_Rise, and measure the temple of God._ THE LIVING TEMPLE OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE WORD WRITTEN AND THE SACRAMENTS The temple and altar, and them that worshipped therein, were capable of measurement. They were not like the unorganised multitude, formless, creedless, undiscipl... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will give power unto My two witnesses._ THE PREACHER A WITNESS AND A PROPHET 1. The prophecy under consideration gives us an undeniable evidence of the Divinity and truth of the gospel. 2. The prophecy under consideration assures us of the continuance of the gospel ministry. 3. We are here ta... [ Continue Reading ]
_The beast … shall make war._ AGAINST THE BEAST I. Among the foes which attack the Church of the Lord, either alternately or in solid phalanx, the present age is exposed particularly to one--the Beast, which sometimes arms himself with demoniac force, and again adorns himself with demoniac wisdom,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Where also our Lord was crucified._ THE CROSS OF THE LORD JESUS This passage strikingly identifies the Master and the servants--our Lord and His witnesses. They were to suffer as He suffered and where He suffered: one with Him in life and death, in shame and glory; one with Him on the Cross, in t... [ Continue Reading ]
_A great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither._ THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN I. We shall regard it, first, As a summons sent at the appointed hour to every saint. When the time shall come, fixed by irreversible decree, there shall be heard “a great voice from heaven” to every believer in Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven._ THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD 1. The judgments of God’s mouth, and the judgments of God’s hand--the word and the work of God--the manifestation of His truth by verbal announcement, and the manifestation of His truth by providential dis... [ Continue Reading ]
_The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ._ AVE, IMPERATOR This text is generally quoted in a missionary connection, and associated with the conversion of the heathen. But it is of much wider scope than that. There are plenty of Christians that want convertin... [ Continue Reading ]
_The four-and-twenty elders … fell upon their faces and worshipped God._ THE HEAVENLY LIFE I. It is a life of worship. 1. The persons who are worshipping are described as twenty-four elders. They are the Universal Church, the blessed of the old covenant and of the new; and yet, as persons and rep... [ Continue Reading ]
_The temple of God was opened in heaven._ THE VISION OF THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE I. The vision of the heavenly temple. “The temple of God was opened in heaven.” 1. A spectacle of surpassing grandeur. Its revealing splendour drinks up the mists of ages, and solves enigmas that have puzzled the wisest.... [ Continue Reading ]