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cnmsfs neon coanns.. 187John first us an account of the numbergivesthat weresealed in his day, out of all the tribes of Israel. Theywere sealed, as he tells us when he wrote, it bein finishedin the close of the Jewish dispensation.It beinga complete number, 144,000, and therefore could be numbered;and as these were sealed at the close of thatdkpensation, so John now saw in vision a great number,which no man could number, sealed at the close of theGentilediipensation, of which he has been ing; fbi' a er he has gone through with num prophesy-eringtwelve thousand in every tribe, he then says, Rev. vii.9, "Aiherthis I beheld," that is, after this sealing, bywhich 144,000 had been sealed among the Jews, hebeheld, "and lo, a great multitude, which no man couldnumber, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, andtognes, stood -before the throne and before the Lamb,clin their hands."ed with white robes, and palmsThisrevidently refers to the last sealing time among allnation; for lie again hears them singing the grandshams song, as at the close of the history of the seven¢l1!Bh@, "And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvationto Olll' God, which sitteth upon the throne, and untofthe Lamb. And all the angels stood round about thethrone,.and about the elders and the four beasts, andfell beibre the throne on their faces, and worshippedGod,»sa.ying, Amen: blessing, and glory, and wisdom,midthanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might bermta our God forever and ever, amen.". ,Thisahows usthat we areagain brought down theteam of time, to hear apart, at least, of the songfdtidi mo man can -sing, but those whose bodies arefrom the earth. "And one of the elders-117396, saying unto me, What are these which arein white robes? And whence camethey? Andhiln, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto= 7&se are they which come out of great tribulation,nbllrlashed their robes, and made them white in.kwlldod of the Lamb."This passage shows whoIohn gnlii how tg;-xy obtained _the.§¢|_~ ,w BMW' emposseg ,Qpljl the blood of theslung-'amathv Wm the slime sf G°d»md