Regarding the four living creatures in God’s throne room, for us it is clearly stated that their bodies and wings were covered with eyes both inside and out, while they proclaim the threefold ‘Holy!’ day and night (cf. Ezekiel 10:12 i.c.w. Revelation 4:8).
Ezekiel 10:12:
12 Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels.
Revelation 4:8:
8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all round, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: ‘ “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,” who was, and is, and is to come.’
Are we clear on what this means for us?
The Spiritual Perspective and Perception
This is a reminder and call to us as God’s people to align our perspective and perception on both the spiritual and natural level according to the glorification of the Father. The inner eyes point to our spiritual and prophetic senses, which help us to operate in the prophetic quality of the throne room.
The outer eyes refer to our earthly, redeemed perspective and perception, which help us to communicate the prophetic quality from God’s throne room on earth, just as it is in heaven (cf. Matthew 6:9b-10).
Matthew 6:9b-10:
… 9b ‘ “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. …”’
For God the Father in His aspect as the Almighty—El Shaddai—the past, present, and future are not dead but fully alive, because as the ‘I AM’—YHWH, He fills and encompasses all time.
For us as disciples, this also means that the transformation within Him encompasses our progress in all ages in the Spirit and in truth, as well as in His kingship and reign. As we move forward in our discipleship guided by the light of His prophetic insight and perspective, we fulfill our purpose on earth (cf. Colossians 3:1-3).
Colossians 3:1-3:
1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
From this it follows that we speak the revelatory truth to people, just as it corresponds to the Father’s will, when we no longer live according to our former concepts (cf. John 12:49 i.c.w. John 14:10).
John 12:49:
49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.
John 14:10:
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
As we allow the Holy Spirit to fine-tune our prophetic perspective both externally and internally, we are encouraged to enter the circular layers of heaven - or rather, the heavens.
Entering the Circular Layers of Heaven
God’s desire for us is that we learn reverence from the culture of heaven that exists there and grow in that regard as we walk in it. This encompasses the various circles surrounding the throne of God, which are the following:
- the many angels numbering in the myriads of myriads,
- the four living creatures,
- the twenty-four elders,
who circle the throne of God and the Lamb (cf. Revelation 5:11-14).
Revelation 5:11-14:
11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
12 In a loud voice they were saying: ‘Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise!’
13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: ‘To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honour and glory and power, for ever and ever!’
14 The four living creatures said, ‘Amen’, and the elders fell down and worshipped.
During this time, we may be even more confident in embracing God’s will for us, so that in Christ Jesus, His Son, we may walk the path to knowing the truth - the truth that encompasses revelation - and enter into the Father’s presence in eternal life (cf. John 14:6 i.c.w. John 3:16).
John 14:6:
6 Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me. …’
John 3:16:
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
The worship of the countless thousands of angels holds the mystery of the structure of the seven horns of the Lamb of God in the form of:
- power,
- wealth,
- wisdom,
- strength,
- honor,
- glory,
- praise.
The transformation within these channels of reverence as horns of the Lamb of God brings us into a revelatory dynamic of the seven spirits of God, which are connected to the searching light of righteousness on earth (cf. Revelation 5:6 i.c.w. 2 Chronicles 16:9a; Luke 11:34a-b).
Revelation 5:6:
6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the centre of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
2 Chronicles 16:9a:
9a For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. …
Luke 11:34a-b:
34a-b Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy,[Note: generous] your whole body also is full of light. …
This is an ‘outer’ circle of worship that we must pass through as saints and attune ourselves to in this supernatural revelatory knowledge to legitimately enter the ‘Amen!’ of the four living creatures.
The ‘Amen!’ of the Four Living Creatures and the Falling Down of the Twenty-Four Elders
This ‘Amen! is not just any word spoken, rather, it embodies the resonance of understanding within our spirit regarding a statement made in Christ Jesus (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:20).
2 Corinthians 1:20:
20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.
It is the ‘Amen!’ from the structure:
- of the lion (Note: the kingship of God),
- of the bull (Note: the priesthood of God),
- of the man (Note: God as Lawgiver) and
- of the flying eagle (Note: the prophethood of God).
This united ‘Amen!’ channeled into four parts contributes to a great spiritual dynamic that leads us into the realm of active reverence toward the Father and the Son. This is akin to the falling down and worship by the twenty-four elders in the dimension of wisdom before the throne. This realm of wisdom prompts a reverence that comes from the ‘Alpha realm’ toward those who are in the Father’s ‘Omega realm’ (cf. Leviticus 19:32 i.c.w. Proverbs 16:31).
Leviticus 19:32:
32 ‘ “Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord. …”’
Proverbs 16:31:
31 Grey hair is a crown of splendour; it is attained in the way of righteousness.
The realm of God’s ‘Alpha’ and ‘Omega’ can also be likened to the ‘new’ and ‘old’ wineskins, which represent strength and splendor according to Proverbs 20:29 i.c.w. Mark 2:22.
Proverbs 20:29:
29 The glory of young men is their strength, grey hair the splendour of the old.
Mark 2:22:
‘… 22 And no-one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.’
Conveying the Impulses of Revelation from the Inside Out
When we, as saints, enter from the outer to the inner circle of God’s throne room in response to the call to oneness in Christ Jesus in the Father— (cf. John 17:22-23)—we are called to act from the inside out with the impulses of revelation received there. This means speaking and acting from the center of God’s will with revelatory insight.
John 17:22-23:
22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – 23 I in them and you in me – so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Our words and our active dealing with God’s revelatory knowledge correspond to the power of lightning, the sound of voices, and the thunder that emanate from God’s throne room (cf. Revelation 4:5a).
Revelation 4:5a:
5a From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. …
This triune presence of the circles that bear God’s throne—in the form of the myriads of angels, the four living creatures, and the twenty-four elders, as well as the lightning, voices, and thunder emanating from the throne—is equivalent in the earthly realm to the alliance of Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy. This triune apostolic alliance relates to the ‘Yes!’ and ‘Amen!’ in Christ (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:19-20).
2 Corinthians 1:19-20:
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us – by me [Note: Paul], Silas [Note: Silvanus] and Timothy – was not ‘Yes’ and ‘No’, but in him it has always been ‘Yes’.
20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.
It is the ‘Yes!’ of the Son of God to the promise predestined for us by the Heavenly Father that calls upon us to join in the resounding ‘Amen!’ of the four living creatures in God’s throne room and to walk in our God-given promise—governing and secure in humility (Note: Paul), fullness, righteousness (Note: Silvanus), and reverence (Note: Timothy) toward the LORD.
Once we understand this principle, we live within the dynamic of God’s lightning, which corresponds to the movement of the eternal High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, who extends from east to west, or from the outside to the inside (cf. Matthew 24:27 i.c.w. Hebrews 5:5-6).
Matthew 24:27:
27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Hebrews 5:5-6:
5 In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’
6 And he says in another place, ‘You are a priest for ever, in the order of Melchizedek.’
For us, this involves receiving revelation and then bringing it forth from our intimacy with God—from the inside out—and conveying it to the society God has predestined. Let us, as God’s people, fulfill this holy calling on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and give glory to the Father through the Son!
Amen and Amen.
In His Wisdom,
Daniel and Tina Glimm
