s as eagles to meet their glorified king and Lord;
see xix: 14; Lev. xxiii: 39-44. Here, they will serve God day and night in
his temple.--15th verse. Therefore all the work that is pointed out here in
Revelations for the messengers, (called angels,) to perform, will all be
accomplished here before Christ comes. Now we will turn again to the

FOURTEENTH CHAPTER OF REV., FIRST TO FOURTEENTH VERSE.

"And I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand; having his Father's name written in their
foreheads.--And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters."
Please turn back now to the beginning of the subject 19th page, you will
see it is the Father's name written in their foreheads--i. e., they are now
sealed--got through with their patient waiting time, and are marked with
the name of God; see iii: 10-12. In the 2d verse is the voice; this I
understand is God speaking after the saints are sealed, or Christ and the
saints; see i: 15, and xix: 6, as presented on the 96th page.

"And they sung as it were a new song before the throne--no man could sing
that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed
from the earth." [Margin says, _bought_.] Now mark! these were bought from
the earth, and they sung a song that no man could learn. This must have
been one which they had learned in their united experience, something like
the song of Moses on the banks of deliverance from the Egyptians. No other
people could have sung the song because it was the song of their
deliverance, for as I have stated these first five verses show this
144,000 in their immortal state, "redeemed from the earth," (not out of
it.) "These are they which were not defiled with women." "The woman which
thou sawest is the great city which reigneth over the kings of the
earth."--xvii: 18, called Babylon, (the nominal churches). These, then,
were the same ones that had come out of the churches; see 8-11 verses, and
xv: 2 verse. If the other view is insisted upon, then _all_ of this
144,000 must be men and the women would have no part in that number--no
matter where they are said to come from--"_for they are virgins_." Being
clear of the harlot mother and her children; and of those in the parable
of the ten virgins that went into the marriage of the Bridegroom makes
them emphatically so. "_These are they which follow the lamb whithersoever
he goeth._" The above shows that they did