The One on the throne is the redeeming God, and He has the appearance of fire from His loins downward and the sight of electrum from His loins upward; we need to have the Lord’s presence burning away anything of ourselves so that we may gain God as electrum and be one with Him to express the redeeming God.
Lord Jesus, we enthrone You in our being. We deal with anything that is exposed by Your light, for we want to have a clear conscience, a pure conscience. May there be nothing between us and You. Keep shining on us, Lord, and keep burning in us until anything negative and natural in us is burnt away. We want to gain more of God. We want to gain You as electrum so that we may have the radiant expression of the redeeming God! Amen, Lord, be expressed through us today! Amen!
How amazing it is to see that in the whole Bible there’s a mysterious intention of God in His relationship with man!
This mysterious intention is not only related to God desiring to gain a group of people who take Him as their God and worship Him but it is much more. God desires to mingle Himself with man.
He wants to become the same as man so that He would make man the same as God in life and nature but not in the Godhead. Wow!
In the beginning of the Bible we see how God created man in His image and according to His likeness, and at the end of the Bible we see the New Jerusalem, the Triune God mingled and united with man to be one glorious corporate expression of God for eternity.
As we learn to enthrone the Lord in our being day by day, giving Him the first place in all things, we become part of the corporate expression of God, His glorious and radiant expression on the earth.
It is amazing to realise that the God in heaven desires to gain man on earth for His expression, and He does it not by coercing man to do something but by working Himself into man.
He is working Himself into man so that He would bring man into glory, making man part of His glorious expression. Even more, God’s intention is to work on man so that man would be on the throne.
Wow, God wants to bring us all the way to the throne so that, even as Christ overcame and sat with the Father on the throne, so we also overcome and sit with Him on His throne.
God’s original intention is related to man expressing God in His image and representing Him with His authority, and He is gaining this! Praise the Lord!
May we be those who cooperate with Him today for Him to bring us into glory and save us all the way to the throne! May we follow the Lord Jesus as our Pioneer and Forerunner, even the One who leads us into glory and takes us all the way to the throne.
The One on the Throne is the Redeeming God: He has the Sight of Electrum and the Appearance of Fire!
The Bible speaks of the same thing, from beginning to the end. The matter of the throne of God on which the redeeming God sits in Revelation 21-22 is not unique; it is seen throughout the Bible.
In Revelation, we see how the One on the throne is the Lamb-God, for it is the Lamb who rules, and the Lamb is in God; the One on the throne is the redeeming God. This is our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who is God.
For eternity we will have a clear view of His redemption, we will appreciate His redemption, and we will praise Him for His redemption. Hallelujah!
In Ezekiel 1, another place we see the throne of God above a crystal clear sky, we see that the One on the throne has the sight of electrum from the appearance of His loins and upward, and from the appearance of His loins and downwards there is the appearance of fire.
In other words, the One on the throne has the sight of electrum from the loins upward and the appearance of fire from the loins downward (Ezek. 1:27). This is very interesting.
Electrum is something unique, mentioned only here in the whole Bible. The electrum is a glowing metal, a mixture of gold and silver (v. 4). Gold signifies the nature of God and silver signifies redemption.
If we put these two elements together, the electrum signifies the Lamb-God, the redeeming God.
The One on the throne in Ezekiel 1 is the same as the One on the throne in Revelation 21-22. It is the same God, the redeeming God. He has the divine nature and He has accomplished redemption; He is our redeeming God.
He is on the throne. He is bringing us to the throne. He wants to redeem those whom Satan has taken captive and bring them all the way to the throne to sit with Him on the throne.
This is how God receives the full glory, when man is on the throne. Unless man is on the throne, ruling and reigning with God, God cannot receive the full glory.
But when man is on the throne, God can boast to Satan, declaring triumphantly that His chosen ones – who were usurped by Satan but redeemed by Him – are now on the throne! Hallelujah!
We may look at our condition and experience, however, and we may realise that we are not on the throne in our experience yet; we may not live like a king, and the Lord may not rule and reign in us.
If God were to weigh us on the heavenly scales to determine our spiritual weight, how much would we weigh? We may weigh hardly anything at all.
We are sons of God, we are born of God, we have God’s life and nature, but we need God to work on us and work Himself into us to bring us all the way to the throne.
We need to experience and enjoy the redeeming God so that we may be one with Him for HIs radiant and corporate expression. We should not look at our condition or situation but look away unto Jesus!
The upper part of a man, from his loins to his head, is the part of feeling, of sensation; this signifies man’s nature and disposition.
According to His nature and disposition, the Lord Jesus on the throne has the appearance of electrum, signifying the redeeming God.
He simply is the redeeming God, and when we look at Him, He is ready to redeem us and work Himself into us.
The lower part of man’s body is for moving; the appearance of fire from the loins downward signifies the Lord’s appearance in His move with God’s burning and sanctifying power.
He is burning in us to judge anything that does not match Him so that we may become the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function for HIs glorious and radiant expression!
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see who You are to us today. May we see that You are the redeeming God on the throne! Hallelujah, Jesus Christ as a Man is on the throne, and God is within Christ to be the redeeming God! Praise the Lord, we have a redeeming God who is on the throne above the clear crystal sky in our experience. Amen, Lord, we enthrone You in our being. We open to Your inner operation and Your working so that You may bring us all the way to the throne. You see how much we still need to be matured, perfected, and trained to be kings ruling on the throne. We open to You as the redeeming God to enjoy and experience You as the electrum and as the fire burning anything that does not match You. Burn in us, Lord, and remove all things that hinder Your shining. May only Your life and Your nature remain. Mingle Yourself with us more today. May we behold You so that we may reflect You. Make us part of Your corporate expression. We want to gain You as the electrum and express You to be Your radiant expression today!
