ose must symbolize the resurrected dead,
with whom the 144,000 will be ushered into the Lord's presence, 1 Thess.
4:16, 17. The two bodies of the redeemed, are therefore both represented
with the Lord on Mount Zion.

Their not being defiled with women, probably implies that they were not
guilty of idolatry, which is represented by that figure, Ezek. 16:15. They
had not submitted to the wiles of the woman seated on the scarlet-colored
beast, (17:3); had not worshipped the beast or its image (14:9), and had
been true to their Divine Sovereign.

They follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. All the redeemed will
doubtless thus follow the Lamb, for of all the "great multitude which no
man could number, of all nations and kindreds, and people, and tongues,"
who stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed "with white
robes, and palms in their hands," (7:9)--it was said: "The Lamb which is in
the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of water," 7:17.

Those who are redeemed from among men, are called the "first fruits unto
God and to the Lamb." They are not necessarily first fruits of the
redeemed, to distinguish them from others of the redeemed, but are first
fruits of the race: "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of _first fruits_ of his creatures," James 1:18.
By his resurrection from the dead, Christ became "the first fruits of them
that slept," 1 Cor. 15:20. And at his coming there is to be a "first
resurrection" (20:6), when the bodies of the saints will "be fashioned
like unto his glorious body" (Phil. 3:21), and thus become the first
fruits with their risen Head. Those who come up at the second resurrection
will not attain to that beatific state.

They are faultless, and without guile. They are not perfect by reason of
any inherent goodness in themselves; for "all we like sheep have gone
astray ... and the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all," Isa. 53:6.
The redeemed church will be faultless, because its members will be
sanctified and cleansed by the blood of Christ. Such will constitute "a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing ... holy
and without blemish," Eph. 5:27. While "the nations of them which are
saved shall walk in the light" of the New Jerusalem, and shall "bring
their glory and honor into it," there "shall in no wise enter into it
anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abom