1. Revelation 21:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is the significance of the transition from seeing to hearing?

Revelation 21:3 (ESV)

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Revelation 21:3 begins the divine explanation of the vision observed (and recorded) in Revelation 21:1–2.

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