The action starts when Revelation's author, John, sees a vision of a heavenly throne surrounded by 24 white-robed elders.

The heavenly throne with a rainbow around it, having the One seated in it, is revealed.

Yet Cyric knew he would need weapons to topple the pretender powers from their heavenly thrones.

Assuredly, it is she who shall sit on this heavenly throne.

As sweet music plays, a heavenly throne descends toward the stage.

Each in own brow wears his heavenly throne.

That is because he has been deposed from his heavenly throne.

It was no longer God who sat on the heavenly throne.

The concept of a heavenly throne occurs in three Dead Sea Scroll texts.

After bearing mortal children and establishing the human race, they returned to their heavenly thrones where Adam serves as the god of this world.