"I was looking down until chairs were set down, and the Ancient of days seated himself" (Daniel 7:9)
"The chairs": Why are they in plural? One for Him and one for David. So Rabbi Aqiba in a Boraitha.
Said Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah to him: "Aqiba, how do you dare to make the Shekhina common? It means one chair for judgment and one for mercy".
Did Aqiba accept this, or not? Come and hear the following Boraitha: "One for judgment and one for mercy". So Rabbi Aqiba.
Said Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah to him: "Aqiba, what hast thou to do with Haggada? It means one for a chair to sit upon and one for a footstool".
Babylonian Talmud, Tract Sanhedrin, Haggadah
Is it only me, or does the imagery of God standing between His enthroned attributes of Justice and Mercy not help his case?...
As for the two thrones being one for sitting down and one for resting one's feet upon, then -according to the Holy Prophet Isaiah- these are Heaven and earth: which would support the Incarnation, especially in the light of Psalms 99:5 and 132:7, where His footstool, the earth (from which Man / Adam was taken), is being worshipped.
As for the second throne belonging to King David, whose son was the Messiah supposed to be?
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