In verse 2 of Revelation 4 you come across a description of “one” who is sitting on a throne in heaven. You assume it is God but don’t get a confirmation until the last verse in the chapter. In verse 3 John tries to describe what he sees,
(Rev 4:3 KJV) And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.We already went over the earlier description of Jesus which did not make sense and we will have more confusion on that later but close your eyes and think about the picture we have of God, I assume the Father, at this point. I had to do some research because I had never heard of a sardine stone. Fish, yes, stones no. It might help to see modern translations changing it to sardius or camelian. That gave me something to go on.
The sardius stone is in a range from orange/brown to what I would call redish/chocolate. That is an interesting way to describe God on the throne. That made me check the other colors. I thought of jaspar as green but it comes also in red, brown, blue and yellow. Emeralds usually have some kind of blue to them.
So what does God look like? Not a lot of detail but a lot of color. He certainly doesn’t look like the vision on the Sistine Chapel. I am afraid if the KKK ever read this with their brain turned on it would have ended up fried.
It may not make any sense but it is interesting.
homo unius libri
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