“Let me explain this to you (interpret scripture for you) The elders received the prayers and presented them to God.”
This is an assumption from silence- since the text doesn’t say that. Arguments from silence are never used as a basis of doctrine - or any assumption could become a doctrine.
Seriously, that is your position. Let's look at the text in context:
Rev 5:8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense,
Golden bowls full of incense being held NOT by God but by the elders who are presenting them TO God. Clearly God does not have them since there would be no need to give them to God.
Now let's see what could those bowls possibly contain? Hmmmm let's see what could they possibly be?
which are the prayers of the saints.
Oh that's right they are the prayers of the faithful (saints). So to recap the 24 elders are presenting prayers to God from the faithful. They are acting as wait for it......mediators.