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THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

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and wonderful
He saw Heaven

glorious
things.

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upon His throne in glory. A rain-
bow, the emblem of mercy, was
over His head; and round about
the throne were the happy company
of Christ’s redeemed people, clothed
in white raiment, and with crowns
of gold upon their heads. And
they fell down before Him that sat
on the throne, and cast their crowns
before Him, saying, “Thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory,
and honor, and power; for Thou
hast created all things, and for Thy
pleasure they are, and were created.”

After this, John saw, in the
midst of the throne, “a Lamb as it
had been slain.” That Lamb was
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, of
whom the lambs slain by the Israel-
ites in sacrifice were only emblems
or types. He was “the Lamb of
God which taketh away the sin of
the world.”

And then John saw the happy
company of Heaven fall down before
the Lamb; and they sang a new
song, saying, “ Thou wast skin, and
hast redeemed us to God by Thy
blood, out of every kindred, and
tongue, and people, and nation.”
And then he heard the voice of
many angels round abont the
throne, and the number of them

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was ten thousand times ten thou-
sand, and thousands of thousands;
saying with a loud voice, “ Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain, to
receive power, and riches, and wis-
dom, and strength, and honor, and
glory, and blessing.”

After this, many things were
shown to John in vision, of which
we read in the Book of Revelation.
There is much in that book very
hard to be understood, because it
tells us of things which are still
future; but when these prophecies
are fulfilled, we shail understand all
clearly; and there is much which
we can understand in the Book of
Revelation, even now. It tells us of
that great day when the Lord Jesus
Christ will come to punish his ene-
mies, and to take his own people to
glory; it tells us of the day of judg-
ment, when the dead, small and
great, will stand before God, and
the books will be opened, and the
dead will be judged out of the
things written in those books, ac-
cording to their works. It tells us
of the lake of fire, into which those
must be cast whose names are not
found written in the book of life.
And it tells us, too, of that glorious
city, the New Jerusalem, where
only God’s people will be; where
there will be “no more death, nor
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain.” All these
things we read of in the Book of
Revelation.