See also what they are doing in Rev5:8, "
having every one of them...
golden vials [bowls] full of odours/incenses, which are the prayers of saints."
See
Numbers 7:10-86, esp vv.12-14,84 starting with "the first day" that they had "
one bowl of ten [shekels] of gold,
full of incense" (stated this way
12 x in this entire passage); and ending with v.84 stating "
This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed,
by the princes of Israel..." (the passage had listed "Judah" first, on "the first day" and then on down through all "twelve days").
So if "humans" have acted in this capacity in the past, why not 24 "humans" (along with the 4 living creatures, it seems to include, in Rev5:8) in this future setting... especially since there are "24
thrones" and "
crowns [stephanos] on their heads" and we know what Paul said in 1Cor6:2-3, "the world shall be judged
by you" and "
we shall judge angels," (and also speaks of our "Rapture" as well, 1Cor6:14 having
two distinct words for "raise" in this verse, the one referring to "us" being "future" [G1825]) then this makes perfect sense to me. [note: "judge" can have the meaning of "governing" (which makes some sense in view of the 1Cor6 context), and we already know the 12 will sit on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel]
[edit: to correct, meant to say "24" where 24 was meant

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