Revelation 3:21

He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

Plummer, and many others, see two thrones in this passage. "The throne promised is not that which Christ now occupies with his Father, but his own throne."[73] However, there is only one supreme throne. "God's throne is Christ's."[74] As we shall see in the next two chapters, Christ is now completely and gloriously enthroned. The notion of two thrones in this passage must be rejected. "God knows no other victory, and needs no other victory, than that which is won by the cross of Christ."[75]

To sit down with me in my throne ... "This promise of sharing the throne is the climax of an ascending series of glorious promises which carry us from the Garden of Eden to the throne of God in heaven."[76]

Many do not seem to believe that Christians are now sharing the throne with Christ, but in a sense they are; despite the fact of this interpretation being merely the type of the glory that shall come later at the Second Advent (which is also in view here). Howard stated it thus: "Christians reign with Christ as his agents in proclaiming Christ's authority for man's salvation."[77] Hinds' great summary of the thought here is:

As Christians are agents through whom men are saved (1 Timothy 4:16), so they are agents through whom Christ reigns. Hence, they sit with him in his throne, that is, rule with him. It is called the Father's throne because he gave it to Christ; it is Christ's because he sits upon it; it is the throne of David, because Christ, a Davidic descendant, sits upon it. Moreover, only one throne is supreme, that "of God and of the Lamb" (Revelation 22:1).[78]

[73] A. Plummer, op. cit., p. 118.

[74] James Moffatt, op. cit., p. 373.

[75] G. B. Caird, op. cit., p. 58.

[76] W. Boyd Carpenter, op. cit., p. 551.

[77] G. T. Howard, Revelation (Dallas: Christian Publishing Company, 1966), p. 28.

[78] John T. Hinds, op. cit., p. 65.