And thanksgiving.—From “every creature which is in Heaven and on earth.”—Rev. 5:13. And honor.—To the Name so long and so unjustly and foully dishonored, by the eternal torment theory. And power.—Restrained for thousands of years, but now about to be exercised in man’s behalf.—Psa. 76:10. And might.—The ability to accomplish fully all His purposes.—Isa. 55:11. Be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.—Be ascribed to Jehovah for eternity.—Rev. 5:13,14. 7:13. And one of the elders.—The prophecy of Isaiah 1:10‐20. Answered, saying unto me.—Under symbolism of Sodom because of their identification with spiritual Sodom’s work and hopes.—Rev. 11:8. What are these which are arrayed in white robes.—Who are these of whom it is said, “Your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings before mine eyes,” etc.?—Isa. 1:15, 16; Rev. 7:9. And whence came they.—Why are they figuratively represented as stained with blood? 7:14. And I said unto him, [Sir,] MY LORD, thou knowest.—It is doubtless contained in your prophecy. And he said unto me.—In Isa. 34:5, 6, “My sword shall be bathed in Heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of My curse, to judgment. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs.”—D. 17. These are they which came out of great tribulation.—“ ‘The tribulation, the great one’—the twofold article being specially emphatic. See Rev. 3:10; 6:17; Matt. 24:21.” (Cook.) “They are those,” he said, “who have just passed through the great distress.” (Weym.) “The slaughter of this day of vengeance is said to be of the ‘lambs and goats.’ (Isa. 34:6.) The lambs would represent the tribulation saints.” (D. 17.) “The Great Company will pass through a great tribulation, with a view to effecting in them a proper penitence for sin and a proper appreciation of the Divine standard of truth and righteousness. This class, particularly large in the present day, will be delivered over to the Adversary—to suffer in a Time of Trouble such as was not since there was a nation—the great time of trouble with which this Age shall end. Such of them as fail to respond to those tribulations and to seek the Lord will die the Second Death, but such as respond faithfully will be counted as overcomers.” (Z. ’07‐232.)