So every verse in Revelation is a metaphor which you can't explain except this one...This one is literal to you...
Revelation 8: 3 Another angel came and stood at the altar, 3 holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense along with the prayers of the holy ones went up before God from the hand of the angel.
And then you completely refuse to acknowledge this one...
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Did God teach your magisterium this understanding or did your magisterium think it up all by itself???
Do you have the Pauline verses that prove the Athenasian Creed’s Trinity?