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God’s People Delivered
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his sin. Terrible was the agony of remorse as he met the reproaches
cast upon himself as the cause of sin. Faithfully did he repent of
his sin, and he died in the hope of a resurrection. Now, through the
atonement, Adam is reinstated.
Transported with joy, he beholds the trees that were once his
delight, whose fruit he himself had gathered in the days of his inno-
cence. He sees the vines his own hands trained, the very flowers he
once loved to care for. This is indeed Eden restored!
The Saviour leads him to the tree of life and bids him eat. He
beholds a multitude of his family redeemed. Then he casts his crown
at the feet of Jesus and embraces the Redeemer. He touches the harp,
and the vaults of heaven echo the triumphant song: “Worthy, worthy,
is the Lamb that was slain.”
Revelation 5:12
. The family of Adam
cast their crowns at the Saviour’s feet as they bow in adoration.
Angels wept at the fall of Adam and rejoiced when Jesus opened the
grave for all who should believe on His name. Now they behold the
work of redemption accomplished and unite their voices in praise.
Upon the “sea of glass as it were mingled with fire” are gathered
the company that have “gotten the victory over the beast, and over
his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name.” The
hundred and forty and four thousand were redeemed from among
men, and they sing “a new song,” the song of Moses and the Lamb.
Revelation 15:2, 3
. None but the hundred and forty-four thousand
can learn that song, for it is the song of an experience such as no
other company ever had. “These are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth.” These, having been translated from among
the living, are “the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.”
Revelation
14:4, 5
. They passed through the time of trouble such as never was
since there was a nation; they endured the anguish of the time of
Jacob’s trouble; they stood without an intercessor through the final
outpouring of God’s judgments. They “washed their robes, and made
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them white in the blood of the Lamb.” “In their mouth was found no
guile: for they are without fault” before God. “They shall hunger no
more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor
any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
Revelation 7:14
;
14:5
;
7:16, 17
.