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God and working righteousness? There too, in that nation, I approach more nearly to the individual heart, and say, What is its relation to that world Col. 3. 2. which is the beast? Are its affections set on things above, and not on things on the earth? Is that heart the abode of God's Spirit, or is it the hold of unclean and hateful things? And as I hear, I tremble; tremble lest this steed and its rider be in that nation, in that heart, exemplified again; tremble lest in the day of God's last judgment, which shall be not upon extinct nations and not upon historical events, but upon individual living men, we should be told that we never obeyed the charge to come forth out of Babylon, but, having been partakers of her sins, must expect to receive also of her plagues.

God save us all from that condemnation, giving Heb. 3. 13. us grace, while it is called today, to hear and fear!

FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT,

March 30, 1852.

LECTURE XXXIII,

REVELATION XIX.

AFTER these things I heard as it were a mighty voice I of a great multitude in the heaven, [even of persons] saying, Alleluia: the salvation and the glory and the power [are] our God's; because true and righteous are His judg- 2 ments; because He judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth in (through) her fornication, and avenged the blood of His servants out of her hand. And a second time 3 they have said, Alleluia. And her smoke is ascending unto the ages of the ages. And the twenty-four elders fell, and 4 the four living creatures, and worshipped God who is seated upon the throne, saying, Amen, Alleluia. And a 5 voice came out from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all His servants and they who fear Him, the small and the great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great 6 multitude, and as it were a voice of many waters, and as it were a voice of mighty thunders, [persons] saying, Alleluia: because He reigned, the Lord, our God, the Almighty. Let us rejoice and exult, and we will give the glory to Him; 7 because there came the marriage of the Lamb, and His wife prepared herself: and it was given to her that she should 8

clothe herself in fine linen, bright, pure: for the fine linen 9 is the righteousnesses of the saints. And he saith to me, Write: Blessed are they who have been called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he saith to me, These 10 are the true words of God. And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he saith to me, See [thou do it] not: I am a fellow-servant of thee and of thy brethren who hare the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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AND I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a horse [all] white, and One that is seated upon him called Faithful 12 and True, and in righteousness He judges and wars. And His eyes [are] a flame of fire, and upon His head [are] many diadems, [He] having names written, and a name 13 written which no one knows but He Himself, and clothed in a robe dyed with blood; and His name is called THE 14 WORD OF GOD. And the armies that are in the heavens were following Him upon horses [all] white, clad in fine 15 linen, white, pure. And out of His mouth goes forth a sharp sword, that in (with) it He may smite the nations; and He Himself shall shepherd (rule) them in (with) a rod of iron, and He Himself treads the winepress of the 16 wrath of the anger of God the Almighty. And He has upon His robe and upon His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

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AND I saw one (a certain) angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Hither, be ye gathered together to the great sup18 per of God, that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of commanders of thousands, and flesh of mighty men, and flesh

of horses and of those who are seated upon them, and flesh of all, both free and bond men, and both small and great. And I saw the wild beast, and the kings of the earth and 19 their armies, gathered together to make (wage) the war with Him who is seated upon the horse and with His army. And the wild beast was seized, and the false prophet who 20 was with him, who did the signs in his presence, in (through) which he led astray those who had received the mark of the wild beast, and who were worshipping his image: alive were they cast, the two, into the lake of fire which burns in (with) brimstone. And the rest were slain 21 in (with) the sword of Him who is seated upon the horse, [the sword] which proceeded out of His mouth; and all the birds were filled out of (with) their flesh.

LECTURE XXXIII.

REVELATION XIX. 19.

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army.

THUS even the destruction of Babylon is not the end of all things. There is another power and another struggle behind. The sixth head is not the last: there is a seventh also. The passage now to be examined is the necessary supplement of those which have engaged our attention for the last two Sunday evenings. When we have reached its close, we shall have but one record more, to bring us to the end of the Book, and with it to the end of God's latest revelation to His people.

We had found in earlier chapters, the 14th and the 16th, intimations of the existence and of the fall of some power designated by the name of Babylon. Rev. 14. 8. There followed another angel, saying, Babylon is

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