Revelation 7:11 Revelation 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God The holy angels stand round about the throne; that is, the church of God; \ The twenty four elders sate round about the throne; \ but here all the angels stand round about the throne; which signifies, first their readiness to serve God, fulfilling his will. And secondly, their privilege to be present in the church, where God is worshipped, \ which things the Angels desire to look into. Thirdly, their ministration unto the church and saints of God, \ especially for their preservation. And fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God. As the Seraphims are said to cover their faces, \ because of the holiness and the glory of the Lord on his throne, in his holy temple: and as being ashamed to lift up their faces to heaven (as Ezra was; Ezra 9:5-6). The holy angels are spirits, and have not flesh and bones as the man Christ Jesus had, \ or have the angel hands, or faces, or feet, as men have; but this, and other like things, are mystically and metaphorically spoken of the holy angels of God, to signify their sensible apprehension of the holiness and glorious majesty of JEHOVAH. And they worshipped God; that is, the holy angels joined with the holy saints in the worship of God in their kind.