Gain the Redeeming God as Electrum by His Burning to be His Radiant Expression
When the Lord comes to us, He comes first as fire; our God is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29).
We may think we are ok, we are not that sinful, and we did not commit too many trespasses, so we may come to the Lord to just enjoy Him. Indeed, the Lord is so rich to us when we call on Him, and we can partake of His riches in spirit.
But when we touch the Lord, we have the same reaction as Isaiah did in Isaiah 6: Woe is me, for we are sinful men, having unclean lips and unclean heart, and we dwell among a people of unclean lips.
When we touch the Lord in a genuine way, He comes to us as fire.
Then, when He stays with us, He becomes electrum, the redeeming God shining radiantly. And as He moves through us, He moves like fire to burn, enlighten, and search.
We all have experienced this. In our daily life, as we do this and that, we feel the Lord moving in us and speaking to us, even burning in us, for He wants to remove all the dross of earthly love, all the natural things, and everything of the self and the flesh.
When the Lord comes to us, He comes as fire to enlighten, search, and burn. May we open to His enlightening and searching. May we say Amen to His burning.
May we let Him discharge anything natural and negative from our being.
As He burns and searches and judges in us, something remains: the glowing electrum, the redeeming God shining radiantly, and we are filled with the radiant expression of the redeeming God.
Wow, He makes us His expression by burning and by adding Himself to us.
On the negative side, He burns and burns and burns, for there are so many things in us that are incompatible with Him. On the positive side, He adds Himself to our being, infusing us with what He is.
The result is that we gain God as the glowing electrum and become the radiant expression of the redeeming God.
The Lord shines on us until we realise that in us, that is, in our flesh, nothing good dwells (Rom. 7:18).
He shines on the division in us, the strife, the hatred, the envy, the self-love, the self-goals, the ambition, the selfishness, and the ego. He exposes so many ugly things that we never knew existed in us.
As we simply remain open to His shining and burning, He searches and burns anything that is negative until only the glowing electrum remains.
In the world, many people go through sufferings, tests, and hardships, and there is a burning going on, but at the end, because there’s no redeeming God in their being, what remains is only the self, a stronger and more determined self.
But with us as believers in Christ, our outer man is decaying and our inner man is being renewed (2 Cor. 4:16).
There is a momentary lightness of affliction and there is much shining, searching, and burning; the result, however, is that we gain the redeeming God as glowing electrum.
We depend on Him, we appreciate Him, and we lean on Him as the redeeming God.
We not only deal with anything between us and Him and enthrone Him in our being but go even further: we allow Him to search us, enlighten us, and burn us so that we may have Him remaining as electrum.
When others look at us, they don’t see only the burning: they see the radiant expression of the redeeming God!
If we simply remain open to the Lord as we go through all the searching, burning, and enlightening, if we just say Amen to what He is doing in us, we will have the great blessing of being under the Lord’s visitation.
He disciplines those whom He loves. His judgment begins from His house. In His mercy and sovereignty, He judges us in this age so that we may not be judged with the rest when He returns.
We may not like the fire and we may want to get out of the burning, but the Lord keeps us there by His love, and He burns as love in us until all the dross is burned away!
We are full of things, both natural and negative and old; as the Lord comes to us and burns in us, all the negative things are burned away, and the electrum, the redeeming God, remains in us.
When others see us, we don’t even need to declare that our God is real to us, for they see the glowing electrum, the redeeming God, remaining with us.
They have the impression that we are not light but are persons of weight, for God is shining in us and through us.
This burning and infusing is not just for us to gain more of God but even more, for the manifestation of the Lord, the move of the Lord, and the government of the Lord.
He is gaining in us what He is after; He is gaining the living creatures on earth that fully match Him and correspond to Him in the heavens. He is gaining the glorious and radiant expression of the redeeming God on earth!
Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. Shine on us. Search us. Expose what needs to be exposed. Remove by burning anything that does not match You. Remove anything that is natural and negative. Oh Lord, we are so full of things that hinder Your shining. We just open to You. We want to know, enjoy, and experience You as the redeeming God, as the burning and shining One. Burn away any self-love, envy, temper, selfishness, and ego. Burn away our temper, our hatred, our strife, and anything of division in us. Oh Lord, as the outer man is decaying, may there be the renewing of the inner man! May there be a consuming of the outer man, the removing by burning of all the negative things, so that only the redeeming God as the glowing electrum would remain! Amen, Lord, make us the glowing and radiant expression of the redeeming God! Burn in us and judge anything that doesn’t match You in us so that we may be the manifestation of the Lord, part of the Lord’s move, and fully for God’s administration and government on the earth! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Ezekiel, msg. 12, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 47 (msg. 11), The Lamb-God Being on the Throne within the City – day 5.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Then from out the flashing fire / Comes th’ electrum glowing bright. / God as gold and man as silver / Now are mingled. What a sight! / This bright metal, O Lord Jesus, / Is Thyself, Lamb-God sublime. / O Lord, work Thyself within us / Till th’ electrum in us shines. (Hymns #1201 stanza 3)
– Then from out the fire does the electrum glow, / Shining forth! Shining forth! / The redeeming God does our experience show, / Shining forth! Shining forth! / Let Him shine! This gold and silver One; / Let Him shine for all to see! / ’Tis the Lamb-God who has now become / Our enjoyment inwardly. (Hymns #1200 stanza 4 and chorus)
– Burn, burn, O love, within my heart, / Burn fiercely night and day, / Till all the dross of earthly loves / Is burned, and burned away. / O light in darkness, joy in grief, / O heaven’s life on earth; / Jesus, my love, my treasure, who / Can tell what Thou art worth? (Hymns #208 stanzas 4-5)
