We have already been introduced to these twenty-four elders in Revelation 4:4. The significance of these elders in the current context is what they did: they fell on their faces and worshipped God. This is the third time that we read of these elders falling on their faces and singing of God’s praises (see Revelation 4:10–11; Revelation 5:8–10).
16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,