The Revelation of St. John the Divine : $b An interpretationAmes, A. H. (Alfred Henno)
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The Revelation of St. John the Divine : $b An interpretation
Ames, A. H. (Alfred Henno)
Bible. Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
There is no mention made of any special priestly class, for the promise
shall have its complete fulfillment to all, “Ye are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood;” and all life shall be a priestly work and service.
Nor is there any allusion to the prophetic office as a separate
function. “They need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord
God giveth them light.” “The anointing which ye have received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you” (1 John ii, 27).
The prediction of Jeremiah (Jeremiah xxxi, 34) has reached its time
of fulfillment: “They shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know
me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord.”
Yet upon this point, more almost than upon any other, it is of the
utmost importance that we shall “distinguish the times.” We must
not assume, because these aids and appliances are not needful in the
perfected state of the kingdom, that they are not essential in the
formative period, and thus, at great risk and with imminent peril,
neglect or depreciate those means of grace which the Creator has deemed
necessary for our present condition.
4. _The Fruits and Results of the Kingdom._――They in whom the kingdom
rules shall have access to the tree of life, that heavenly wisdom of
which Solomon says, “She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon
her: and happy is everyone that retaineth her” (Proverbs iii, 18).
“This is life eternal,” One greater than Solomon says, “that they
might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent” (John xvii, 3). Their lives shall abound in fruitfulness. Their
ministry shall be, like the Lord’s, “for the healing of the nations,”
a remedy for all the spiritual and earthly maladies of mankind.
The curse of sin shall be destroyed, “and there shall be no more
curse.” “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us” (Galatians iii, 13). “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John i, 7). And walking “in the light,
as he is in the light,” and being “pure in heart,” his followers shall
“see God.” “They shall see his face; and his name shall be in their
foreheads.”
* * * * *
Thus with this sublime vision closes this marvelous book. There is no
truth revealed elsewhere in the sacred Scriptures that may not be found
in its pages. So complete is it, indeed, that “if any man shall add
unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written
in this book.” Nor is there any truth revealed in this book which
may not be found elsewhere in the Scriptures, so perfectly does it
harmonize with all divinely inspired truth. Therefore, “if any man
shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall
take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book.”
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