Will you please turn to Revelation, chapter 19? We will read from verses 6 through 10.
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth.
Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.
And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
And he saith unto me, “Write, Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
And he saith unto me, “These are true words of God.”
And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, “See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
Then chapter 21. We begin with verse 1, through verse 7.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God:
and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.”
And He that sitteth on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”
And He saith, “Write: for these words are faithful and true.”
And He said unto me, “They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.”
Let us have a further word of prayer.
Dear Lord, with grateful hearts we gather together again in Your presence. We want to thank You for all Your kindness, goodness, and faithfulness during the past few days.
And now, as we come to the concluding time, we do look to You, Lord, that You will continue to speak to us. O Lord, reveal Yourself to us. We need it desperately.
To You be all the praise and the glory, and the honor and the worship. We want to give all to You. We ask in Your precious name. Amen.
Thank God, by His grace and faithfulness, He has brought us to the last session of this conference.
My burden is still on a key to Revelation. Revelation is a blessed book because, as we find it said, blessed are those who hear these words, who read them, and who keep them.
This is a book that is supposed to be understood. Because if God wants to bless us, surely He will not give us a sealed book. He will give us an open book.
We believe that the key to Revelation is actually the key to the whole Bible: it is the revelation of Jesus Christ.
In the heart of God, there is only one Person: His beloved Son, our Lord Jesus. And it pleases Him to reveal His Son in us.
If we are His bondservants, then we find that Revelation is meant for us, that we may see Him, know Him, follow Him, and obey Him.
All the Bible—the whole Bible—is the revelation of Jesus Christ. This last book is the conclusion and summing up of all the revelations given in the preceding sixty-five books, bringing the revelation to fullness.
This book gives us especially the revelation of our Lord Jesus after His ascension. It is also the fulfillment of all the revelation we find in the Word of God. Here we find everything coming to completion, to the glory of God.
We have had fellowship on the revelation of Jesus Christ in relation to the church. We find that after our Lord Jesus completed His redeeming work on earth, He ascended on high. There He is applying what He has already done to those who are His.
So in heaven today, our Lord Jesus is our royal High Priest. He is ministering not only to each one of us individually. Those who come to Him, He is able to save to the uttermost, for He ever liveth to make intercession for us.
But we find in Revelation, chapters 1 through 3, that He is also the royal High Priest to the assemblies throughout the centuries. He is ministering Himself to His church in order that the church may be built, that the church may become a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing—holy, blameless, and presentable to Himself.
So what the Lord is doing today, as the royal High Priest among the assemblies, is looking to see whether He finds Himself as He has revealed Himself to us and as He has committed Himself to us. He is seeking to see whether we respond to Him in fullness.
If He finds there is anything lacking, then He will supply additional oil. If He finds there is something smoking, dying out, then He will use the gold of His snuffer—a fine discipline upon us—in order to bring us back to freshness and livingness in Him.
That is what our Lord is doing today, from the day He ascended on high even until this present hour. Dear brothers and sisters, this is what our Lord Jesus is doing today.
And hopefully, hopefully, we have ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches. “He that overcometh”—that is what the Lord is looking for.
Then we find the revelation of Jesus Christ in relation to the world.
This world was created by God, and it was created according to God’s will. What is that will? Creation does not exist for itself. Creation was created for a reason, and that reason is that Christ, God’s Son, may be manifested.
Everything in this world was to express something of Christ Jesus, His Son. Yet today we find that this is not what the world is. It is just the opposite.
Instead of expressing Christ in all His beauty, we find this world is the expression of the enemy of God, because Satan is today the usurper, the prince of this world.
But God’s will cannot be defeated. First, He tried to bring the recovery of this world back to God’s original purpose through man, because man was created in the image of God and after His likeness. God gave man dominion over all things, to subdue all things back to the feet of God. But man failed.
But God cannot fail. So the Word, who was in the beginning with God and who was God, came to this world as a man. The Word became flesh and tabernacled among men, full of grace and truth.
As the Son of Man, He defeated the usurper. He said, “If I be lifted up, then Satan will be cast out.” So our Lord Jesus, on Calvary’s cross, fought the decisive battle. He took the world away from the enemy.
On the basis of that, He began to reconcile all things in the heavens and on the earth back to the glory of God.
But of course, even though the enemy has suffered a decisive defeat on Calvary’s cross, he is still trying to delay the day of the coming of the kingdom of God upon this earth.
