Having wings may be interpreted as the ability to go anywhere quickly. ‘Full of eyes’ means God is all seeing and all knowing. face of a: Man=Love, Eagle=Wisdom, Lion=Power, and Ox=Justice. The Creatures represent the four attributes of God i.e. Lightnings, voices, and thunders (chapter 4, verse 5) remind us of Psalm 77:18, “The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.” When is the whole world enlightened? In our very day as foretold in Daniel 12:4, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
As is stated in 2 Peter 1:19 & 21, “We have also a more sure word of prophecy… (Old Testament) For the prophecy came as holy men of God spoke being moved by the Holy Spirit.” These faithful elders of old give us a firm foundation on which to build our faith. These are Moses, Joshua, Job, Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, which are those who wrote the Old Testament. The Jasper and Sardis stones represent God because they were the first and last stones in Aaron’s breastplate (Genesis 28:17-20), and God says of himself the he is the first and last many times.(Isaiah 48:12) There are also 24 elders sitting on thrones which represent those that God has authorized to represent him.
John could not have literally seen God because Exodus 33:20 teaches, “…there shall no man see me, and live.” (Revelation 5:1-5) Chapter 4 opens with a vision which is a symbolic representation of God on his throne. Revelation 4 & 5 is a vision showing that God does have a plan that was not to be revealed until Jesus faithfully finished his ransom sacrifice.
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