REVELATI ON ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty One - The Song of Moses and of the Lamb - Continue

 The fact that the molten sea in Solomon's temple was for the use of the priests indicates that the singers standing before the heavenly glassy sea are a priestly class.  They have "harps of God," and we therefore associate them with the 24 elders and the  144,000, since these groups also sing to a harp accompaniment.  (Revelation 5:8; 14:2)  The singers that John sees "come off victorious from the wild beast and from its image and from the number  of its name."  So  they must be those from among the 144,000 who live on earth during the last days. As a group, they do indeed come off victorious.  For some 70 years since 1919, they have refused to accept the mark of the wild beast or look to it image as man's only hope for peace. Many of them have already  endured faithful to the death, and these, now in heaven, doubtless follow with special delight the singing of their brothers who are still on earth. - REVELATION 14:11-13.

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