throne of God

Revelation’s angels have three pairs of wings; Ezekiel’s have two pairs that are covered with eyes, and their flight is described as “hovering,” with abundant thunder, lightning and electrical plasma surrounding the angels as they flutter around the throne of God.

Now that scorn for knowledge has been spread in America, like a squirt from a pump dispenser of liquid margarine, Evelyn Waugh’s instruction has never sounded more necessary: “Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.”

They shook clasped hands toward heaven, they smiled terrible, toothless smiles, they looked up at the Negro soldiers like penitents gazing upon the very throne of God.

Sometimes I pictured him enveloped in light, dissolving into the never-ending worship around the throne of God.

The eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can’t wait to see them around the throne of God worshipping in their own language, as Revelations 7:9-10 states.”