No one has ever seen God or can see God, what were the colors John used to describe Him in Revelation 4:1-5?
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All the colours of the rainbow are mentioned in the book of the Revelation, yet the rainbow above the throne of God is said to be emerald! I didn't notice that in the Internet computer graphic you showed. Yes, there's lots of emerald colour above the throne, but in no way looking like a rainbow. Nobody on earth is going to do justice to any artistic impression of the scenes in heaven.
In particular, the jasper and the sardius are asked about - their colour. Let me quote from this 618-page book on the whole of the Revelation, this bit being a comment on ch. 21 vs. 12 which also mentions the jasper:
'Her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.' In the likeness of the glory of Almighty God upon the throne, ch. 4, it was observed that he who sat upon the throne was like a jasper and a sardius stone. Likewise before the throne there appeared a sea of glass, clear as crystal. Shining out of the depths of the jasper stone, as of a flawless diamond, flashes of profound and glorious light appeared. This was a radiance from which all must perforce turn their eyes, even as the living creatures in the midst of the throne covered their faces with their wing... They could not look upon him, the light was unbearable, unapproachable..." The Revelation of Jesus Christ, p. 594, John Metcalfe
The author adds that sardius was ruby or garnet. "Amidst the clear, brilliant purity of the jasper came flashes of deep red, the colour of wrath." (Ibid. p. 9) He also says that this blaze of inconceivable light is not an architectural blueprint:
"It is this that is to be interpreted, not some imagined carnal literalism. What is being conveyed transcends all human thought, imagination, conception, idealism, comprehension, or capacity. ...that such a vision should be given at all, ought to silence all mortal flesh, draw all spiritual creation, and be received with that awesome divinity and transcendent wonder with which it overwhelmed the Seer. There is no room here for the mind of man, or for rational thought, in a revelation of dimensions passing all understanding. Such grace in sending the vision leaves the true worshippers prostrate in reverence.
At once allegorical, metaphorical, figurative, visionary; all of this. Yet, for it all, the revelation is as near to hinting of the reality as present words can remotely express." (Ibid. p. 593)
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