Theme: Before being given the details of God's future plan for this world, God comforts His people by giving John a vision of the state of things in heaven.

Theme: The writer offers sound reasons for not drawing back from the throne of grace because of opposition to the faith.

Theme: The writer exhorts his readers to be faithful to Jesus by reminding them of the nature of faith.

Theme: This passage describes the sober scene in heaven just before the final outpouring of God's wrath on earth begins