“And I heard a voice of harpers harping with their harps; and they sing as it were a New Song in the presence of the throne, and in the presence of the four living ones, and of the elders; and no one was able to leant the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth” — Ver. 2,3.
“And I heard a sound from the heaven as a sound of many waters, and as a sound of loud thunder. ”
“And I looked, and behold, a Lamb stood upon the Mount Zion, and with him 144,000, having the Name of his Father, which had been written upon their foreheads” — Verse 1.
“The most furious and desperate of rebels,” says Gibbon, “are the sectaries of a religion long persecuted, and at length provoked.
The Novatian remnant was numerous in most parts of the Great Roman Eagle until towards the end of the sixth century. After this their name is not found in the history of the times. This arose from the fact of other leaders appearing to direct the witnessing of the woman’s seed against traditions and superstitions more recently introduced by the Catholic Satan.
The song of victory acclaimed by the privileged adherents of the Man-Child of Sin, in which they are made to ascribe their triumph over “the Great Fiery-Red Dragon” of Pagan Rome, not to themselves, but to the self-sacrificing devotion of their brethren, and to the faithfulness of their testimony even unto death; this epinikion, as it is
“And the Serpent cast out of his mouth after the Woman water as a flood, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16. And the earth ran with help for the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the Dragon cast out of his mouth. 17.
“She hath a place which has been prepared of the Deity, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days” — verse 6.
“The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place that had been prepared of the Deity — verse 6: And to the woman were given the two wings of the Great Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place” — verse 14.
“And the Woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place of the Deity, that they may sustain her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days” — Verse 6