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The Revelation of Jesus.Christ 185 This great company, pictured as standing on the "sea of glass," is not the church of this age. The song they sing, called "the song of Moses" and "the song of the Lamb," clearly designates them as Israelites. They are the great com pany that will be martyred during the reign of the beast. They sing the "song of Moses" and "of the Lamb" because their note of victory will be similar to the one that Moses and the nation of Israel sounded when God marvelously delivered them from the hosts of Pharaoh. You will remember how Israel gathered on the wilderness side of the Red Sea after the waters had closed in on the oppressors, and how they sang that song of victory and praise to God for their marvelous de liverance in that hour. That song of deliverance is recorded in the .fifteenth chapter of Exodus. In like manner, that same God will put His protecting care about those who will suffer martyrdom during the reign of the beast, and in glory they will sing of the sustaining grace of God that has enabled them to triumph during the earth's darkest period. T~e "song of the Lamb," of course, is the song of redemption. Thus their song is described as the "song of Moses" and "of the Lamb." They are seen standing upon a "sea·of glass mingled with fire." The "sea of glass" was typified by the brazen laver in the court of the tabernacle. It was called the "brazen sea" in connection with the worship in Solomon's temple. It was the place where all defilement was washed from the hands and the feet of the priests as they went in to worship, and as they came out to serve. It is a type of the Word of God, through which the Lord Jesus is now washing His church from daily defilement, contracted during this earthly pilgrimage. Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He might cleanse it through the "washing of water by the word" ( Eph. 5:25,26). The !aver here is solidified into a "sea of glass." This means that, for those here mentioned, the pilgrimage journey is over. Never again will their walk be defiled. But the sea is represented as being in glory, just to remind believers of the marvelous provision God made for them while they were here upon the earth.
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