“Day and night, they never stop saying, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come” (8). John’s vision gave courage to believers who had seen their friends jailed and martyred. He saw “a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it” (2). This Someone was blazing with color, surrounded by a rainbow, and worshipped by 24 elders on thrones and spectacular creatures. John heard thunder and saw lightning, punctuated by songs of praise.

“You are worthy, our Lord God ... for you created all things” (13). Amid terrible persecution or ordinary trouble and anxiety, our comfort is that the King of all things - life, death, past, present, and future - holds us in His hands.