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 Much of what John observes up there in heaven resembles features of the tabernacle in the wilderness.  This was constructed about 1,600 years earlier as a sanctuary of true worship for the Israelites. In the Holy of Holies of that tabernacle  was the ark of the covenant, and it was from above the solid gold cover of that Ark that Jehovah himself spoke.  (Exodus 25:17-22; Hebrews 9:5) Hence, the cover of the Ark served as a symbol of Jehovah's throne. John now sees the reality of that symbolic representation: The Sovereign Lord Jehovah himself sitting on his lofty heavenly throne!

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