Revelation 4:1 Revelation 4:1 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 shew thee things which must be hereafter. “ After this I looked” that is, after the apostle John had seen the vision of the seven golden candlesticks, he looked, that is, he waited and expected to have more visions and revelations from the Lord Jesus Christ. One glimpse of the glory of God in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, \ doth cause his saints and servants to look for more, \ To see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. “ And behold, a door was opened in heaven” Stephen had heaven opened, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus Christ standing on the right hand of God. \ Peter also saw heaven opened, \ and St. John beheld a door opened in heaven; that is, he had an open vision of unseen glory, as Stephen had, and a revelation of things that should come to pass. "And the first voice which I heard," see Revelation 1:10-11 "was as it were of a trumpet talking with me;" that is, a loud voice, full of majesty, yet familiar and friendly, talking with me. John’ s spiritual acquaintance with Jesus Christ in glory, begot a holy and humble familiarity with his majesty without fear. “ Which said, come up hither; ” that is, to Christ, to me, that is, in heaven, where Christ is; “ and I will show thee” make known unto thee “ things which must be hereafter” viz. Those things that are to come, and shall shortly come to pass. See Revelation 1:1; Revelation 1:19.