But our Lord Jesus today is the Lamb in the midst of the throne. He is there doing one thing: opening the seals of that title deed of the world, to bring this world back to the feet of His beloved Father.
Because of this, we find that after His ascension, even to our days, there have been conflicts, tribulations, wars, hostilities, death, false prophets, false teachers—all kinds of things going on in this world. The world, in the eyes of man, is not getting better. But we find the world is getting worse and worse.
But it is all in the plan of God. He will come back to judge this world, to purify this world, and He will bring His kingdom back upon this earth.
Brothers and sisters, knowing that He is on the throne—that He is the Lamb in the midst of the throne—gives us comfort and encouragement. We know that He is in charge. We know that He is coming back.
So when we see all these things going on, the Scripture says, “Lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
During this period, out of the travail that is going on in the world, our Lord Jesus is working out something precious to Him. Through all the trials and sufferings, He is trying to bring forth a man-child, to bring forth the overcomers of the church, to bring forth those who are maturing in Christ Jesus.
When we are saved, we are babes in Christ Jesus, for babes can take no responsibility. Our Lord Jesus is looking for many brethren—people who can share with Him not only His glory but also His responsibility.
So, for the maturing of the saints, He allows us to go through all the things that are happening today. You know, I often think how wonderful it would be if, the moment I am saved, I am raptured to heaven. That would save me from all the sorrows, all the trials, all the failures, all the defeats, all the tears, and all the wounds.
But, brothers and sisters, He knows better. He is using all these trials, temptations, and oppositions of the enemy to bring us into maturity, that we may be grown sons and daughters of God.
Because it is God’s will that He wants us to be conformed to the image of His beloved Son, that His Son, the only begotten Son, might be the Firstborn among many brethren. Our Lord Jesus said again and again that He will lead many sons into glory.
So everything is not negative; it is not just loss. The Lord is working out something wonderful in the midst of all the troubles.
Now this morning, we would like to come to the concluding part: the revelation of Jesus Christ in relation to the millennium, the age to come, and to the ages of ages, which is eternity to come.
This we find revealed in the last few chapters of the book of Revelation.
For the sake of better understanding what God is doing, we need to know a little bit of the administration of God. In other words, even before the foundation of the world, God purposed a purpose in Himself. Having purposed that purpose according to the good pleasure of His will, He laid a plan, a counsel, an administration, a management, to bring His will into being.
Will you please turn with me to Ephesians, chapter 1? Ephesians, chapter 1, verses 9 and 10.
Making known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him,
unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth.
So here you find that even before the foundation of the world, God has purposed in Himself. You know, whatever God does, He never does anything by chance. He has a purpose behind all.
In order to bring that purpose into fulfillment, He has an administration. He has a management. He has a way. He uses time as an instrument, and during time He progressively and gradually, according to His counsel and His way of management, brings all these things into completion.
When everything is completed, what is it? To head up all things in Christ—to sum up everything in Christ Jesus, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. Nothing is an exception.
I think it will help us to understand if we have a glimpse of the administration, the economy, the housekeeping, the managing of God. How does He manage everything? How does He bring everything into being? We see His wisdom and knowledge; we see His way.
Sometimes people call this dispensation. Now, I know there are people with different ideas. Some have extreme dispensationalism, and others do not believe in dispensation at all.
What is dispensation? Dispensation simply means a period of time set aside for a specific working. God, when He is working out His purpose, in a sense divides time, using time and dividing it into certain periods. During each period, there is something special in His dealings. That is dispensation.
I will not go into detail, but if you read your Bible, you will discover that there are very clear indications of these periods of time within which God works out His purpose.
For instance, if you turn to Romans, chapter 5, verse 14:
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of Him that was to come.
Here you find a certain period: from Adam until Moses. That is the first dispensation, the first stage of God’s administration. During that period, it says death reigned.
Why did death reign? It was because of sin. But so far as God is concerned, He is positive, not negative, because during that period it was the dispensation of promise.
Immediately after man failed, God gave man a promise: the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent, and the serpent would crush His heel. So you find that it is a period of promise.
God promised this to Abraham: the seed of the woman would be coming, and there would be victory and recovery. As you read on, from Adam unto Moses, you find promise after promise being given to man. It is a period of promise.
This period of time is followed by another one, from Moses to John the Baptist. If you turn to Matthew, chapter 11, verse 13:
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Why is it John? Because John is the forerunner of Christ. He is the concluding prophet of the Old Testament and the beginning herald of the New Testament. Here you find another period, and during that period God has His working plan.
