Rev 4 1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." Christ is sitting on His throne behind  the door that separates Him from the world. He is the one who is and was and is  to come. So He is the one who directs the judgements of the nations throughout the history of the world. " At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. John is transported to heaven by the Spirit. The throne resembles the view we get on the earth when we look at the stones of jasper, and carnelian. He is teaching that God has made heaven with the most expensive items we see on earth. He describes  the eternal view and working of the throne of God. In other words when we view the throne it is seen in all the time sequences of the earth in which the King and the Elders and the living creatures were never resting in moving the time sequence. The rainbow , elders and the angels that cannot be numbered where around the throne in an unending circle.  Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.  John is comparing the throne to the description of the work of Christ who is with His armies in making war with the nations on the earth. John is teaching that Christ sits on His throne and is continuously bringing down nations on the earth. The whirlwind is coming from the throne. The whirlwind is also circular or eternal powers. Then we have the seven spirits who are part of this army that brings judgement to the nations along with the four living creatures. And  the sea of glass represents the peace that is always present in this throne room. These lamps never go out so they show Gods eternal judgements. "In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."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. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
   "You are worthy, our Lord and God,
   to receive glory and honor and power,
   for you created all things,
       and by your will they were created
       and have their being."
These four living creatures have territories on the earth as they go out of the throne. They are mentioned in the ot when they went out from the throne to judge Israel. The lion is to make war. the ox was to create wealth by work, the third was pointing to the incarnation and the fourth was the Father. These living creatures have divine knowledge in different territories when God judges the nations. This is a Trinitarian work. They are praising God who is the eternal creator who sustains His creation. He is making war with the wayward nations because He is thrice holy. In other words God is attending to His creation in bringing justice. The trinity is thrice controlling the creation and being worshiped as holy.  "Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, Now how does Christ enact the judgements from His throne? He is the only one who can curse the nations. Unless the seals are opened the saints will face the terrible armies of the nations. So the so John weeps because without the seals or heavenly curses the saints on the earth will be destroyed. Now here is the Lion who makes war as we see in one of the living creatures. Heaven is a mirror of Gods religious and military procession that is on the earth. So we have the heavenly curses directed toward wayward nations. So we have all of these different creatures and people around the throne which cannot be numbered. That shows  there is a an eternal view that we do not understand. How can the numbers that cannot be counted encircle  the throne? In our earthly view we do not understand. Is it overlapping or some kind of multi dimensional reality?