Jesus Christ – Ancient of Days. Russian fresco, Church of Pokrov on Nerl, 1199.
As God He is mentioned in the Revelation fifty odd times, as "The One who sits on the throne" fourteen times.
At once, a howling contradiction arose with the entire context of the Holy Write, which says:
Our God is an invisible God!
"No man hath seen God at any time" –
the Gospel of John declaims (1:18).
Which is most forceful, provided one agrees with the ecclesiastical tradition averring that St. John the Evangelist wrote both Revelation and Gospel, and, moreover that the Apostle wrote Gospel later. St. Justin the Philosopher, who lived in Ephesus at the start of the second century and who was personally acquainted with many of the disciples of St. John the Theologian ("the Divine"), clarifies:
"The Holy Write asserts that God appeared to Abraham, Moses and other Blessed of the Old Testament. Yet he was not God the Father, insofar as God the Father was
ever higher than the heavens, never appeared to anyone and did not converse with anyone face to face."
Yet St. John tells us that he saw God! In that selfsame image God appeared before to the Prophet Daniel who named Him "The Ancient of Days" (Dan. 7: 9, 13, 22).
The Ancient of Days or the One who sits on the throne is the Lord God the Pantocrator: yet He is not God the Father. Provided we adhere to biblical reality and do not reduce the grandeur of the Epiphany to allegorical scenes, we shall be constrained to conclude that He who revealed Himself to St. John the Theologian and to the Prophet Daniel was Jesus Christ in His divine nature
Having told this, we already entirely have appeared in the realm of holy fathers theology, with its three dogmas: about the Holy Trinity, about the two natures of Christ and about the icon-worship.
The issue mooted is how it is possible to see by the human eyes Jesus Christ as God. The Holy Trinity is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit; not three Gods but One God; not one Person but three. Three Persons of the Holy Trinity are of one nature: if the Father is not to be seen, hence the Son is not to be seen and the Holy Spirit is not to be seen.