Amen, Brother Beacon and Sister Dorine!
It's accessible. It might not feel like it, but by faith, it is. You and I are invited to join Jesus on His throne. Do we deserve it? No--but it is a gift of infinite grace. His grace is so powerful that it not only secures our eternal destiny if we truly believe and walk in that reality, but it transforms us to become like Him with pure and holy thoughts, feelings, motives, purposes and actions that are the outflow of continual union and communion with Jesus in total acquiescence. Are you willing to be made willing? Then He can so mold and fashion your life by the Holy Spirit that you can prepare to enjoy the society of holy angels. Rejoice! Jesus is coming again soon!! He fills us with all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing to such a degree that the fallen nature, the world and the devil are kept continually in subjection to the Infinite God whose love is measureless and eternal. In this experience, there is no limit. Watch and pray, keeping your eyes on Jesus. It just gets better and better. Experience a life of total surrender. The throne is waiting for you to sit on it, too!
The following is taken from The Desire of Ages, page 834, and it vividly illustrates this glorious reality available to every repentant sinner willing to be transformed by God's grace:
There is the throne, and around it the rainbow of promise. There are cherubim and seraphim. The commanders of the angel hosts, the sons of God, the representatives of the unfallen worlds, are assembled. The heavenly council before which Lucifer had accused God and His Son, the representatives of those sinless realms over which Satan had thought to establish his dominion,—all are there to welcome the Redeemer. They are eager to celebrate His triumph and to glorify their King.
But He waves them back. Not yet; He cannot now receive the coronet of glory and the royal robe. He enters into the presence of His Father. He points to His wounded head, the pierced side, the marred feet; He lifts His hands, bearing the print of nails. He points to the tokens of His triumph; He presents to God the wave sheaf, those raised with Him as representatives of that great multitude who shall come forth from the grave at His second coming. He approaches the Father, with whom there is joy over one sinner that repents; who rejoices over one with singing. Before the foundations of the earth were laid, the Father and the Son had united in a covenant to redeem man if he should be overcome by Satan. They had clasped Their hands in a solemn pledge that Christ should become the surety for the human race. This pledge Christ has fulfilled. When upon the cross He cried out, "It is finished," He addressed the Father. The compact had been fully carried out. Now He declares: Father, it is finished. I have done Thy will, O My God. I have completed the work of redemption. If Thy justice is satisfied, "I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am." John 19:30; 17:24.
The voice of God is heard proclaiming that justice is satisfied. Satan is vanquished. Christ's toiling, struggling ones on earth are "accepted in the Beloved." Ephesians 1:6. Before the heavenly angels and the representatives of unfallen worlds, they are declared justified. Where He is, there His church shall be. "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." Psalm 85:10. The Father's arms encircle His Son, and the word is given, "Let all the angels of God worship Him." Hebrews 1:6.
With joy unutterable, rulers and principalities and powers acknowledge the supremacy of the Prince of life. The angel host prostrate themselves before Him, while the glad shout fills all the courts of heaven, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing." Revelation 5:12.
Songs of triumph mingle with the music from angel harps, till heaven seems to overflow with joy and praise. Love has conquered. The lost is found. Heaven rings with voices in lofty strains proclaiming, "Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever." Revelation 5:13.
