And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
The Lamb appears in the midst of the throne as the sacrificial, visible revelation of God’s saving work.
Biblical right-hand language regularly describes power, victory, favor, and royal authority. It should not be flattened into a literal picture of two divine bodies seated side by side.
Jesus is the exalted man and visible Lamb in relation to the invisible God, yet Revelation’s final vision has one throne, one face, and one name.
A vision can distinguish God’s glory from the glorified Son without teaching two Gods or two coequal divine thrones.
Open with a New Testament exaltation text, establish the Old Testament idiom, then finish with Revelation’s one-throne vision.
