VI: The Prophets' Visions

The Throne

the never-vacant bench of Yahuah's judgment

Root
Dan 7:9-10 · kisse (H3678)
Old Testament chain
  1. 1 Kgs 22:19
  2. Ps 11:4
  3. Ps 103:19
  4. Isa 6:1
  5. Ezek 1:26-28
  6. Dan 7:9-10
  7. Rev 4:2
New Testament
Rev 4:2-3, 5; Rev 5:11-14

The Psalms fix the throne in heaven: "Yahuah's throne is in heaven" (Ps 11:4); "his kingdom ruleth over all" (Ps 103:19). Micaiah, Isaiah and Ezekiel each see One seated on it, and Daniel sees the court sit and "the books were opened" (Dan 7:9-10). Revelation's throne is that bench, never vacant, from which every judgment in the book is issued, and every seat faces it. The Lamb comes to it as Yahuah's judicial agent and "took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne" (Rev 5:7). One sits; another receives. The Trinitarian claim of co-equal occupants cannot survive a scene where one hands authority to the other.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 63, 65–66, 73, 77