Arlene,


In "The Four Living Ones" which you suppled, the author concludes, because the four living beings are strongly related to the 24 elders, that they represent some element of humanity.  At the end of his article he mentions the man-child and I think that these living beings represent the spiritual nature of those he described thusly...  


"Those overcoming manchild saints had loved not their lives unto the death. That doesn't mean they all died. That just means they valued their life so little that if necessary they would give it and, therefore, they overcame and were caught up to that position."



This link from shamah-elim may help further develop this theme... 



http://shamah-elim.info/qa/q_joshua.htm



I do believe that the "four beings" are a symbolic picture of the spirits of those who are the closest to the Lord, the man-child company, those with the Joshua nature.  Why the many eyes, then?  If we can believe that eyes speak of judgments, per shamah-elim, then I would conclude that it is the fully surrendered lives of the man-child company that judges those who are Father's people but who would not fully surrender their lives.  In other words it is the man-child company who will BE the judgment in the House of God.


How 'dat?



Bob (RJ2)