. Strong, strong. And the third beast had as it
were, had a face as a man. Compassionate. And the fourth
beast like a flying eagle soaring in the heavens. That's a picture
of every faithful gospel preacher. He's a man of boldness, of strength,
of compassion, soaring into the heavens, seeking the glory of
God, and seeking God's glory for you. Look at verse 8. And
the four beasts had each of them six wings, just like Isaiah described
them, representing humility, readiness to do God's business,
had six wings about him, and they were full of eyes, full
of wisdom within. And they rest not day and night. They rest not day and night. Resting day is another day. They
labor in the word and in the doctrine for the glory of God,
saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is
and is to come. Holy is our triune God, the eternal
one, who was and is and is to come. And these living creatures,
these preachers of the gospel, the angels of the churches, lead
God's saints to worship Him. Look at verse 9. And when those
beasts give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sat on the
throne, who liveth forever and ever. Now watch this. When those
beasts give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the
throne, the four and twenty elders fall down before Him. When the preacher gives glory
to God, the people worship God. They fall down before Him, they
sat on the throne and worship Him that liveth forever and ever.
And what did they do with their crowns? What did they do? They
cast their crowns before the throne. You see, the crowns,
the reward that God's people have of glory in Christ Jesus,
the gift of God and we Constantly ascribe the whole work to him
and we cast the crown he puts on our head and his feet say
not unto us Not into us, but it is I named you glory for thy
mercy and for thy truth's sake He chose us. He redeemed us.
He called us. He preserves us. He brings us
to glory. He gets the glory We we see him
as he is and we say no flesh of glory in his presence. He
that glorieth with him glory in the Lord will cast our crown
before the throne because we have a deep, deep sense of wonder
and gratitude of sincere humility as his own. We'll cast our crown
before him and do so with gladness because we love him intensely. Brother Clay rightly said, we
say little about our love here. You talk about how much they
love the Lord, you can bank on it, they don't know what they're
talking about. I'm a man greatly loved. I'm afraid
I don't know much about love in return. but soon soon I'll love him as I ought a genuine sincere deep intensity
so that we cast our crowns before him who alone is worthy of praise
and honor and glory say look at verse 11 thou art worthy O
Lord to receive glory, and honor,
and power. For thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and were. Isn't it amazing he
puts that word are in there? That's present tense, Marvin.
I make light and I create evil For that pleasure they are and
were created everything that is Was created by God for his
pleasure including you Everything you belong to him now read on
just as if there wasn't a chapter division look at verse 5 chapter
5 verse 1 and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne
a book written Here's the triune God seated on his throne with
a book written in his hand. It's written within and on the
back side and sealed with seven seals. Try to get a picture of
it. Here's a book. One of those, you used to see
those huge books. I've seen some just about the
size of this, the top of this pulpit here and about 10 inches
thick. Those old huge books. huge book
and it's written all over inside and out but it's sealed up got
seven seals on it and we read about this book here he said
I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book
written within and on the back side sealed with seven seals
And I saw a strong angel proclaim with a loud voice, who is worthy
to open the book and loose the seals thereof. Who has the ability
to open this book, show us what it says, to loosen the seals
and fulfill this word. And no man under heaven or in
earth, neither under the earth was able to open the book. neither
to look thereon. Nobody, nobody could pry into
the wisdom and purpose of God Almighty from everlasting. And
I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read
the book neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto
me, wipe your eyes, John. Oh, no need to cry! Behold, the
Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed
to open the book and to loose the seals thereof. There is one
who's called the Lion. The Lion. The Lion is the king of the beast. The Lion always has his way. The lion always conquers. The lion goes after his prey
and always gets it. This lion does. This is the lion
of the tribe of Judah. He's the one who comes from the
root of David and he is that one who is the root of David. This is Christ, David's Lord
and David's son. He's prevailed. He's prevailed
to open the book. That is, he's prevailed to have
the right He has the right to open this book. And he has the
ability to fulfill this book. And he's earned it! Because he's
prevailed as our mediator and redeemer. Now look at verse 6. And see the Lamb. And I beheld,
and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in
the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb. stood a lamb. The picture of this throne is
called the throne of grace. You have the first picture of
it back in the book of Exodus. God commanded Moses. He said,
in building the tabernacle, in the holy of holies, you're going
to put a special piece of furniture. It's called the Ark of the Covenant.
