'Before God' in the Bible

and I saw the seven angels, that stood before God; and seven trumpets were given to them.

And the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of the saints, out of the hand of the angel, before God.

And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a certain voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God,

And the four and twenty elders, who sat before God on their thrones, fell on their faces, and worshipped God,

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came into remembrance before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his fierce wrath.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged by the things written in the books, according to their works.