<p>4:10 <em>The twenty four elders shall fall down before him that sits on the throne and shall worship him that lives for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying</em>- Those who enter the Kingdom will genuinely, from the very depth of their being, feel that they shouldn't be there. They will cast their crowns before the enthroned Lord, as if to resign their reward as inappropriate for them. Indeed, they shouldn't be in the Kingdom. The righteous are &quot;scarcely saved&quot; (1 Pet. 4:18). The righteous remnant who spoke often to one another about Yahweh will only be &quot;spared&quot; by God's grace (Mal. 3:17).</p><p>This is another of many allusions to the emperor cult, whereby local kings and rulers knelt and cast their crowns before the Roman emperor. It was a statement of utter submission. But this picture is applied to the Lord Jesus, and contributed towards making Revelation such a subversive and illegal document within the Roman empire. The things we stand for are no less radical and break all the norms of the societies in which we currently live.</p><p>Because it is by God&rsquo;s will that we are created, because He is from everlasting to everlasting, because God is creator (:11), we cast our crowns of &lsquo;reward&rsquo; before His throne in a sense of unworthiness, just as David in Ps. 8 had the overawing sense of &lsquo;Who am I&hellip;?&rsquo; when he reflected upon God&rsquo;s creation.</p>