Chapter Twenty-Six/The Sacred Secret -It's Glorious Climax - Jehovah Takes Power

 Christ enthroned in God's Kingdom -what joy this announcement calls forth! John reports:" And the twenty-four elders who were seated before God upon their thrones fell upon their faces and worshiped God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun ruling as king.' " - REVELATIONS 11:16, 17. 

The ones that offer these thanks to Jehovah God are the 24 elders, symbolizing the anointed brothers of Christ in their heavenly positions. From 1922 onward a remnant on earth of those 144,000 anointed ones got busy in the work that was set in motion by the trumpet blasts. They came to realize the full import of the sign at Matthew 24:3-25:46. Even earlier in the Lord's day, however, their fellow witnesses who had already 'proved faithful even to death' had been resurrected to take their positions in heaven, so that they could now represent the entire group of 144,000 in falling upon their faces to render homage to Jehovah. (Revelation 1:10; 2:10) How thankful of all these that are their Sovereign Lord has not delayed in bringing his sacred secret to a climatic finish!

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