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Christian characters in the midst of falsehood and infidelity, those who
honored the law of God when the Christian world declared it void,
and the millions, of all ages, who were martyred for their faith. And
beyond is the “great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, ... before the throne,
and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their
hands.”
Revelation 7:9
. Their warfare is ended, their victory won.
They have run the race and reached the prize. The palm branch in their
hands is a symbol of their triumph, the white robe an emblem of the
spotless righteousness of Christ which now is theirs.
The redeemed raise a song of praise that echoes and re-echoes
through the vaults of heaven: “Salvation to our God which sitteth upon
the throne, and unto the Lamb.”
Verse 10
. And angel and seraph unite
their voices in adoration. As the redeemed have beheld the power and
malignity of Satan, they have seen, as never before, that no power but
that of Christ could have made them conquerors. In all that shining
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throng there are none to ascribe salvation to themselves, as if they had
prevailed by their own power and goodness. Nothing is said of what
they have done or suffered; but the burden of every song, the keynote
of every anthem, is: Salvation to our God and unto the Lamb.
In the presence of the assembled inhabitants of earth and heaven the
final coronation of the Son of God takes place. And now, invested with
supreme majesty and power, the King of kings pronounces sentence
upon the rebels against His government and executes justice upon
those who have transgressed His law and oppressed His people. Says
the prophet of God: “I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on
it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was
found no place for them. 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 out of those things
which were written in the books, according to their works.”
Revelation
20:11, 12
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Arraigned at the Bar of God
The whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of God on the
charge of high treason against the government of heaven. They have