ful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy
city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised
and the unclean.... How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good
tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, 'Thy God
reigneth!' Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together
shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring
again Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem." _Ib._ 52:1-9. "And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord." _Ib._ 59:20.

The standing of the Lamb on Mount Zion, symbolizes an epoch when Christ
shall assume a corresponding relation to his people. He there appears in
person; and "when Christ who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory," Col. 3:4. It will not be till he shall
have judged "the quick and the dead at his appearing," (2 Tim. 4:1), that
"the redeemed from among men" will "follow the Lamb whithersoever he
goeth."

The 144,000, who are with Christ, correspond with the number which are
sealed, "of all the tribes of the children of Israel," (7:4); and they are
doubtless the same persons, who, under the sixth seal, are designated,
among all denominations of Christians, by the mark of the living God. They
are there shown to be the godly, who shall be alive on the earth at
Christ's coming and shall then be changed, and, with the risen dead,
caught up to meet him in the air.

The sealing process there symbolized, is here shown to be the inscribing
of the Father's name on their foreheads. The subjects of the beast and its
image, receive its mark; but the children of God and the Lamb, are
designated instead, by the name of the Father.

The voice from heaven as the voice of many waters, with the voice of
harpers, is the singing of the new song which none but the 144,000 could
learn. Those who are translated at Christ's coming, will be favored above
all, save two, who will have lived on the earth, insomuch as they will
have been redeemed from the earth without being subjected to death.

These sing in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders,
who symbolize those who also are redeemed from among men and will reign on
the earth, 5:8-10. Consequently th