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Rev.4.6-7 "Four beasts/four living creatures"

And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

Here we shall compare these two sets in terms of their grouping. It is the head while the living creatures below served as the hand to execute the will of the Father. So we are looking at a circle with a square bound within.

Having said this let us look them in detail: the four beasts form a circle, "and round about the throne."e hands The living creatures on the other hand,'When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went."(Ezek.1.17,8-9).The four beasts had obviously hands,'having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints'(Rev.5.8). But the living creatures were distinct,"And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings./Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward." These creatures patrolled over the nations and Isaiah gives us a reason why. "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in."(Isa.40.22) In the two worlds framed by the word of God, the holiness of His mind we see in the four beasts and the Son directs the four living creatures. Father Son relationship sets throne above in terms of the firmament to declare the glory of God.(Ps.19.1) "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord" (Ezek.1.26-28)