“Here is the patience of the saints: here are those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Happy the dead who die in the Lord, from henceforth! Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their toils; and their works go with them. And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and one was seated on the cloud like the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him seated on the cloud, Thrust forth thy sickle and reap: for the hour is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he, who sat on the cloud, cast his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.”—Rev. 14:12-16. The announcement that here are they who keep the commandments of God, implies that, at the epoch symbolized, they are to be the subjects of special notice. By the voice from heaven, they are shown to include all of the dead who have died in the Lord; and their being blessed from thenceforth, indicates that they will at that epoch enter upon their eternal reward. The “rest” of the righteous, is at the advent of Christ:—“To you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven,” 2 Thess. 1:6. “There remaineth a rest for the people of God,” Heb. 4:9. On hearing the voice from heaven, the revelator looked, and beheld on a cloud “one like the Son of man.” In Ezek. 1:26, “the likeness as the appearance of a man,” upon “the likeness of the throne,” is explained to be “the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.” In Dan. 7:13, “one like the Son of man,” who comes to the Ancient of days, is evidently a symbol of Christ. In Rev. 1:13, “one like unto the Son of man,” is the one who was alive, was dead, and is alive forevermore. The same symbol repeated, must here also be a representative of Christ. His position on a cloud, indicates the arrival of the period when he is to be manifested in mid-heaven: “Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,” 1:7. “One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him,” Dan. 7:13, 14. “And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels, with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other,” Matt. 24:30, 31.