Inside that will be Abraham's rod that budded, and the golden
pot that had manna, and the broken tables of the law. And over top
of that ark is a mercy seat, a mercy seat of pure gold. And
at each end of the mercy seat are cherubs facing one another,
their wings touching each other, looking down on that ark, on
that mercy seat. Always with their eyes on the
mercy seat. And Aaron, once a year you come in with the blood of
the Paschal Lamb and sprinkle that mercy seat with blood. Blood of the Lamb! The Passover
Lamb! And when I see the blood, God
told Israel, I will pass over you. And he told Moses, he said,
now when that's done, I will meet you on the mercy seat between
the cherubs. Come up here then. There's a
door open, come on in. Come on in. Come on in up here
to the very throne of God. And here is a lamb. A lamb who
is a lion. Lamb who is a lion he's prepared
to open the book and watch him now Rising up right out of the
midst of that mercy seat throne Rising up right out of the midst
of the throne of grace Dominion and power over which by which
God rules over all things in this world is a lamb standing
Not just any lamb. This is a lamb as It had been
slain The lamb who died in our stead. The lamb was sacrificed
for his people, having seven horns. Seven horns. I was raised a city boy, but
I've been living in the country most of my life. And I'll tell
you what I've discovered. I'll tell you what I've discovered.
Usually, animals with horns get their way. They generally get their way.
Here is the lamb. as it had been slain, standing.
And it got seven horns, perfect power. And it got seven eyes,
which are the seven spirits of God, perfect wisdom and knowledge
and understanding, sent forth into all the earth, verse seven.
And it came and took the book out of the right hand of him
that sat on the throne. I love this. He didn't come and
beg for the book. He came and took the book. Because
he's prevailing. He has the right to take the
book. Ask of me and I'll give you the heathen for your inheritance,
our Lord said to his son. And the Lord Jesus, the Lamb
of God, comes and takes the book. And he said, let me show you
things that must be. Let me show you what I have done
and am doing and shall hereafter do. I'll open the seals of the
book. And that book and the opening
of the seals Our Lord Jesus fulfilling all God's purpose in providence
look at verse 8 And when he had taken the book The four beasts
and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb having
every one of them hearts and golden vials full of odors Which
are the prayers of the saints? Here's the Son of God our Redeemer
he comes takes the book takes the book out of the hand of him
and sets on the throne and he starts to open the book and the
four and twenty elders and the living creatures have hearts
in their hands and sing praise to him and these
odors are the prayers of the saints what am I going to say? I don't know much about prayer,
I don't pretend to. But I know this. When we pray,
Brother Clay, we want our Father which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name. No matter what I ask, this is
what I want. I want you to glorify yourself.
No matter what words come out of my mouth. No matter what pains
force me to say things that I wouldn't otherwise say. No matter what
carnal desires cause me to say things I wouldn't otherwise say.
This is what I really want. Father, glorify your name. God keep it coming. Save your
people. Thy will be done. That's it. Is that what the Lord
taught us to pray? He said when you pray, pray like
that. Give me everything I need. forgiveness and bread for body
and soul. Glorify God. Save your people. Glorify God. Save your people. God glorify yourself. Save your
people. Get glory to your name. Doing
your will and everything we don't you know these are the prayers
of the saints this this what God's people desire leave verse
9 and they saw the new song saying Thou art worthy to take the book
and open the seals thereof for thou was slain But you didn't
die for nothing and hast redeemed us You've redeemed us your people
to God by your blood, O precious blood of the Lamb, out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. Verse 10. And has
made us unto our God kings and priests. Kings and priests. I want you to look up here now.
I want you to look up here. You're looking at a man who's
a king. And I'm looking at a whole bunch
of kings. We are a royal priesthood. Kings who are priests. Kings
are people who rule. Priests are folks who do business
in the holy place. Kings are people who have what
they want. Priests are people who get what
they desire from the throne of God on the basis of a right sacrifice. We are kings and priests ruling
this world, ruling this world, and all things in it in our own
hearts so that we're no longer ruled by our passions but rule
over our passions. You've been preaching all said
you know better than that. I mean our passions no longer
rule us but rather we rule our passions and we serve our God
on his throne giving ourselves to him continually by the Spirit
of God in us. Kings and priests people who
live continually in the holy place with the risen Redeemer. And I beheld and heard the voice
of many angels round about the throne. Beasts and elders and
the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of
thousands who's talking about all? God's elect all the elect
angels all elect men all the redeemed all the called all the
saints all we believe Look what they say. It's what they all
say everyone Everybody who knows God says this Says it with a
loud voice Worthy is the lamb that was slain because he redeemed
us out of every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue by his blood.
He's worthy then to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength,
and honor, and glory, and blessing. All of God's people say so. But
they're not the only ones. When he gets done, when he gets
done, Every creature. Look at this
line. Every creature. See that? Every
creature. Every demon in hell. Every wicked
man who ever walked on this earth. Every bad thing that ever happened
in this world. Every aspect of God's creation.
Every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the
earth. And such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
heard I say, blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be to him
that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever.
And the four beasts said amen. And the four and 20 elders fell
down and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever. And they all
said amen. Amen. This is the way it ought
to be. Christ shall have all glory and
all honor and all power. Everything will bow before him
and praise him. Amen.