Are you kidding me? A throne is the seat of power, literally. You only have to ask where that seat is located. That its no longer decorated with gold and jewels is beside the point. David's seat of power still exists exactly where it always has.
@ loverofhumanity asked me to pass this along because he was too busy to find the OP:
jeremiah 49:38
I will set my throne in ELAM (Persia’s/Iran) and from there destroy the wicked kings and scriptures.
verify the exact words but God’s Throne, which is none other than His Manifestation is to come from Persia, current day Iran which is where Baha’u’llah was born.
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I then remembered having read about Elam in the book entitled
Thief in the Night. The clear proof that Baha’u’llah was foretold in the Bible is in this book. Here is a subsection which addresses where the Messiah will come from.
18. Lightning from the East
I now began an earnest search for clues that would tell me something about the place in which the Messiah would appear. Two interesting things came to light. For the first coming, Daniel had given the
time and Micah had given the
place. Daniel had prophesied exactly when the Messiah would appear the
first time and when He would be slain. Micah had said of the place: “But thou,
Bethlehem … out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel.”(Micah 5:2)
Daniel had also prophesied with even greater exactness the
time of the second coming of the Messiah in 1844 (see p. 20). Therefore, I turned to Micah for a possible clue as to the place of His second appearance. I was richly rewarded. In
Micah 7:7 and 12 I found:
“I will wait for the God of my salvation … In that day also he shall come even to thee from
Assyria …”(Micah 7:7, 12)
The Assyrian Empire at one time covered the entire area in which both Daniel and Micah lived out their lives. Therefore, I chose to study those parts of the Empire, in which these two prophets traditionally lived and taught. To my surprise, I found that there were many other clues to follow as well. Gradually one led to another, until a definite picture began to emerge, and I knew at least in which direction to turn my gaze.
The book of Ezekiel spoke of a great Figure who would come in those days. He said: “And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east.” (Ezekiel 43:2)
This was clearly a reference to the
second coming of Christ and not the
first, for Jesus did not come from the way of the East, He came from north and west of Jerusalem. Isaiah in like manner spoke of the wondrous Figure who would come from the East. Isaiah said that it was God Himself Who had“… raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings.”(Isaiah 41:2) Even Christ Himself pointed to the direction from which He would appear in the day of His
second coming. Speaking of that day, He said: “For as the lightning cometh out of the East … so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”(Matthew 24:27)
The Jewish Oracles, the Sibylline books, prophesied that the ‘King Messiah’ of the time of the end would come ‘from the sunrise’.(The Messianic Idea in Israel, J. G. Klausner, 1956, p. 376). Daniel had written his words of millennial prophecy while in the East. In fact, he was in Elam, a part of ancient Persia, when he foretold with such startling accuracy the exact time of both the
first and the
second comings of Christ. It was in the capital city of Persia, Shúshán, (Ancient Susa, Khúzistán, south-west Írán) that Daniel had the prophetic vision that revealed the year 1844 as the time for the return of the Messiah. Daniel not only gave the
time 1844, but he also directed attention to the
place, saying that ‘Elam’ (Persia) would be given as a place of ‘vision’ in the latter days (Daniel 8:2). The Prophet Jeremiah speaks of things that ‘shall come to pass in the latter days’ and in the verse preceding this, he says: “And I will set my throne in Elam (Persia) … saith the Lord.”(Jeremiah 49:38). I came across a prophecy well known among the Arabs. Speaking of
the time of the end, it said:“When the promised One appears, the ‘upholders of His faith shall be the people of Persia.’”
(The Dawn-breakers, Nabíl, p. 49).All these prophecies clearly showed that the Messiah would come from the East, and they put a strong emphasis on the territory of Persia. It was something definite to go on. The circle was narrowing.
From:
William Sears, Thief in the Night, pp. 73-75
Daniel 8:2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
Isaiah 41:2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Jeremiah 49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord.
It appears as if the Throne was set in Elam, not in Jerusalem.
