Have you ever wonder who the 24 Elders are in scripture?

 

you sing about them and love the mention of 24 Elders but do you know who they really are ?

 

Remember the song we sing in seraph:

 

"Won korin Mimo

mimo o mimo mimo

yika Ori ite ,olorun awon kerubu"

 

Revelation 4 and 5 describe the throne room of God in heaven and its activities. Prominent among them are the twenty-four elders:

 

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I say twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. . . . The twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created" (Revelation 4:4, 10-11).

 

So who are these 24 Elders? 

Do you know they're the choir in Heaven?

Yes. They're the choristers of heaven

In heaven those we call Elders are choir.

 

how did I know ? The scripture says they have harp in their hands. They use it in praises.

They're heavenly instrumentalist.

 

The harp is a musical instrument, and biblically, it was used a great deal in accompanying the Psalms and in the worship of God (see II Samuel 6:5; I Chronicles 15:16; 25:1, 3, 6; II Chronicles 5:11-14; Nehemiah 12:27; Psalm 33:2; 98:5; etc.). Similarly, the twenty-four elders are responsible for praising God in song, possibly in conducting vast choirs of angels (see Revelation 5:11-12).

 

The golden bowls full of incense representing the prayers of God's people hint at a second responsibility: that of carrying out God's answers to prayer. Perhaps, once God determines how a situation should be handled, He leaves its accomplishment in the hands of these trusted servants, who, Paul says, are "ministering spirits sent forth to minister for [serve for the sake of (ESV)] those who will inherit salvation" (Hebrews 1:14). Though this function is speculative, it is not inconsistent with the function of angels elsewhere in the Bible (see Daniel 9:20-23; 10:10-21).

 

“Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever” (Revelation 4:9-10).

 

𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂

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