Her bridesmaids, 'the virgins her companions who follow' and serve her,
are there, performing their divinely assigned functions. Above all
stands the great Jehovah God, whose wisdom planned it all and whose
loving kindness has been showered upon the multitude of his creatures.
Joy fills his blessed heart. His plan, as he foreknew it would be, is a
grand success.
[624]It is an entrancing scene! It is the appropriate time for the
Hallelujah chorus. The stage is set. The trumpeters with their trumpets
take their places, and the psaltery and the harp are brought forth. The
timbrel, the stringed instruments, the organ, the cymbals, and every
conceivable instrument of praise is in the hands of the heavenly host.
There is a breathless silence. Then the trumpeters peal forth their
paeans of praise, and all the other players and singers of the heavenly
hosts join in. This entrancing music is caught up by the multitudes of
earth and wafted back to heaven again (because communication has been
established between the perfect men and the perfect heavenly creatures),
until every creature which is in heaven and on earth and under the
earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, are
praising God, saying: "Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be
unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and
ever".
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