Throne of God symbolizes very deep thoughts
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The heart of God is not literal but symbolizes His deep love for us. His throne symbolizes His unutterably deep thoughts
- We live in an information age
- Jesus is both God and Man
- There is nobody beside God in Heaven
- Your future crown is an immortal body
- Share a throne symbolizes sharing His deepest thoughts
We live in an information age
ISAIAH 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God has compressed great wisdom into His Word as He knows far more than we do.
We need to be able to understand the information that is hidden in the Bible if we are to be part of the wise virgins of Matthew 25, rather than the foolish or fooled virgins.
DANIEL 12:10 … but the wise shall understand.
Images, like a throne, can display huge amounts of data.
We need to be able to unpack the information that is coded into these images. We need a deeper insight to unite all the verses on a topic that at times seem to contradict each other.
For example, the atom is an idea that scientists developed and its success depends upon the fact that the atom contains an enormous amount of information about the world. Stars and planets look different but they can all be described in terms of atoms. Solids, liquids, and gases look different but they can all also be described as being made up of atoms. The right symbol can thus unfold into a much deeper insight that unites many different-looking things.
The Bible clearly mentions one throne and One Person on the throne.
REVELATION 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
The Bible never mentions three thrones. No Trinity of three Persons is ever seen in Heaven.
But some verses look like two Persons or two thrones.
REVELATION 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
What deeper insight will unify these two verses, and other verses that seem to imply two thrones of God, into one consistent theme so that we do not have to ignore or contradict a verse?
Jesus is both God and Man
Scientists have discovered that natural light behaves like a localized moving particles or light behaves as a wave spreading out in all directions like ripples on the surface of water.
Jesus as a Man was localized in one place on earth but yet as God He could see everywhere.
JOHN 1:48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
How did Jesus know that Philip had called Nathanael? How did Jesus know that Nathanael was under a fig tree?
JOHN 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
As God, Jesus was in Heaven as a supernatural Spirit that is unlimited, while He was on earth in the form of a Man.
Jesus as a Man was trying to show us a portion of the supernatural power of God that is too deep for us to understand. Jesus was bringing the unlimited Spirit of God down to our level because our thinking is localized and limited.
God is one Person.
DEUTERONOMY 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
The Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary to conceive a Child.
MATTHEW 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
That means the Holy Ghost is God the Father. Only one Person can make a woman pregnant as a baby can only have one father.
Jesus is the Man that God dwelled in. The entire Spirit of God dwelled in Him bodily.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
The Son is the natural Man and the Father is the supernatural Spirit within Him. But you are everything that is within you. That is why Jesus is God.
God is not flesh and bone.
God is not a Man, God is a Spirit.
NUMBERS 23:19 God is not a man,
JOHN 4:24 God is a Spirit:
Jesus is a Man but because God dwelled inside Him, He is also God.
God became a Man. Jesus is the only Man Who is God.
Father and Son are simply a way of describing how the Supernatural fused or merged with the Natural Man to produce a Man-God Person.
Thus, the human name of God is Jesus Christ.
If you believe in a Trinity (unscriptural word) of three separate Persons then you cannot find a name for the Trinity God. Three People cannot have one name. You will say, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” but you cannot say what that name is.
Thanks to the Trinity idea, God loses His name.
But the third commandment says not to swear in the name of God.
Sinners swear in the name of Jesus Christ. You do not hear them swearing in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
So, sinners can tell you the name of God while church-goers cannot. A sad irony.
There is nobody beside God in Heaven
ISAIAH 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
You cannot see Jesus sitting beside God the Father.
Three Persons are never seen on the throne in the Bible as shown by this unscriptural Roman Catholic Trinity.
This picture of the Trinity is copied from the ancient Egyptians who had many trinities.
They pictured three people sitting on a throne. This is never seen in the Bible. It is pagan.
The names of this trinity were Isis, Horus, and Seb.
You cannot picture Jesus as the Saviour sitting beside God on a throne.
Christians picture Jesus sitting on the right hand of God.
But God cannot be seen because God is a Spirit Who has no shape.
JOHN 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time;
JOHN 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
REVELATION 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
What does that mean to you?
Two thrones? Jesus sits in His Father’s throne.
REVELATION 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne
One throne in Heaven and One sits on that throne.
