The portrayal of the Lamb of God at the center of a cross bearing four crowns surrounded by a golden sphere contains a prophecy regarding the future of the earth. It represents the sign of the Cross (the Christ) over the four directions - North, South, East, and West - at the time of the Christ-ing of the earth.

At that time, spiritual consciousness will be raised so that all the earth's inhabitants will have intimate knowledge of God and perceive spiritual reality to be the underlying reality of life. The translation of the Latin words that form a ring on the golden sphere reads:  "The root (branch, stock) of David is victorious and rules from East to West and everywhere well."  This is a reference to the prophecy of Isaiah (11:1) regarding the Christ:  "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots..."

The angels in this picture sing in celebration of this victory.  The crowns represent the rulership of God through the Christ.  The Lamb, who resembles the traditional Lamb of God yet who is uniquely different from it, sits upon a Book, indicating mastery.  This is both a book of Divine knowledge and a Book of Life.  It contains seven rays, one of which is darkened.  These are the seven rays of God that have become part of the Lamb.  The dark ray is the power of darkness which has been absorbed by the Lamb, rendering it powerless as a separated force and enabling it to return to the greater Light of God.

The 'Cross of the Four Crowns' is an image whose origin is buried in the past.  Emerging around the sixteenth century, it portrays the future of the earth as a holy planet, an illumined planet, in keeping with the words of Isaiah, 52:9-10: