174 The Revelation of Jesus Christ them will be pressed into service. However, the Son of God will preserve them through those terrible days. Not one hair of their heads will be injured. In the verses before us, we find all marvelously preserved and safe in the millennial reign of our Lord. What a testimony this is to His protecting care! My brother, if the Lord is abJe to preserve this witnessing body during that terrible period, we ought to be perfectly as sured that those who put their trust in Him during this present age are absolutely secure. We are in the Father's hand, and none can pluck us out. (See John 10:27-29 ). It will ever be true, as it is now, that "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38, 39).
"HARPERS HARPING WITH THEIR HARPS" A HEAVENLY SCENE 14:2-5
"And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sung as It were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth" (Rev. 14:2, 3). John sees a great multitude of harpers in heaven, and they sing a song in the gloryland, a song that only the 144,000 can sing. The question arises, who are the harpers? You will note that they are not "the living creatures"; nor are they the "elders"; for these harpers sing their song before the "living creatures" and before the "elders." We saw from chapter four that the twenty-four "elders" represent the Old Testament saints and the church of Jesus Christ. The harpers are a dis tinct body, seemingly a multitude that is in some way con nected with the 144,000 down here upon the earth, for they sing a song that only the 144,000 can understand. This great multitude in heaven is evidently the body of people that will be saved during the tribulation period through the preaching of the 144,000. As a result of their turning to God, they will
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