One day Tony was preaching at Carlinville Camp of Illinois in 1980’s. He asked the Deaf audience a question: ‘What do you think about when you worship God?’ Most of them responded that they visualized God sitting on a Great White Throne while they prayed.
Tony asked them another question: What color is God’s Throne? Most of them said, “White.” Tony explained that ‘The Great White Throne’ would be in the future at the end time. When all those who rejected Christ will appear before Him and those are ‘Judgment Time.’ Now what color was the throne that Ezekiel had seen?
Tony signed to them part of the KJV verse of Ezekiel 1:26: God’s throne was “as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above it.” Ezekiel 1:26 NCV quoted “Now above the dome there was something that looked like a throne. It looked like a sapphire gem. And on the throne was a shape like a human.”
Tony asked, ‘Now what color was the throne that God was sitting on?’ The Deaf audience responded with a surprise, “Not white throne? So what color is sapphire?” Tony answered, ‘Sapphire is a beautiful dark blue precious stone, which is hard and clear like a diamond.’ Tony went on: ‘Do you wonder why God asked me to preach about God’s Throne? God said that He has seen some people’s thoughts while they worship Him, ‘The Great white throne’? He said to me, “I want you to tell them that My throne was not white. It is a sapphire throne like Ezekiel has seen and it is beautiful.”’
What a beautiful thought! Our God cares enough to let us know that His throne is a sapphire throne. Awesome! May our worship to our Lord God become richer and lovely thought of Him!
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