The apostle John, a servant of Jesus Christ, was in exile on the island of Patmos (Revelation 1:9). Through a vision the Lord took him into heaven to see “what must take place” (Revelation 4:1) in God’s world as the ascended Christ was gathering his church.
1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.