Chapter Twenty/A Multitudinous Great Crowd - The Blessings of the Great Crowd

 Through the divine channel, John receives further information regarding this: "And he [the elder] said to me: 'These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. That is why they are before the throne of God; and they are rendering sacred service day and night in his temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread his tent over them.' " - REVELATION 7:14b, 15. 

On an earlier occasion, Jesus had said that his presence in the Kingdom glory would culminate in "in great tribulation such as not occurred since the world's beginning until now, no, nor will occur again." (Matthew 24:21, 22) In fulfillment of that prophecy, the angels will unleash the four winds of the earth to devastate Satan's world system. First to go will be Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion. Then, at the peak of the tribulation, Jesus will deliver the remaining ones of the 144,000 on earth, together with the multitudinous great crowd. - REVELATION 7:1; 18:2. 

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