1917_The_Finished_Mystery_Text

FM140Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil ofyour doings before mine eyes, etc."?— Isa. 1:15,16; Rev. 7:9.And whence came they.— Why are theyfiguratively represented as stained with blood?Revelation 7:14And I said unto him, [Sir,] MY LORD, thouknowest.— It is doubtless contained in yourprophecy.And he said unto me.— In Isa. 34:5, 6, "Mysword shall be bathed in Heaven: behold, it shallcome down upon Idumea, and upon the peopleof My curse, to judgment. The sword of the Lordis filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness,and with the blood of lambs."— D17.These are they which came out of greattribulation.— " ‘The tribulation, the greatone'— the twofold article being speciallyemphatic. See Rev. 3:10; 6:17; Matt. 24:21."(Cook.) "They are those," he said, "who havejust passed through the great distress." (Weym.)"The slaughter of this day of vengeance is said tobe of the ‘lambs and goats.' (Isa. 34:6.) Thelambs would represent the tribulation saints."(D17.)"The Great Company will pass through a greattribulation, with a view to effecting in them aproper penitence for sin and a properappreciation of the Divine standard of truth andrighteousness. This class, particularly large in thepresent day, will be delivered over to theAdversary— to suffer in a Time of Trouble suchas was not since there was a nation— the greattime of trouble with which this Age shall end.Such of them as fail to respond to thosetribulations and to seek the Lord will die theSecond Death, but such as respond faithfully willbe counted as overcomers." (Z.'07-232.)"Many such are now being closely bound in withthe various bundles of tares for the burning; andnot until the fiery trouble of the latter end of theHarvest period shall burn the binding cords of