Jesus is a Man on the outside but the fullness of the supernatural God dwells within Him.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
As an illustration, you have a conscious mind (son) that you can control and a subconscious mind (father) which is far more powerful and controls your body functions (heartbeat, etc) as well as keeping you breathing when you are fast asleep. But you do not have two minds. Just two manifestations of one mind.
The Man Jesus is the Son with His human attributes.
The Father is the supernatural attributes or Holy Spirit that controls the human Man. Basically, the divine Dove that leads the submissive Lamb.
REVELATION 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
REVELATION 5:7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
The Lamb comes in verse 7 to take the Book from God Who sits on the throne.
We can visualize that as two Persons only if we overlook the fact that the Lamb is already in the midst of the throne before He starts moving.
Verse 6 says that the Lamb stood in the midst of the throne before He begins to move.
So, the Lamb, Who is Christ, never moved through space as He was always in the midst of the throne.
How is that possible?
Einstein taught us that space and time are interlinked as space-time. Humans can walk through space but supernatural creatures can walk through time as well.
Jesus was sitting still in space but moving through time as He moved back to the beginning to check His salvation plan and make sure that nobody who wanted to get saved had been left out in any way. No names must be missing from the Book of Redemption. Then He came back from His journey into the past because Jesus checks everything. Having secured salvation as the Lamb, Jesus as the Creator takes the Book of redemption and then opens It to reveal how He defeated the Devil’s plan down through the 2000 years of church history.
Not two People. Jesus has two ministries. Creator and Savior. Only God can fulfil those two ministries.
ISAIAH 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
If you see these verses as two Persons, where is the Holy Spirit? Totally left out. So that means the Trinity never produced salvation. Two Persons suits the Jehovah Witnesses with their wrong ideas. But two Persons does not suit the Trinity. Trinity is an unscriptural word.
REVELATION 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God.
sent forth into all the earth.
Look at verse 6, seven Spirits of God. If each Spirit is a Person then you have seven Persons in the Godhead. That cannot be.
The seven Spirits of God are the manifestation of God in each of the different circumstances of the seven church ages.
There have been seven church ages during the last 2000 year.
The original truth, the Seed Word of the New Testament, was planted by the apostles. When the apostles died ambitious human leaders took over as the head of each church, instead of each church being ruled by a group of local elders.
ACTS 20:17 And from Miletus he [Paul] sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
ACTS 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Paul warned that the first move of Satan would be to elevate one preacher to be the head of a church. That unscriptural leader would then bind the church into error as they followed him instead of Scripture.
Many Bible truths got lost at the AD 325 Council of Nicaea where the Roman emperor Constantine forced the Trinity onto the church.
God lost His name. The Triune God has no name. Then truth died in the dirt of the Dark Ages.
A seed must fall into the ground and die. Then it germinates back to life.
The Reformation of the German Martin Luther in the 1520s saw the leaves of “getting saved by grace through faith” germinate as the printing press spread his tracts.
Between 1604 and 1769 the King James Bible was translated and checked for about 160 years. It is now the infallible Word of God.
Around 1750 the industrial revolution, based on the steam engine, started. At that time John Wesley preached holiness and outreach which led to the pollen of the great missionary age that blew over the earth. Steamboats took missionaries overseas and steam engines used the railways to help missionaries travel inland.
In 1906 Pentecost saw the husk of the supernatural start to form at the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles and then William Branham in America between 1947 - 1965 revealed the mysteries of Scripture to restore us back to the original truth of the New Testament Seed Word of the apostles.
The final Seed that is harvested must be identical to the original Seed Word that the New Testament apostles planted. The New Testament apostles had no Trinity, no Christmas, no 25 December, no Good Friday, no Easter Monday, etc. All these pagan corruptions undermined the church.
7 Spirits of God are not 7 Persons in the Godhead, but 7 manifestations of God’s Spirit to protect His church as church history went through 7 different stages or ages.
The seven horns were the power of God that was manifest in each age. The tremendous courage that He gave the Christians in the Dark Ages when they were slaughtered in their millions like oxen in a slaughterhouse. In the missionary age, God gave men and women their huge love for the heathens as they left their homes and comfort to travel to remote places to labour and often die in their desire to save the heathen by grace through faith in Jesus. The missionaries knew they had been saved by grace so why not give the heathen a similar chance to be saved by grace?
Seven eyes were God's messengers. One messenger was sent to enlighten each of the seven church ages as to what God wanted from the circumstances of that age. Martin Luther was a very prominent eye of God to remind the church that they were saved by faith in Jesus alone, not faith in the church. His insight changed the history of Europe. In our last church age of Laodicea God expects us to understand the mysteries of the Bible.
