After the first two !!!!"AFTER THESE THINGS"!!!! John the one doing all
the observations (((of the future))). is ((firstly)) staring at the face of God, before
many other things come into view...
Rev 4:1
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place
after these things.” Rev 4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
It isn't until
nineteen chapters later that the church is mentioned again. If you get my drift. And that is
after five more "After these things" and one "after this" when thereafter the narrative pops back into the times of John and therefore completing any final instructions to the "Churches"...
Rev 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David,
the bright morning star.”
Rev 2:26a 'He who overcomes,
Rev 2:28 'I will give him the morning star.'