Revelation 4:2-4

2 At once I came under the [Holy] Spirit's power, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with One seated on the throne! 

Notice here that John only sees that One is seated on the Throne. This verse really shows us our unity with our Father. Jesus is seated with God in Heaven and yet when John sees the Throne, there is only One. Our Father had it written that we have been raised up and made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 

And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Ephesians 2:6 

There is absolutely no separation between our Father and Jesus and when John sees the Throne, the place of ultimate authority, He only sees One. Jesus teaches us in John 17:21-24, that we are now one with our Father as He is One with our Father. The TRuth is that if you have seen Jesus, you have seen the Father, John 14:7, and we are now one with Jesus. So if you have seen us, you have seen the Father! Just look at the power that we have been grafted into, and really take hold of it, because the revelation of who we now are in Christ and Who He is within us, will give you a peace and an actual joy of being around for all that we are about to study. 

This is why I believe that John was shown this first. Jesus could have just showed him the end times, but first He shows John unity and power. This allows John and us to know that we will never be left or forsaking. This also shows us that our Father is in control of everything, even the events of the end times. 

3 And He Who sat there appeared like [the crystalline brightness of] jasper and [the fiery] sardius, and encircling the throne there was a halo that looked like [a rainbow of] emerald.

4 Twenty-four other thrones surrounded the throne, and seated on these thrones were twenty-four elders (the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin), arrayed in white clothing, with crowns of gold upon their heads.

We are told that there are twenty-four elders in Heaven. I have always heard that these elders represent twelve Old Testament Elders and twelve New Testament Elders. But the scriptures never actually tell us this, it is only assumed. So I believe that they are just elders, they may represent the two Testaments, but we just aren’t told that they do. Here is what is important about the elders though: it is that God has elders in Heaven. Our Father has order and it means that He doesn’t act alone; our Father is accountable. We know that He is because when our Father acts, the elders all agree with His actions, we will study this fact in later verses as well. Our Father established a Truth for us, and it is that out of the mouth of two or three let everything be confirmed, Matthew 18:16. Our Father follows His Truth for us by having twenty-four elders and they all agree with what they hear and see happpening.  

You might be thinking to yourself, well of course they agree, they have to agree, they have to be just yes men. How could anyone disagree with God? Remember though when God told Abraham that He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham kept on reasoning with our Father. Abraham repeatedly asked what if there is fifty righteous people, thirty righteous people, or even ten righteous people? (Genesis 18:25-27) Our Father didn’t just kill Abraham off for questioning Him. Think of when our Father told Moses that He was going to kill off all of the children of Israel. Moses came right back at Him and the Bible teaches us that God actually repented, Exodus 32:14. Our Father didn’t just kill Moses off or punish him for his challenge to what He wanted to do. Even consider Mary, Jesus told her that it wasn’t His time to act, and she kept right on pressing Him until He did, John 2:4. 

These twenty-four elders are in Heaven, right by the Throne, seeing and hearing everything that is going on, and because they are, no one can ever say that our Father acts alone and is unaccountable. In the Book of Revelation we see that our Father’s wrath is poured out on the children of disobedience and we see that our Father has accountability and agreement with the elders of Heaven for His actions. 

Remember this Truth, our Father is even the Father of the children of disobedience. They will come under His wrath, but our Father will not abandon Grace. People far too often only consider the flesh. Our flesh will die, but our spirits will live. Our Father is working on our souls. The flesh will suffer, but Grace is what will be being applied to their spirits. Our Father even wants those who are disobedient to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth and our Father, Who is God, gets His way, Amen!