It is the dispensation of law. Law, in a sense, prepared the way for grace. Sometimes we talk about grace, but as a matter of fact, if we do not know law, we will not appreciate grace. The law is a tutor that leads us to Christ.
So during that period, from Moses until the coming of John the Baptist, you have a period of law. It is as if God put man under law in order that they might learn to know themselves, that they might realize how much they need the grace of God and how much they need the Savior.
Following this period of time comes the third stage in the working of God: from the first coming of Christ to His second coming.
In 2 Corinthians 6:2, it says, “Now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” There is a “now” here. It is this age.
When our Lord Jesus ascended, He told His disciples, “Go into the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.”
So, dear brothers and sisters, from the first coming of Christ to the second coming of Christ, this is a period of grace. The Word became flesh and tabernacled among men, full of grace and truth.
Thank God, we are still living in this age. We believe that we are approaching the end of these things. It is coming, coming soon. This is the day of the patience of Christ.
But one day this age of grace will pass away, and it will be followed by another period. This is the period of the age to come.
Do you remember that the Bible talks about the age to come? In Matthew, chapter 12, our Lord Jesus said that if you sin against the Holy Spirit, you will not be forgiven, neither in this age nor in the age to come.
And in Hebrews, chapter 6, some people have tasted the powers of the age to come. So you know there will be another age ushered in after the ending of this age. This age is called the millennium because it is one thousand years.
After the millennium, after the thousand years are over, Satan, as you find in Revelation, will be loosed for the last revolt. After that comes eternity—the ages of ages—the new heaven, the new earth, and the new Jerusalem.
There you find the administration of God to fulfill and complete His eternal purpose. So our consideration this morning is the revelation of Jesus Christ in relation to the millennium and to eternity to come.
So far as God’s people are concerned, what are we waiting for today? What is our blessed hope? We are looking forward to the coming of our Lord Jesus.
Dear brothers and sisters, I think there is much misunderstanding among God’s people concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus. As a matter of fact, there are many hymns that we sing which are scripturally incorrect.
We think of the coming of the Lord Jesus as though He will come in the clouds, with the angels, with trumpets sounding, and then we will be gathered together to Him. But, dear brothers and sisters, that is a little bit too late.
Why? Because His coming—parousia, His presence—is not one event. The word parousia, “presence,” according to the original, means a period of time including a series of events.
How will He be coming? Very simply: you remember Acts, chapter 1. He was on the Mount of Olives with His disciples. Then God took Him; His feet left the Mount of Olives, and He ascended.
All the believers, the Galileans, looked up, and they saw Him gradually ascending. Then what happened? A cloud took Him. Could they see Him in the cloud? Of course not. But they were still looking up.
Then two men in white appeared and said, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld Him going into heaven.”
What was the way He went? He went in two stages. The first stage was from the Mount of Olives to the cloud: visible. The second stage was from the cloud to the throne: invisible.
So His coming is the reverse of His ascension. The first stage of His coming, of His presence, is that He will descend from the throne to the air: invisible.
The Bible says He will come like a thief. Will a thief sound a trumpet telling you he is coming? No, he comes secretly. And when he comes, he comes to steal your treasure, not your trash.
So the Bible tells us that the coming of the Lord is symbolized by two different signs. One is that He will come like a thief—invisible—and will steal away that which answers to His heart, the treasure of His heart.
There is another sign. The Lord said that as the lightning shines from one end of heaven to the other end, so will His coming be. His coming will be open and seen by everyone.
That is, He will break through the cloud, coming down from the cloud and descending on the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives will be broken into two so that the children of Israel can escape. They will see Him; everybody will see Him. He will be visible to all.
So, dear brothers and sisters, actually the coming of the Lord begins from the throne to the air.
That is the reason why we find in Revelation, chapter 12, that the woman was in travail. The church is in travail to give birth to a man-child. As soon as that man-child is born, immediately he is caught up to the throne.
You know, from the earth to the throne, which is in the third heaven, you have to break through the air, right? And the air is the headquarters of Satan today. Anyone who can break through this headquarters of Satan must be an overcomer. Because he has overcome, he is able to go through it and reach the throne.
In Matthew, chapter 24, what happens at the coming of the Lord? The coming of the Lord will be like the days of Noah. When two men are working in a field, two women are grinding at the mill, or two men are sleeping, suddenly one is taken and one is left.
