The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool (Ps. 110.1 ESV)

Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him. (1Pe. 3.21c-22 ESV).

While the text says “right hand of God,” only Jesus will be seen sitting on this throne. The Apostle John, to whom was given what we call the book of “Revelation,” only sees a singular figure on the Great White Throne (Rev. 20.11). Likewise, Rev. 21 has singulars when God is speaking to John. The last chapter in the bible sums up that while the throne is God’s and the Lamb’s, only Jesus and the angel He sends to John are seen speaking. God the Father is unseen but has the Second Person represent Him.

Jn. 14.8-11 establishes that seeing Jesus, one sees the Father. Also, Jesus states that God, the Father cannot be seen by humans: No one has ever yet seen God; the only begotten God, the One being in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known (Jn. 1.18, my translation). Jesus also says that only He has seen the Father: not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father (Jn. 6.46 ESV). Likewise, Paul affirms the human inability to see Father God: who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen (1Tim. 6.16 ESV).