Daniel 12:10 … but the wise shall understand.
We need to understand the mysteries of Scripture to be ready for the coming of the Lord as the wise virgins of Matthew 25.
Virgins are clean women representing saved Christians in the church. But the foolish virgins have been fooled by the pagan traditions that their church leaders lull them to sleep with.
Both the wise and the foolish saved Christians in the churches are fast asleep. But do not realize the fact and think that they are wide awake.
MATTHEW 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
They are in a delusion, waiting for a massive wake-up call. Perhaps the sinking of Los Angeles in an earthquake and tidal wave which will wreck the American economy and lead to the Roman Catholic church taking over America.
MATTHEW 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
“Go ye out”. In the end you will realize that your church has failed you and you will have to get out.
Remember the Triune God has got no name. You can’t find one name for three Persons.
The Holy Spirit has no name in the Bible. The Holy Spirit is God but He has no name. Something is wrong.
The Father is called by the name Jehovah in the Old Testament. But the name Jehovah is never mentioned in the New Testament. Trinitarians cannot explain this.
“God the Son” is never mentioned in the Bible. Why?
“God the Holy Spirit” is never mentioned in the Bible. Why? Trinitarians cannot explain.
“God the Father” is never mentioned in the Old Testament. But is in the New Testament. Trinitarians cannot explain.
Foolish virgins are fooled into being fast asleep and totally unaware that they believe so much that is unscriptural.
Your future crown is an immortal body
When people read Revelation 3:21 they get the impression that Jesus referred to his throne and also to his Father’s throne.
REVELATION 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
But that creates a problem.
Of course, if there are multi-millions of Christians that overcome, then there will be a massive crowd sitting on the throne of Jesus!
Something does not quite make sense.
At the coronation of King Charles, Queen Camilla had a very anxious time because she was scared that the crown would fall off her head. It is not much fun wearing a crown.
So, what does a crown represent in the Bible?
A crown in Heaven is a symbol that represents an eternal, immortal body that cannot die and is free from pain and sickness. A body that cannot age and grow weaker.
This is the crowning reward of your Christian life.
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When you're sick and tired of this whole life, and you love the appearing of the Lord Jesus better than you love your food at the table, or your wife, or your children, then there's a crown laid up for you,
not a crown, a gold crown they put upon your head, but a body free from pain
of... crowned in the glory of God, crowned in the immortality of Jesus Christ.
Share a throne symbolizes sharing His deepest thoughts
What is meant by a throne in Heaven?
God is a Spirit so God does not have a physical heart. His heart symbolises His love for us.
One cannot imagine multi-millions sitting on a throne for all eternity.
God’s throne on earth today is the born-again human heart where God’s Holy Spirit is always trying to teach us the deeper truths of Scripture.
JOHN 16:13 When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.
Humans have 24 ribs and 24 elders sit around the throne in Revelation Chapter 4. God is trying to tell us something.
The four chambers of the heart represent the four beasts around the throne of God when Jesus sits on the throne of your heart.
The heart symbolizes your deepest thoughts and desires.
REVELATION 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
REVELATION 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats:
and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting,
clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
The blue stars represent the patriarchs of the 12 tribes of Israel from the Old Testament.
The red stars represent the 12 apostles from the New Testament, with Paul taking the place of Judas.
There are four beasts around the throne in Revelation Chapter 4.
Your heart has four chambers.
REVELATION 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Eyes speak of intelligence.
“Before”. They know the future.
“Behind”. They know the past.
These beasts or living creatures protected the church during the changing circumstances of church history as the Devil kept changing his methods of attack.
REVELATION 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Hopefully you can start to realize that God’s New Testament throne or dwelling place is the born-again heart of repentant sinners.
MATTHEW 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
The human heart is the only place that reflects God’s Heavenly throne.
The best answer that I have heard so far for a throne is that it represents the deeper and deeper layers of God’s unutterable thoughts.
God sitting with you on His throne just means that God will spend eternity taking you deeper and deeper into the understanding of His Word and His eternal thoughts.
What a blessed hope that is.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Jesus, the Man, sitting on the throne of the supernatural Father Who dwells inside the Man Jesus, simply means that the supernatural Spirit communicates His deepest thoughts to the mind of the Man Jesus.