Arrangements Around The Throne pt1 - Dele Matthews, Yahweh to Face

Dele Matthews

Dele Matthews introduces a series about the arrangements around God’s throne and their significance for the kingdom of God on earth. The Lord’s Prayer establishes the premise: heaven, rather than a church organization or human institution, supplies the pattern for God’s will. The episode therefore concentrates on the arrangement within biblical visions rather than on predicting events.

Revelation 4 provides the principal scene, including the throne, elders, lamps, sea of glass and four living creatures. Matthews compares this with Stephen’s vision, Paul’s heavenly experience, Ezekiel’s throne vision and Daniel’s Ancient of Days. He highlights recurring images and differences between the living creatures in Revelation and Ezekiel.

The discussion then turns to Israel’s wilderness camp, with the tabernacle at the center and tribes arranged around it. The speaker connects this order, tribal-banner imagery and the carrying of the ark with the heavenly pattern shown to Moses. These connections are presented as his symbolic reading; some details are not directly established in the passages cited. The conclusion raises the practical question of the church’s place in God’s order and defers fuller application to later episodes.