Praise Jah for His Judgments

 In an earlier vision, John saw around the throne four living creatures, together with  the 24 elders that picture the Kijgdom heirs in their glorious heavenly position.  (Revelation 4:8-11)   Now he sees them again as they thunder forth a third Hallelujah ove the destruction of Babylon the Great:  "And the twenty-four elders ad the four living creatures fell down ad worshipped God seated upon the throne, and said: 'Amen! Hallelujah!"'  (Revelation 19:4)  This grand Hallelujah chorus is in addition, then, to the "new song" of praise to the Lamb.  (Revelation 5:8, 9)  They sing now the magnificent  victory refrain, ascribing all glory to the Sovereign Lord Jehovah because of his decisive  victory over the great harlot. Babylon the Great.  These Hallelujah peal forth far more melodiously than any Hallelujah chorus sung in Christendom chuches, where Jehovah, or Jah, has been dishonored  and despised.  Such hypocritical singing that reproaches Jehovah name is now silenced forever!

It was in 1918 that Jehovah began rewarding  'those fearing his  name, the small and the great'-the first of these being the anointed Christians who had died faithful, whom he resurrected and stationed in the heavenly  ranks of the 24 elders.  (Revelation 11:18) Others  join   with these in singing Hallelujah, for John reports:  "Also, a voice  issure forth from the throne said: 'Be praising our God, all  you slaves, who fear him, the small ones and the great."'  (Revelation 19:5)  This is the "voice" of Jehovah Mouthpiece, his own Son, Jesus  Christ, who stands "in the midst of the throne."  (Revelation 5:6)  Not only in the heaven but also here on earrth,  "all you slaves" share in the singing, with the anointed John class taking the lead on earth.  How exultantly these share in obeying the command:  "Be praisig our God"! 

 Yes, those of the great crowd are also numbered among these slaves.  Since  1935 these have been coming out of Babylon the Great and have experienced the fulfillment of God's promise: "He will bless those fearing Jehovah, the small ones and the great ones." (Psalm 115:13)  When harlotlike Babylon is destroyed, millions of them will join in "praising our God "-along with the John class and all the heavenly host. Later, those resurrected on earth, whether previously prominent or not, will not doubt sing further Hallelujah's  on learning that Babylon the Great is gone forever.  (Revelation 20:12, 15)  All praise to Jehovah for his resounding victory over the age-old harlot! 

What an incentive all of this gives us to share fully in God's work for today!  May all of Jah's servants devote themselves  heart and  soul to declaring God's judgments, together wit the grand Kingdom hope, now before Babylon the Great is unseated and destroyed. - ISAIAH 61:1-3 1 Corinthians 15:58. 

Next time:  Praise Jah for His Judgments - 'Hallelujah-Jehovah is King!'

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