PSALM 41

TEHILLIM 41

13 Blessed be Yahweh Elohim of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Symbolisation of Deity in Spirit

John saw the Son of man similitude in the midst of the Seven Lightstands, or aggregate of ecclesias, and heard "the voice of the many waters" from their midst, as indicative of the source from whence the persons constituting the reality symbolised by the similitude are derived. The promises symbolised in ch. 2:7,11,17,26-28; 3:5,12,21, are all made to the constituent members of this similitude of the mystical Son of man - the "One Body" the ecclesia when victory is complete.

Another vision of the Sons of the Deity in Apocalypse is described in the fourth chapter of the revelation. When John was "in spirit" he saw the similitude of their manifestation when they shall be "in spirit" on the day of the Christ. He saw them enthroned as

"the twenty-four elders, clothed in white raiment, and crowned" (ch. 4:4)

He saw them enthroned in a stormy period, when "lightnings, and thunderings, and voices" were issuing forth from their enthroned omnipotence (ch. 4:5).

He saw the going forth of their power into all the earth in the burning of the Seven Spirits (ver. 5; 5:6), which seven, symbolical of the One Spirit, in judicial exercise upon the dominions of the world, he saw in the similitude of the FOUR LIVING ONES, omnipotent and omniscient - the One Spirit manifested in the redeemed, careering in victorious conflict, and proclaiming the superlative holiness of YAHWEH Elohim almighty, the

"Who was, and Who is, and Who is coming." (vers. 7,8).

He saw these in progress through the earth, contending for dominion over it, with the full assurance that they would succeed. "WE SHALL REIGN," say they, "ON THE EARTH" (ch. 5:10).

John also beheld the Sons of the Deity in Apocalypse in the mighty angel (10:1). This

"comes down out of the heaven invested with a cloud; and a rainbow upon his head, and his face as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire."

His lion-roar proclaims the consummation of "the mystery of the Deity as he hath declared the glad tiding, to his servants the prophets" (ver. 7); which accomplishment ultimates in the constituents of this mighty angel taking possession of the kingdom under the whole heaven; and the consequent establishment of the reign Of YAHWEH and of his Elohim for the Aions of the Aions.

This is the result of the seventh and last trumpet having exhausted the judgement pertaining to it. The consummation of this trumpet, which is also the consummation of the Seventh Seal, is the work of the mighty angel, symbolising the heaven-descended Jesus and his Brethren, the saints. The Seventh Vial is the work allotted for them to do; and in their mission they march to victory with

"FACE AS THE SUN, and feet as pillars of fire."

Again they appear upon the apocalyptic page in chapter 14:1. Here they are the sealed nation of ch. 7:4-12, resurrected, with the Lamb, Jesus, in their midst. Their symbolical number, a definite for an unknown, (7:9), is 144,000. In this vision they are stationary, as indicated by "stood" in reference to the Lamb with whom they are.

They are standing, awaiting the result of the proclamation which announces to the nations that "THE HOUR OF JUDGEMENT IS COME" (14:6, 7). They wait the issue of this before they go forth, as "the Seven Spirits in all the earth," to overthrow Babylon, and to torment the worshippers of the Beast and his Image (14:8-11).

In chap. 15:2, the Sons of the Deity are again apocalypsed. Here they are in the attitude of victory and blessedness. They are in joyous repose,

"standing upon a translucent sea, having the harps of the Deity"

This sea of nations had been "mingled with fire;" but "they had gotten the victory" over the Beast and his Image, and over his Mark and Number, which as dross had all been destroyed from the sea by the fire of their indignation and power; and they are seen here in "rest from their labours, and their works following them." This scene is the consummation of the Seventh Vial, in which it can be said,

"Thy judgments are made manifest" (15:4).

In getting the victory over the Beast they are apocalypsed in the vision portrayed in chap. 19:11-21. Here the Sons of the Deity appear in military array, in clouds of cavalry, styled "the hosts in the heaven," following "THE WORD OF THE DEITY" in his campaigns against the nations; which he smites and conquers in treading "the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of the all-powerful Deity." They tread them "as ashes under the soles of their feet," and bind and shut up the Dragon in powerlessness for a thousand years.

Having obtained this great victory over the kingdoms and dominions of the world, they are manifested as the occupants of thrones peculiarly their own; which continue undisturbed for a thousand years. Their victory inaugurates the universal dominion foreshadowed in the fifth chapter, from ver. 12 to 14. Peace being thus conquered by their omnipotence,

"the spirit is quieted, and the earth is at rest."

The Gentile earth and heaven have fled away from before them. With the Captain of their salvation they are enthroned as "the Kings of the earth;" and as a DIVINE MUNICIPALITY, possess the glory and honour of the nations (21:26). In this relation they are apocalypsed as the NEW JERUSALEM,

"the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is the Deity;"

looked for, but not yet seen, by the patriarchs and prophets of the olden time (Heb. 11:10: Apoc.21:9-27).

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