Arrangements Around The Throne pt3 - Dele Matthews, Yahweh to Face

Dele Matthews

Dele Matthews applies the throne-room imagery developed in earlier episodes to Christian priesthood, authority and submission. He argues that Paul’s language about being seated with Christ should be read alongside the visions of Daniel and Revelation rather than isolated into slogans about power. Paul’s prophetic and apostolic ministry is used to support this integrated reading.

The twenty-four elders become a model of authority exercised in worshipful surrender. Although crowned and seated, they cast their crowns before God. Matthews uses this picture to challenge a division between teaching that stresses dominion and teaching that stresses holiness or submission: he argues that believers need both, held together under God’s rule. Ephesians 4 supplies the goal of unity and mature knowledge of Christ.

The latter section describes human history in terms of divinely ordered seasons, using Hebrews 11:3. The speaker specifically claims that a kingdom age began in 2001; that chronology is his theological assertion, not a date established by the cited text. The practical conclusion calls for homes, work and ministry to reflect peace and submission to God. A substantial portion of the closing teaching is repeated within the available recording.