heavenly throne room do. John’s heavenly perspective in Revelation allows him to communicate to readers what is really going on in their world and what its ultimate outcome must be. This invigorates their imaginations with a completely new perspective. Richard Bauckham expresses the point well: The effect of John’s visions, one might say, is to expand his readers’ world, both spatially (into heaven) and temporally (into the eschatological future), or, to put it another way, to open their world to divine