REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Fifteen - Songs of Praise

  How do those others before Jehovah's throne react? "And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders  fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp and golden bowls that were full of incense, and the incense means the prayers of the holy ones."  (Revelation 5:8) Like the four cherubic living creatures before God's throne, the 24 elders bow to Jesus in acknowledgment of his authority. But these elders are alone in having harps and bowls of incense.  And they alone now sing a new song.  (Galatians 6:16; Colossians 1:12; Revelation 7:3-8; 14:1-4)  Further, the 24 elders are shown  to fulfill a heavenly, priestly function, pictured  by that of the priests in ancient Israel who burned incense to Jehovah in the tabernacle-a function that ended on earth when God took the Mosaic Law out of the way, nailing it to Jesus' stake.   (Colossians 2:14) What conclusion do we draw from all of this?  That here the anointed overcomers are seen in their ultimate assignments as 'priests of God and of the Christ, ruling as kings with him for the thousand years.' - REVELATION 20:6.

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