When God came upon the Earth in Revelation, earth and sky fled from His presence. The sky will roll up like a scroll because of the glory of God. God is terrifying. The terror was first seen like this by the Israelites back during their Exodus and receiving of the law. Sinai was ablaze. No animal touching the mountain could be allowed to live, as God came down upon it. The Israelites begged Moses to not only to prophesy for God but also to mediate, positioning himself between them and God. This was because Moses was not as terrifying as God. They were told that one day another like Moses would come. This prophet like Moses would need to be less terrifying than God. Not himself God. Human, like the people. Jesus is seen in Revelation as frightening as he treads the winepress of the wrath of God, comes in the clouds, and rides in the lead of the armies of God, but he is not as terrifying as God. He is human: The immortal resurrected human Lord. He will be there soon to rule all people and all things, yet less terrifying in doing so than God, the Father, Himself would be. Then he will rule forever beside the Father on the Father’s throne. That will be because humans, even when resurrected immortal, will need a human on the throne. The Father, the only true God, will forever have even the Son subject to Him, but humans will be able to relate to God via Lord Jesus, the Christ, the man forever mediating with God.
