PH12 X2M.185 QARQA קַרְקַע
Qarqa—literally “floor” in Hebrew—is more than stone beneath our feet. It is the tesserae pavement of the throne itself, the sapphire foundation where judgment and worship converge. From Psalm 29’s thunderous shout of Yahweh¹ to Job’s cosmic interrogation² and Ezekiel’s charge against false shepherds³, the ground of Qarqa shakes with both majesty and warning.
This word carries us into the Hall of Judgment: “He also made a throne room, called the Hall of Judgment, where he made judicial decisions. It was paneled with cedar from the floor (qarqa) to the rafters.” (1 Kgs. 7:7)⁶. The tesserae beneath the throne are not decorative but structural—fragments of eternity tessellated into a seamless foundation. Buckminster Fuller recognized similar cosmic patterns, and Ezekiel saw sapphire stone beneath the feet of the enthroned One⁴.
To stand on this floor is to be tested by light: entropy, exposure, elasticity. It is the contested ground Adam forfeited, the contested ground Christ restores. Worship becomes warfare here—high praise that unsettles false shepherds and enthrones the true Shepherd David⁵. The sapphire pavement beneath His throne is not remote; it is breaking into the terrestrial, locating heaven in earth and earth in heaven.
Qarqa is thus the station where worship, judgment, and glory fuse. It is the tessellated space of enthronement, where the sons and daughters of God stand as living stones, floors of the cosmic temple.
Grace went through me like a sword and came out like a song.
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¹ Ps. 29:1–11.
² Job 38:1–41.
³ Ezek. 34:1–31.
⁴ Exod. 24:10; Ezek. 1:26.
⁵ Ezek. 34:23–24.
⁶ 1 Kgs. 7:7.
