In Isaiah 66 God declares, through the prophet, Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where is the House you will build me? Where is the place of my rest, unto this man will I look. As we consider this scripture we know that the Living God fills the Heaven and the Earth. We know through the Psalmist David that there is no where we can go away from the presence of the Lord. David declared that if he ascended into Heaven, went into the deep, and even into Sheol, the omnipresent God would be there.
What we must ask ourselves as we consider this is what is God’s throne? What does it mean in Isaiah 37:16 that He is enthroned between the Cherubim? In this sharing some of this is answered. Pay particular attention to Heaven and Earth. God’s Heavenly government was represented in the Law of Israel that was given through Moses, and executed in the earth of Israel, with Jerusalem being the place chosen for the rest of God and the place of His feet. The Temple was in fact Israel’s place of Judgement. Here is where the High Priest came once a year with the blood of the offering to sprinkle the Mercy Seat, to sprinkle the seat of Government, to sprinkle the throne of God. God’s divine judgement and rulership was based on the words of the Law and the Blood of the Covenant. Here is where He reigned in Israel, according to the words (law) He had given.
Exodus 25:22 “And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.”
In the Old Covenant God met with Israel, His people according to the Law of Moses. Now in the New Covenant of Jesus Christ there is another blood applied to the Seat of Mercy, to the Seat of Government, to the Throne. It is the Blood of the Lamb. In this Covenant God no longer meets with us according to the Law of Moses but according to Christ. He is the word of the New Covenant. The words He spoke in the Body of His flesh are Spirit and are Life, and have been caught up in the Body of His resurrection.
In Hebrews 12:18-29, we see the transition of these Covenants. The writer declares we have not come to Mt. Sinai, but to Mt. Zion the Heavenly Jerusalem. In this passage of scripture it is declared that we have come to Jesus, the mediator of the New Covenant. We have come to the Blood that SPEAKS greater than Abel. It is declared we have come to God the Judge of All, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Consider this closely. Here in this judgement, God is judging the spirits of just men perfect through the blood of Jesus Christ. Here like Revelation 5 is the Lamb in the Throne. Here in this Covenant we are made perfect or complete through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This is not as the Old where we could never be completed, but always found lacking, always found short of the Glory of God. Now in Christ Jesus we are complete in Him! Glory to God!