The word “taken” is the same word used of our Lord being taken up into heaven. So, dear brothers and sisters, how will the coming of the Lord begin? Suddenly—all over this world. It can happen at any time.
Do not think that there are still prophecies to be fulfilled before the Lord can come. No. All the prophecies concerning the coming of the Lord have been fulfilled. There are other prophecies waiting to be fulfilled at and after His coming, but all the prophecies concerning the beginning of the parousia have been fulfilled.
So we are living in a very thrilling time, brothers and sisters. We are not here waiting to die. We are waiting to be raptured alive.
If we are waiting, if we are watching, if we are praying, if we follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, brothers and sisters, when He shall come, He will steal you away, because you are the treasure of His heart.
That begins the parousia. As soon as this man-child—this is a collective term—comes forth, they overcome Satan because of the blood of the Lamb, because of the word of their testimony, and because they loved not their lives even unto death.
When they arrive at the throne, do you know what happens in Revelation, chapter 12? There will be war in the air. Michael and his angels will fight with Satan and his angels. The air will be cleared of Satan, and Satan will be thrown down upon this earth.
Why? To clear the air for the Lord to descend from the throne to the air. Satan is thrown down upon this earth, and what happens to the earth? You find the trinity of evil—Satan, the beast, and the false prophet—all on the earth. What can it be but the great tribulation?
Brothers and sisters, after the three and a half years of great tribulation, we will find our Lord descending from the air to the earth. Trumpets will sound, all who are dead in Christ Jesus will be raised, and those who remain will be changed. All will be taken to the air to meet the Lord.
That will be the time of the judgment seat of Christ, to decide who is to inherit the millennium, the kingdom of the heavens during the thousand years, to reign with Christ, and who is disqualified—saved, but as through fire.
Then our Lord will come, and when His feet touch the Mount of Olives, the Mount of Olives will be broken into two. You find that in Zechariah. Why? He comes to save His chosen people, Israel.
The Bible speaks of the Messianic kingdom. God promised Abraham and the children of Israel. God chose them and committed Himself to them. Unfortunately, they failed.
Israel was temporarily set aside, and we Gentiles began to come into the grace of God. But, as we mentioned already, there is still a godly remnant among the children of Israel throughout the centuries.
God’s will cannot be defeated. All the promises of God to Israel will be fulfilled. In the Old Testament, you find many prophecies concerning this Messianic kingdom. The Messiah will come, and Israel will be made the first of the nations. They will become a nation of priests. They will go to the nations to declare the glory of God.
If you turn to Isaiah, chapter 2, perhaps we may read it to give us an impression.
And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many peoples shall go and say, “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem;
and He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Then, in Isaiah, chapter 11:
And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
And His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord; and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither decide after the hearing of His ears;
but with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth; and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of His waist, and faithfulness the girdle of His loins.
And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto Him shall the nations seek; and His resting-place shall be glorious.
There are many, many other prophecies. When the children of Israel are in their last trouble, our Lord will come to deliver them.
In Zechariah, chapter 12, they shall see Him. The children of Israel, as a whole, are still in unbelief. God has already begun to return to His people, and that is the reason why the nation of Israel was re-established. But even to this day, Israel as a nation is still in unbelief.
They will yet suffer until the day when they shall look upon Him, when they shall see Him. Then all Israel will repent and be saved. That is Zechariah, chapters 12 through 14.
So, in other words, the day is coming when the kingdom of the heavens shall appear upon this earth.
Now, just a few words. We are very much confused about the kingdom of the heavens, the heavenly kingdom. When Christ returns and establishes His kingdom on earth, we wonder how this is.
To put it very simply, I am not trying to interpret everything. People have different interpretations. I just try to show the spirit of it.
As a matter of fact, the thousand years, the millennial kingdom, has two parts. There is a heavenly part and an earthly part. The earthly part is the Messianic kingdom.
When Israel is saved, they will become the first of the nations. They will be priests unto God. They will go out to the nations during that millennium to declare the glory of God. All the promises God gave to Abraham will be literally and physically fulfilled.
But this is not what we want to consider now. We want to consider what will happen to us.
Here you find the heavenly part of the millennial kingdom. During that time, Christ will reign as the King of kings and Lord of lords. Israel will acknowledge Him as their King, their Messiah.
