REVELATION MESSAGE 12 – First Impressions
Revelation 4 

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In the end it’s really all about the narrative.

• A narrative is a spoken or written account of connected events—a story. A narrative can be fact or fiction, true or false, ultimate reality or fairy tale. In the book of Revelation the Apostle John is commissioned to write a narrative, a detailed, factual account, of everything that he saw. His job description was simple: write down what you see.
• John was not to choose the when or where or what. He was only to obey Christ and faithfully report what he saw. And that is exactly what he did. In the book of Revelation John wrote “I saw” 35 times and “I looked” another 11 times. He saw, he looked, he wrote.
• He was first told to write in 1:11 to the seven churches in Asia, and then he was given a general command to write in 1:19. All in all John was commanded to write 13 times.
• Here is something interesting to note. John did not know what was going to happen next; he had no idea, no insider information. He wasn’t given an outline or an overview. He was merely along for the ride in a sense. Angels holding back the four winds of the earth … wasn’t on his radar. Riders on horses bringing worldwide catastrophes on the earth … didn’t see that one coming. Seals of judgment …  bowls of wrath … God unfolded the entire panorama before him, and his job was to write it down.
• Which means with God directing the what and the when that we see in John’s writings exactly what God wants us to see and when he wants us to see it in the progression of the book. So what did God want us to see first? What did God want our first impression of heaven to be?