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NASB | Revelation 19:4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 19:4 Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures also fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen. Hallelujah (praise the Lord)!" [Ps 106:48] |
Subject: Who are the twenty four elders? |
Bible Note: You're not changing the subject, stobor, you're bringing it back to the original topic. The discussion spun off into Urantia silliness only because someone tried to answer this question by citing the Urantia Book. We've all got to fight heresies when we find them, and I thought this one was important enough to shine the bright light of truth on it as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. As for the identities of the elders, the Bible doesn't say and so we aren't likely to find out until we get there. It is an interesting question from an intellectual perspective, but personally I try not to sweat the esoteric stuff like this and instead choose to concentrate on the "meat and potatoes" of Christianity. The fact that they are apparently rather important folks in the grand scheme of things who nonetheless spend their time praising God is the only important fact I take out of that verse. Kinda puts us in our places, huh? And charis, the software is stupid if I say it is! :-) Hyperbole is one of my more favorite literary techniques. |