REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Fourteen -Lightnings, Voices, and Thunders

 What does John next see and hear? "And out of the throne there are proceeding lightnings and voices and thunders." (Revelation 4:5a)  How reminiscent of other awesome manifestations of Jehovah's celestial power!  For example, when Jehovah "came down" on Mount Sinai, Moses reported: "On the third day when it became morning it came about that thunders and lightnings began occurring, and a heavy cloud upon the mountain and very loud sound of the horn became continually louder and louder, Moses began to speak, and the true God began to answer him with a voice." -EXODUS 19:16-19. 

During the Lord's day, Jehovah makes his power and presence manifest in a sublime way.  No, not by literal lightning, for John is seeing signs.  What, then, so the lightnings represent? Well, flashes of lightning can illuminate, but they also strike one dead. Therefore, these lightnings  issuing from Jehovah's throne well picture  the flashes of enlightenment that he has continually granted his people, and even more significantly, his fiery judgment messages. - PSALM 18:14; 145:5, 6; MATTHEW 4:14-17; 24:27.

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