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The Revelation of Jesus Christ band or wife, of father or mother? In that day-the day of the translation-you will see again those loved ones who died in the Lord; Then mortality shall put on immortality. and corruption shall put on incorruption. Then "death shall be swallowed up in victory!" While it will be a day of rejoicing for believers, something to which we can look forward with joy, yet we cannot help but feel sad when we realize what it will mean to unbelievers. Homes will be rent in twain. Ungodly husbands will lose godly wives; boys and girls, setting out gaily to school, per haps, in the morning will not return home. But those who are left will not ponder the mysterious disappearance very long. Their minds will quickly revert to everyday affairs, and they will be occupied with the rise to power of a strange and sinister man. That man will appear in Europe after the trans lation of the church. He will talk as no other man has talked; he will present undreamed of solutions for the world's prob lems; he will have the attention of all men centered upon him. That man will be the Antichrist. We shall learn more of him as we enter further into the study of "the things which shall be hereafter." Today, however, we are to continue the study of the heavenly scene, to take place as soon as the church is trans lated. We learned in our previous study that when John was projected, as it were, into the future, he saw in heaven a throne, and God sitting upon that throne. He saw the elders -symbolic of the redeemed church-sitting, "clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold." And out of the throne he saw proceeding "lightnings and thunder ings and voices," because it was a throne of judgment which John saw, judgment soon to be meted out upon a God-defying world. Before the throne the aged apostle beheld "seven lamps of fire burning," a symbol of the Holy Spirit. He saw the four living creatures, representing the attributes of God. And he heard the chorus of worship and praise "to him that sat on the throne." ' THE SEVEN-SEALED BooK-"THE TITLE DEED TO THE EARTH" These things we considered in our last lesson; and chapter
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