The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

"Yes, dear brethren and sisters, we have to some extent at least gotten the victory over the
beast and his image, etc. The song is ours and we are singing it. . . . Then tune up your
harps, dearly beloved, and sing aloud our glad song of 'Jubilee.' Sing to your dear friends
who love God, despite what seems to them His injustice. But if they will not hear, sing to
the world. It will be a 'bow of promise' to them when they go further down into the time of
trouble. And if you cannot do this, sing it loudly in your own heart. It will joy and comfort
give you, to think of our Father's love and realize that 'His mercy endureth forever.' (Psa.
136.) It will open and warm your heart and enrich it with love, both for your Father and
for those who are the objects of His care and love.
"All who are true Watchmen can at this time see clearly, as one man, and can together
harmoniously sing the new song of Moses and the Lamb--the song of restitution, so clearly
taught; not only in the Law of Moses, which was 'a shadow of the good things to come,'
but also in the clearer revelations of the Lamb of God contained in the writings of the New
Testament, saying, 'Just and true are Thy ways.' 'All nations shall come and worship
before Thee.'--Rev. 15:3,4. . . .
"And we are told the reason why so few can sing this song--that it is only for those to sing
who have 'gotten the victory over the beast and his image and his mark and the number of
his name.' These symbols, representing earthly institutions which now hinder and bind
and enslave the Lord's people to creeds, must be overcome by every soul that would hope
to be able to appreciate this song, and to sing it in his daily life to others according to his
opportunities. Those who try to sing this song while in Babylon find their mistake."
God's saints coming out of the temple
"And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in
heaven was opened."--Rev. 15:5.
The opening of the "temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven" as revealed to St.
John should not be understood as a transaction taking place in heaven, the place of God's
abode, as some expositors teach; but rather that it is entirely pictorial, its symbols being
drawn from the Jewish tabernacle or temple; and we believe it portrays one of the very
important matters made known to the Lord's consecrated of the Gospel harvest period--to
those represented as having gotten the victory over the beast and his image. It is evidently
designed to teach the discovery on the part of the Lord's true saints of the significance of
those things symbolized by the temple.
Let us examine first the expression, "the tabernacle of the testimony." We discover that the
same Greek phrase is found in Acts 7:44, and is there rendered in the Diaglott the same.
The expression is that of Stephen. A careful examination of the words in their connection
enables us to understand it as having reference to the tabernacle erected under Jehovah's
instructions, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness or desert. He says: "Our
fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the desert, as He who spoke to Moses
directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen."