22  And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible ^dcrystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

  1  Q. What is the ^asea of glass spoken of by John, 4th chapter, and 6th verse of the Revelation?

A. It is the earth, in its sanctified, immortal, and eternal state.

  2  Q. What are we to understand by the four beasts, spoken of in the same verse?

A. They are figurative expressions, used by the Revelator, John, in describing heaven, the paradise of God, the happiness of man, and of beasts, and of creeping things, and of the fowls of the air; that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal; and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual; the spirit of man in the likeness of his person, as also the spirit of the beast, and every other creature which God has created.

  7  But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a ^dsea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord.