Commentary on Revelation Chapters 4 and 5.

Revelation 5:1-12 prophesies about events that will occur in heaven immediately following the Rapture of the Church. When the Church gets to heaven, symbolized by the translation of the Apostle John in Revelation 4:1, a tremendous worship service begins which has been prophesied by John. This worship service begins in the fourth chapter with the continuous worship of the four beasts who must be the same creatures that Isaiah called the Seraphims in Isaiah 6:2. This continuous worship of the Seraphims who cry "Holy, Holy, Holy" day and night forever inspires the 24 elders who symbolize the Church to fall down also and worship God.

When the Church begins to worship, then Christ appears who only has the power and the right to open a book that He receives from the hand of His Father on His throne. The 24 elders who represent the Church worship Christ because of their redemption by the shed blood and water of Jesus; that is, their salvation by grace. The Church also worships the Lord because He has given them the right to be judges on the earth during the coming millennial reign of Christ. Although the Bible does not directly state this, but in accordance with the context, this book that only Christ can open must contain all of God's new names of all believers who have ever been saved by grace.

This worship service begins to grow exponentially as millions of angels join in the worship of God. This worship service now becomes gigantic and thunderous,

But this worship service grows even more thunderous. Verse 13 records that every creature whom God has ever created begins to join in the worship of God. They begin to fulfill the prophecy of Revelation 4:11. All creatures, including humans, begin to worship God to give Him pleasure. All creatures in heaven and on the earth, including humans, begin to worship. All creatures under the earth, including all humans in hell, begin to worship. All creatures in the material sea, but also all dead humans in that place that God calls "the sea" in Revelation 20:13, begin to worship. In short, all that God has ever created, including all humans, join in this stupendous worship service.

However, all that God did not create does not join in this worship service. Satan, and all else that is sinful and evil, lies outside of the creations of God because it invented itself by misusing God's Ideas. Satan and sin always equals that which is totally evil. All that is totally evil will never worship God under any circumstances. Revelation 9:20-21. All that is totally sinful and evil possesses only a kind of stolen life obtained by the use of negative consciousnesses. In a sense, this negative life only exists because it continuously attempts to destroy God's positive creations. But in another sense, it does not exist at all because it originally came from absolute nothingness which the Bible calls the abyss. Revelation 17:8.

All of this put together can only mean that in Revelation 5:13, all humans that God ever created, whether on the earth or under the earth, alive or dead, begin to worship God despite the sin that attaches to them. That part of them that God created begins to worship Him. That part of them that God created in His image begins to worship Him.