Tag: heaven

Heaven is imagined to be many different things by many different people, yet scripture guarantees the glory of heaven is worship of the LORD forever. Scripture also describes heaven as Holy. Christ Jesus IS the only way we will live to worship God in heaven forever.

  • Thrones

    Thrones

    Genesis 41:38-40 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?” Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”

    2 Samuel 7

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    The Lord’s Covenant with David

    8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. 9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth…

    13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”

    Daniel 7

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    The Ancient of Days Reigns

    Ancient_of_Days

    9 “As I looked, thrones were placed,

    and the Ancient of Days took his seat;
    his clothing was white as snow,
    and the hair of his head like pure wool;
    his throne was fiery flames;
    its wheels were burning fire.
    10 A stream of fire issued
    and came out from before him;
    a thousand thousands served him,
    and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;
    the court sat in judgment,
    and the books were opened.

    Matthew 19:28

    Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

    Revelation 4

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    The Throne in Heaven

    4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

    And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

    “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
    who was and is and is to come!”

    9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

    11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
    for you created all things,
    and by your will they existed and were created.”

     

  • Glory and Honor and Power

    Worship requires the creature to bow down to it’s Creator.  The Apostle John records the worship of the living creatures. Man must also bow down to the Lord our God.

    “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
    who was and is and is to come!”

    Revelation 4:9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

    11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
    for you created all things,
    and by your will they existed and were created.”

    Worship – doxa

    • opinion, judgment, view

    • opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone

      1. in the NT always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honour, and glory

    • splendour, brightness

      1. of the moon, sun, stars

      2. magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace

      3. majesty

        1. a thing belonging to God

          1. the kingly majesty which belongs to him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity

        2. a thing belonging to Christ

          1. the kingly majesty of the Messiah

          2. the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ; the majesty
        3. of the angels

          1. as apparent in their exterior brightness

    • a most glorious condition, most exalted state

      1. of that condition with God the Father in heaven to which Christ was raised after he had achieved his work on earth

      2. the glorious condition of blessedness into which is appointed and promised that true Christians shall enter after their Saviour’s return from heaven

    Revelation 5:

    “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
    and honor and glory and blessing!”

    13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,

    “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
    be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

    14 And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

  • Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Gloria in excelsis Deo – Antonio Vivaldi

    Psalm 29

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Ascribe to the Lord Glory

    A Psalm of David.

    29 Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings,[a]

    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

    2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;

    worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

    King James Version

    Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

    Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

    Glory! kabowd – 

    1. glory, honour, glorious, abundance

      1. abundance, riches

      2. honour, splendour, glory

      3. honour, dignity

      4. honour, reputation

      5. honour, reverence, glory

      6. glory

    Worship! shachah

    to bow down

    1. (Qal) to bow down

    2. (Hiphil) to depress (fig)

    3. (Hithpael)

      1. to bow down, prostrate oneself

        1. before superior in homage

        2. before God in worship

        3. before false gods

        4. before angel

    Glory to God in the Highest!
    Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;
    worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.