God’s People Delivered
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(
Revelation 19:11, 14
) follow Him. With anthems of celestial melody
the holy angels, a vast, unnumbered throng, attend Him on His way.
The firmament seems filled with radiant forms—“ten thousand times
ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” No human pen can portray
the scene; no mortal mind is adequate to conceive its splendor. “His
glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And
His brightness was as the light.”
Habakkuk 3:3, 4
. As the living cloud
comes still nearer, every eye beholds the Prince of life. No crown of
thorns now mars that sacred head; but a diadem of glory rests on His
holy brow. His countenance outshines the dazzling brightness of the
noonday sun. “And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name
written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.”
Revelation 19:16
....
“O Death, Where is Thy Sting?”
Amid the reeling of the earth, the flash of lightning, and the roar
of thunder, the voice of the Son of God calls forth the sleeping saints.
He looks upon the graves of the righteous, then, raising His hands to
heaven, He cries: “Awake, awake, awake, ye that sleep in the dust,
and arise!” Throughout the length and breadth of the earth the dead
shall hear that voice, and they that hear shall live. And the whole earth
shall ring with the tread of the exceeding great army of every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people. From the prison house of death they
come, clothed with immortal glory, crying: “O death, where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
1 Corinthians 15:55
. And the
living righteous and the risen saints unite their voices in a long, glad
shout of victory.
All come forth from their graves the same in stature as when they
entered the tomb. Adam, who stands among the risen throng, is of
lofty height and majestic form, in stature but little below the Son of
God. He presents a marked contrast to the people of later generations;
in this one respect is shown the great degeneracy of the race. But all
arise with the freshness and vigor of eternal youth. In the beginning,
man was created in the likeness of God, not only in character, but
in form and feature. Sin defaced and almost obliterated the divine
image; but Christ came to restore that which had been lost. He will
change our vile bodies and fashion them like unto His glorious body.
The mortal, corruptible form, devoid of comeliness, once polluted