The message the Lord gave me some time ago was on “Three Thrones.” The first throne, that of God the Creator, is described in Revelation 4:11 as “created” features twice in the worship of “four living creatures”. In front of that throne, twenty-four elders fall down and join the four living creatures in singing “a new song”, which features “the Lamb” whose blood had redeemed them to God out of every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9).
This song results from “golden bowls full of incense*, which are “the prayers of the saints” and glorifies Jesus as Redeemer! In Revelation 3:21, the Lord Jesus promises the church at Laodicea that those who overcome — gain victory over — smugness, complacency, and self-satisfaction, will be granted the right to “sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on His throne”.
So, the three thrones are in fact one, in that the Father, in His position of total authority and power as Creator of all things, receives to His throne Jesus as Redeemer of those “out of every tribe, tongue, people and nation”.
Those who overcome are invited to join Jesus on his throne, which is the Father’s throne! So not three thrones but three who share the authority and power of one throne! Firstly, the throne of the Father; secondly, the same throne which He shares with the Son, and thirdly, the Son shares with those who have overcome.
Jesus said he had been given “authority on earth to forgive sins” — and demonstrated that by an amazing miracle of healing. And from his words in Matthew 28:19, spoken after his ascension, “All authority is given to me, in heaven and on earth”! Does this mean the Father abdicated His throne in heaven, so the Son could take His place? Not at all! It means that the Son’s authority had been raised to that of the Father on a heavenly level.
All of which invites us to use to the fullest the authority we have in Jesus to “reign in life” through his Name. Not to be ruled over by “the world, the flesh and the devil” but instead to rule them; to overcome them by “the blood of the Lamb, by the world of our testimony, and by each of us not loving our own life to the point of death”.
Declare to God that you intend to follow the path of Jesus to his level of authority! Not equal to that of the Father and the Son, but authority in as much measure as God deems you able to handle. What if the authority you exercise in the next life will merely be an extension of that which you now exercise? The level and extent of your authority then will, of course, be the prerogative of the Lord. But what if the Resurrection brings a body change from mortal into immortal but other things remain the same? How much re-evaluation of your current authority might now be required?