: his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed," Dan. 7:10, 13, 14. He comes, then, to dispossess the usurper,
and to take possession of his kingdom. The next representation, then,
symbolizes the coming of:

The King and his Armies.

"And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse: and he who
sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
judgeth and maketh war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on
his head were many diadems; and he had a name written which no one
knew except himself. And he was clothed with a garment dipped in
blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies in
heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white
and clean. And from his mouth goeth forth a sharp sword, that he
may smite the nations with it: and he will rule them with a rod of
iron: and he treadeth the wine-press of the furious wrath of God,
the Almighty. And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name
written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." Rev. 19:11-16.

According to the significance of symbolic language, Christ is here
represented as coming personally. The heavens open and he appears in
resplendent majesty, in accordance with the predictions respecting his
second advent. When the clouds of heaven had received the ascending
Saviour, the shining ones who stood by said to the gazing disciples, "This
same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like
manner as ye have seen him go into heaven," Acts 1:11. "And they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory,"
Matt. 24:30. "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him," Rev. 1:7.

The white horse of the King, and those of his armies, are symbols of the
pomp and grandeur of their descent, and show that they will triumph in
victory.

The names ascribed to the descending Monarch are applicable only to
Christ. He was "the Faithful and True Witness" who commanded John to write
"to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans," (3:14); for he who
commanded John to "write in a book and send it unto the seven churches" of
Asia (1:11), was the One whom John saw "in the midst of the seven
candlesticks, like unto the Son of man" (1:13), and who an