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Originally Posted by Boxjobox
Ohio, you read Rev7 through the lens of 21st century Christianity and thus miss what is stated.
9After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands; 10and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb.
John was writing this in the 1st century, not filled with the same taint. The chapter includes quite a few ANDs to differentiate between God and the Lamb. You are obviously filled with a trinitarian view that did not exist at the time of John. A person reading this at that time would have the distinction between God and the Lamb.
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BJB, you constantly make erroneous assumptions about me, John, and the scriptures.
The throne of God and the Lamb is well explained by John's extremely well scripted opening to his gospel: "
In the beginning was the Logos (Word), and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. The Logos was in the beginning with God."
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BJB, it is not me or any other 21st century Christian who influenced John's writing here. Whether you want to label John as a trinitarian or whatever, he is consistent from the opening of his gospel to the end of Revelations.
Following the Logos' death and resurrection, John refers to Him as the Lamb, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth.
This Lamb of God is with God, and is God.