REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Nine -"Hidden Manna and a White Pebble- Continue

 What a fitting symbol!  This manna was hidden in the Most Holy compartment of the tabernacle, where the miraculous light that hovered over the Ark's cover symbolized the very presence of Jehovah.  (Exodus 26:34) No one was permitted  to penetrate that sacred place in order to eat the hidden manna.  However, Jesus said that his anointed follower who conquer would eat "the hidden manna." Like Christ before them, they get to enter, "not into a holy place made with hands, which is a copy of the reality, but into heaven itself." (Hebrews 9:12, 24)  At their resurrection, they put on incorruption and immorality-a marvelous provision of Jehovah, symbolized by their being given the imperishable "hidden manna." How privileged that small group of overcomers is! - 1 CORINTHIANS 15:53-57. 

These also receive "a white pebble."  In Roman courts, pebbles were used in passing judgment. A white pebble meant acquittal, whereas a black pebble meant condemnation, often to death.  Jesus' giving "a white pebble"  to the Christians in Pergamum would indicate that he adjudges them innocent, pure and clean. But Jesus' words may have a further meaning. In Roman times, pebbles were also used like tickets to gain entry to important events.  So the white pebble may indicate something very special for the  conquering anointed Christians-his being admitted to an honored place in heaven at the marriage of the Lamb.  Only 144,000 such pebbles are provided. - REVELATION 14:1; 19:7-9. 

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