A few days ago I reviewed Matthew Emerson’s Between the Cross and the Throne. In chapter four, The Portrait of God and His People, Emerson gives us the Skeleton Key to understand some of the cryptic images John uses about God. He reveals three of the images which John uses “to describe Yahweh’s rule over his enemies, his people, and his creation” (35).
God is Sovereign
“And before the throne [of God] there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal,” Revelation 4.6.
What do we make of this “sea of glass”? Why is there a sea before God’s throne, and why is it of glass? Emerson says, “In the Old Testament, the sea represents chaos and evil” (35).
Psalm 74.12-15 says,
12 Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You divided the…
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