In the system of nature whence the symbol before us is taken, clouds are opaque congeries of aqueous particles, exhaled from the waters of the earth into the air by the electricity of the expanse. This being their nature and origin, they furnish a beautiful and expressive symbol representative of those who are present with the Lord in his apocalypse.
“BEHOLD he is coming with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and whosoever pierced him;
and all the tribes of the earth shall wail before him. Yea, verily; so let it be.” APOC. 1:7.
In these words is an exclamation which is designed to direct the reader’s attention to Jesus and the Saints, as the 6 ^yo^Evor, ho Ercho- menos, the One Yahweh who is coming as the anointed with the Seven Spirits—“Behold, he is coming with the clouds.”
In response to the salutation from the Deity manifested by spirit in Jesus Anointed, John, as the representative of earth’s future kings, ascribes to him as their Prince, “the glory and the supremacy during the Aions of the Aions” In the English version, those words in italics<
The Apocalypse is remarkable for the number seven. The first time it is used in the Bible is in Gen.
Ecclesia, then, is a word compounded of ek, “out of,” and klesis, “a call, or invitation.” Hence an
In the rendering of the original before us 1 have not translated the word ekklesiai, but simply transferred it. It is generally rendered churches; but this word does not express the ideas of ecclesia.
“John to the Seven Ecclesias which are in the Asia: joy to you and peace from the Who is, and Who was, and
In Apoc. 1 : 3, the Spirit pronounces a benediction upon individuals of a certain class in relation to the Apocalypse.
Now, this “Apocalypse of the Sons of the Deity” is represented in the Apocalypse by different remarkable symbols. The first is that described in chap. 1 : 13-16, and styled “Son of Man.” This does not represent an individual man.
However perfect and complete the moral manifestation of the Deity was in Jesus of Nazareth, the divine manifestation was nevertheless imperfect as concerning the substance, or body, of Jesus. This was what we are familiar with as the flesh. It was not angel-flesh, or nature; but that common to the seed of Abraham, styled by Paul sarx hamartias, flesh of sin; “in which,” he says, “dwells no good thing”— Rom.