Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 4:1

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 I had the first Vision mentioned chap. 1. and had written, what it was the Pleasure of God I should write to the Churches, in a Book, perceiving the way God designed to reveal himself to me, was by Vision;

I looked again, hoping, and being desirous to see something further, as to the Mind of God.

I saw the Heavens opened, as Matth. 3.16. Acts 7.56.

He, doubtless, meaneth the third Heavens. Such a Vision, as to this particular, Iohn had at Christ's Baptism, Matth. 3. and Stephen when he was stoned.

He also heard the Voice of one speaking aloud to him, like the Voice he heard. ch. 1.10.

Which said, Come up hither into Heaven, the new Hierusalem which is above, as the old Hierusalem stood upon an Hill, or rising-ground, so as they who went thither, are constantly said to go up, Isa. 2.3. Acts 11.2. Gal. 1.17, 18. & 2.1.

Not which have been, (for to what purpose had that been?) but which shall happen hereafter both to my Church, and to her Enemies: from which appears, that God did not here shew his Prophet the Destruction of Hierusalem, (for that was already past in the time of Titus Vespasian the Roman Emperor, about the year 69, or 70, after the Incarnation) this (as all confess) was in Domitian's time, about the 11th, or 12th year of his Reign, about 26 or 27 years after that was past, which makes the Notion of two late Annotators very strange.

Marginal references: Chap. 1.10.