Revelation 4:9-11

9 And whenever the living creatures offer glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him Who sits on the throne, Who lives forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities),

10 The twenty-four elders (the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin) fall prostrate before Him Who is sitting on the throne, and they worship Him Who lives forever and ever; and they throw down their crowns before the throne, crying out,

Whenever the four beasts see what our Father is doing they give Him the credit, they give Him the glory, and the twenty-four elders agree and all that are in Heaven pay homage to our Father for His goodness. The elders and beasts see our Father’s love, they see the results of His actions, they see how God takes care of His children, and they praise Him for it. The elders throw their crowns at our Father’s feet to clearly show that He is the ultimate authority and that they agree with His actions. They show that His actions are righteous and just, and loving, and that they are Truthful! Our Father must keep giving them back their crowns, because they keep on doing it. 

11 Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and dominion, for You created all things; by Your will they were [brought into being] and were created.

God sees all, past present and future. Our Father is in total control. He is accountable, and the twenty-four elders are in total agreement with His actions. Our Father is good, He is love, He is gentle, kind, and He is a great provider! Our Father’s actions bring praise and thanksgiving. He isn’t selfish. Everything that He has, He has given to us through Jesus. Everything that He is, He has given to us through the power of His Holy Spirit. We are now one with Him, even while we are on this earth! The four creatures see it, the twenty-four elders agree with it, and Jesus was willing to die for it. That is how special we are to our Father. That is how much He loves us and our Father is more than willing to show it!

When I see in the Word how Jesus personally dealt with other people I know that these actions that John has seen of the creatures and elders have to be symbolic. Jesus told the disciples that if they had seen Him, then they had seen the Father, John 14:9. When Jesus was raised up from the dead and glorified back to the state that He had before He came to the earth as a man, how did He act? Did He command those who saw Him to bow down before Him to pay Him His rightful homage, or did He prepare a meal for them after miraculously given them a bounty? John 21:7-9. I don’t see our eternity as being an eternity of us bowing down before our Father, we do worship Him, but as a loved child, not as a slave who cowers at the feet of their master. 

I don’t believe that God created these beings just so they would bow to Him constantly. I don’t think our Father is that insecure, because we can plainly see our Father in Jesus? I think these visions show that God has a hierarchy in Heaven that loves Him, trusts Him, honors Him, and agrees with Him. And no one and no angel and no created being can ever say that God did not act in complete love and Truth and fairness.

Also notice that the confession of faith in Heaven is that our Father created all things according to His will. The glory given to our Father in Heaven is how His will is in control. How ironic is it that in most churches today the glory spoken of is how our Father gave us a free will, a will separate from His? A confession of free will does not glorify the Truth, it glorifies man, and it will not set you free.

For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. Ephesians 2:10

Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]-- Ephesians 1:4-5