But even now the fully
consecrated Christian is pictured as standing above the kingdoms of this
world, having the harp of God, and singing the song of Moses and the
Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;
just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear
thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name?" And with the close of the thousand
years "all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments
are made manifest". (Revelation 15:3,4) These are looking to the
finished work of Christ.
HALLELUJAH CHORUS
[622]By faith looking up through the corridor of the Millennial age now
opening, we see standing at the further end thereof a perfect race of
human beings. Every vestige of wickedness, selfishness, and wrong has
been eliminated. During the thousand-year reign of Christ that old
serpent, the devil and Satan, has been restrained, that he might not
deceive the nations and peoples during the Messianic reign. (Revelation
20:1-3) Being released for a little season at the end of that period, he
has put forth his efforts again to deceive; but now these have ended and
Satan is destroyed, because God has decreed it thus. (Revelation
20:7-10; Hebrews 2:14) Abraham, the father of the faithful, and his
colleagues of like faithfulness, who have, under the supervision of the
Christ, directed the people through their Millennial trial, have
finished their earthly career and have been raised to a higher plane as
spirit beings.
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