But our Lord will reign above, not on the earth. He will reign in heaven. That is why it is called the kingdom of the heavens. While He is reigning from above upon the whole earth, He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
There will be those who will reign with Him. Who are the people who will reign with Him? The overcomers of the church throughout the ages. They shall reign with Christ for one thousand years.
Why? Because while they were on earth, they were trained for this. They were fitted to reign, and they will be rewarded with reigning with Christ through that whole thousand years.
But, dear brothers and sisters, what is more wonderful for us is not this reigning. What is more wonderful to us is found in Revelation, chapter 19.
God’s kingdom is coming. The bride has made herself ready, and it was given to her to be clothed in fine linen, bright and pure—the righteous acts of the saints. The marriage supper of the Lamb has come, and those who are invited to attend it are all blessed.
No, brothers and sisters, it is not our reigning that we are looking for. It is the Bridegroom that we are looking for.
During the millennium, our Lord Jesus finally has His bride. During His days on earth, He came as a Bridegroom searching for His bride, but He could find nobody. He could only find the sick, the blind, the crippled, and the dead.
So that is why He had to die, that out of His death came water and blood. Just as Eve came out of Adam, so the church comes out of His side.
During this time of grace, He is preparing His bride, getting His bride ready. Somehow His bride is still not ready.
Sometimes we think we are waiting for Christ, but it is more correct to say Christ is waiting for us. You never find a wedding where the bride is waiting for the bridegroom. It is always the bridegroom waiting for the bride, right?
I only know of one case, and that is Hudson Taylor’s great-grandfather. When Hudson Taylor’s great-grandfather was a young man, he was an easygoing person. But on the day that he was to be married, in the morning when he got up, he suddenly realized he was to be married.
He would have a family, and that was a great responsibility. So he went to the field and prayed. He prayed and prayed and prayed. He forgot the time.
After he had prayed and viewed the matter before God, presenting himself to God and looking to the grace of God, he suddenly realized that it was his day of marriage. It was late.
The bride was waiting, the guests were waiting, and they wondered, “Where is the bridegroom?” So he hurriedly went to the place, and they got married.
The first night after they were married, he told his new wife, “We must pray.” That was strange. The bride was taken by surprise. From that day on, look at the family of the Taylors: generation after generation, they served God.
Brothers and sisters, Christ is waiting for us. Are we waiting for Him? Are we looking to see Him?
It is not the reward. It is He Himself. The heart of the Bridegroom is on the bride. Thank God, during the millennium, He finally has His bride.
But when you come to Revelation, chapter 21, another bride appears. You know, chapter 21 is the new heaven and the new earth.
He has His bride during the millennium to share with Him in His glory and reigning. But when you come to the new heaven and the new earth, you find another occasion: the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven upon the earth, and it is a bride adorned for her husband.
Is it two weddings, or one wedding? Two brides, or one bride?
During the millennium, our Lord Jesus has His bride in the overcomers of the church. But in eternity, His bride is the consummation, the gathering together, of all His work from the beginning to the very end.
All will be consummated in New Jerusalem, and it will be His eternal bride.
In other words, New Jerusalem has the names of the twelve tribes of Israel on its gates. All that God has done in the nation of Israel will be consummated in that New Jerusalem.
All that God has done in the church will be consummated in New Jerusalem, because its twelve foundations bear the names of the twelve apostles.
So the day is coming, in eternity, when all the redeeming work of our Lord Jesus—of God—will be gathered together and become the eternal bride of the eternal Bridegroom.
Brothers and sisters, in eternity it is all summed up in Christ. Everything is summed up in Christ, and the glory is the glory of God.
Brothers and sisters, no wonder John, who knew the Lord so well, twice—from chapter 19 to chapter 22—when he saw that vision and heard these things to be done, lost himself.
He bowed down to the angel and worshiped. Why? Because it was so good, so wonderful. He was completely taken and carried away, and he forgot himself.
The angel had to correct him twice and say, “Worship God. Do not worship me. I am only a fellow-servant, just as you are. The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.”
Brothers and sisters, I asked myself this morning: when I see Christ in the kingdom and in eternity, and see what is done, am I so surprised, so overwhelmed, that I forget myself? Is that my reaction?
Brothers and sisters, is that your reaction? Oh, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world—He is there in eternity.
We see God on the throne, and the Lamb. His servants shall serve Him through the ages of ages, and they shall see His face.
Brothers and sisters, praise the Lord. Amen.