The Acts of the Apostles (1911) — PDF Scan 597

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THE REVELATION 591 four thousand, having His Father's name written in their foreheads. " In this world their minds were consecrated to God; they served Him with the intellect and with the heart; and now He can place His name ^'in their foreheads." "And they shall reign forever and ever.''" They do not go in and. out as those who beg a place. They are of that number to whom Christ says, "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." He welcomes them as His children, saying, "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."'' "These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. ' ' The vision of the prophet pictures them as standing on Mount Zion, girt for holy service, clothed in white linen, which is the righteousness of the saints. But all who follow the Lamb in heaven must first have followed Him on earth, not fretfully or capriciously, but in trustful, loving, willing obedience, as the flock follows the shepherd. "I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps : and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, . . . and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. ... In their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God."'* "And I John saw the holy city. New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." "Her light was Eev. 14 : 1. ^ Eev. 22 : 5. ^3 ^^tt. 25 : 34, 21. 2* Rev. 14:2-5. 38 — Acts