The bible tells us about the Throne of God which is in Heaven. The question that I want to ask and pursue the answer to is Who sits on the Throne in Heaven? Is it Jehovah God, or Jesus Christ, or are they one and the same?
In the first century AD there was no question about who Jesus was, He introduced Himself as being the Son of God and was accepted as such. At no time did Jesus say that He was God or the Father. The angel Gabriel who spoke to Mary His mother to be that she was to bring forth a child who would be the Son of God. For the most part all of the church for about three hundred years accepted Jesus as the Son of God with some exceptions. There were even at that time where it was questioned whether Jesus was actually God or not.
Finally all of the church leaders at that time got together to unite and solve the differences in what they believed and decided to solve the diety in question and concluded that Jesus was God. In fact they concluded that He was part of the Godhead made up of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and adopted the term of the Godhead being the trinity, three persons in one God. A false doctrine that has stuck with the churches for hundreds of years.
Now how can the trinity be made up with three persons when it is made clear in the first chapter of Luke that God and the Holy spirit are one and the same? In verse 35 of that chapter the angel speaks of the Holy Spirit coming upon her and the child would be the Son of God. Now that should be very clear that God and the Holy Spirit were one and the same. That leaves the trinity being composed of just two persons and not three. See how unscriptural that is?
Now concerning the Throne we start by examining one statement in the book of Revelations. Chapter five verse one starts off by saying: “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Then there appeared a Lamb as it had been slain, And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”
Now what is pictured here is that someone was sitting on the Throne and without a doubt it was Jehovah God the Father and He had a book in His hand. That should be pretty clear and needs no further explanation. Then it is said that a lamb that appeared to have been slain came along. This should also be clear that Jesus was the Lamb of God and He was killed on the cross by the Romans. Then this lamb, Jesus, took the book out of the hand of the person sitting on the Throne which was God the Father. That’s pretty clear also that there were two people involved in this, there was God the Father and Jesus Christ. Does that sound like they are one and the same? Not hardly!
Throughout the whole New Testament Jesus speaks of God the Father who is in Heaven and how the Father sent Him. You see Jesus praying to the Father and instructing others to worship the Father etc, etc. If there is no God the Father in Heaven and He is really on Earth in the person of Jesus, then Jesus was not telling the people the truth about the Father being in Heaven.
If Jesus was actually God Himself then all of the references to God and the Father being in Heaven should be taken out of the Bible, all the hundreds of them because those references do nothing more than to mislead the people as to what the truth really is.
So now, who was on the Throne? Jehovah God the Father was alone there until His only begotten Son completed His work and has been given a seat on that Throne on the right hand of God His Father. When the time of God’s judgment comes and you stand before that Throne, you may be asked why you failed to believe the gospel of God sending His Son to us and chose to believe that was not the truth, but that God Himself came down and made Himself a body to dwell in.
Even not we know that our bodies are the temple of God and His Spirit dwells in us. Does that make us God? The answer is no it doesn’t and because the Spirit of God that was in Jesus didn’t make Him God either.
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