Revelation 4:1 meaning and explanation

After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

Revelation 4:1, Berean Standard Bible

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John, exiled on Patmos, has just finished recording letters to seven churches. Now he sees an open door in heaven, and the trumpet-like voice he first heard in chapter 1, the risen Christ, summons him to receive the next vision.

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