A Door Opened in Heaven

Words of Truth
Revelation 4 and 5REV 4REV 5
The connection of the first verse of Rev. 4 with the addresses to the seven churches is most significant. "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.”
A door is opened in heaven to John, and he sees the throne of God in government, when everything is according to God's mind. John's spirit had been troubled by the display of the utter failure in testimony just witnessed in the churches. He had seen the Lord walking amidst the golden candlesticks, investigating their condition, and all is failure. So their end is such that Christ will spew them out of His mouth.
What grace, at a moment like this, to open to the tried heart of the prophet a door into heaven. He then shows the poor saint of God—tempest-tossed amid the ruin of all which God has set up in the hands of man—a scene in preparation for the coming day of glory, where no failure can come.
Such is the comfort of the child of God who walks in communion with God. He is shown the purpose of God in heaven, and though he may scarcely know how to steer his course amid the waves and storms as they grow more and more tempestuous around him, the Spirit of God carries his heart into a scene where no evil or failure can come.
Whatever the Church may be now, God will set a throne in heaven, and One will sit thereon, displaying the glory of God's government where not even the spray of the storm can reach! This is the stay of the heart. If the Church is all in confusion and disorder, God shows His saints, for their comfort, that even now the government is in the hands of One who sits upon the throne. The display of glory here is dispensational and governmental, Jehovah-Elohim-Shaddai, in connection with creation, as the One for whose pleasure all things are and were created.