THE book of Revelation is the glory, not of the bosom of the Father (John 1:11), but of the throne of God. (Revelation 1:14.) It is the effulgence, not of Him who lay in the one place, but of Him who is to inherit the other.... If the bosom have comforted us, may I not say, the throne may now elevate us―if we stand in grace we may learn judgment.
The gospel by John conducts us to the Father’s house; our path there ends, as the path of children in that home of love. But the Apocalypse by John gives us the action that clears the earth for the kingdom and the glory, and gets the golden city ready; and our path here ends as the path of heirs in that place of glory. For both are ours―the joys of children, and the dignity of heirs; the home of the Father, and the throne of the Son.”