Now we're getting into some far more serious implications and rumblings that may cause some jaws to drop, and others to smile that knowing smile of confidence in the written word of God.
Dare we look closely enough, another item of distinction becomes quite evident:
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
The 24 elders do not have palm branches in their hands, which shows to us that there is a distinction between the saints BEFORE the tribulation, and those who appear before the Lord FROM the Tribulation. Those who came FROM Tribulation do not have crowns. And there's more:
Recall that the 24 elders are in Heaven BEFORE the Great Tribulation, not in the middle, not at the end, and not anywhere else after the start of the Tribulation. The elders have crowns and white robes, but although the vast number who came FROM the Tribulation also have white robes, they have palm branches. I won't go into the deeper meaning of the symbology of those branches since that is not the focus of this thread.
More to come...
MM
Dare we look closely enough, another item of distinction becomes quite evident:
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
The 24 elders do not have palm branches in their hands, which shows to us that there is a distinction between the saints BEFORE the tribulation, and those who appear before the Lord FROM the Tribulation. Those who came FROM Tribulation do not have crowns. And there's more:
Recall that the 24 elders are in Heaven BEFORE the Great Tribulation, not in the middle, not at the end, and not anywhere else after the start of the Tribulation. The elders have crowns and white robes, but although the vast number who came FROM the Tribulation also have white robes, they have palm branches. I won't go into the deeper meaning of the symbology of those branches since that is not the focus of this thread.
More to come...
MM