“Count Me the swords that have come.” “Lord, thousands on thousands are ready.” “Lo! these are too many, and with them are some Whose hearts and whose hands are not steady. He whose soul does not burn, Let him take up his tent and return.
“Count Me the swords that remain.” “Lord, hundreds on hundreds are daring.” “These yet are too many for Me to attain To the victory I am preparing. Lead them down to the brink Of the waters of Marah to drink.”
“Lord those who remain are but few, And the hosts of the foe are appalling, And what can a handful such as we do?” “When ye hear from beyond, My Voice calling, Sound the trump! Hold the light! Great Midian will melt in your sight!”
14:1. And I looked, and, [lo, a] BEHOLD THE Lamb.—See Rev. 5:6; 13:8; John 1:29, 36; Acts 8:32; 1 Pet. 1:19.
Stood on the Mount Sion.—The Return of the Lord is here pictured as accomplished the sleeping saints raised, and the full number called. This was all fulfilled in 1878. (Rev. 11:17.) At that time our Lord took unto Himself His great power and began His Reign.
And with Him an hundred forty and four thousand.—See Rev. 7:4.
Having His [Father’s] name AND THE NAME OF HIS FATHER.—How beautiful and how true that we have _both_ the Father and the Son in our minds, while trinitarians must necessarily have more or less, and are proportionately confused.
Written in their foreheads.—Isa. 44:5; Rev. 7:3; Ex. 13:9; 28:26‐38; Deut. 6:8; Z. ’07‐265; Ezek. 9:2‐6.
14:2. And I heard a voice.—The message of Present Truth from the lips of the Lord’s saints on this side of the veil. They are on Mount Zion in the spirit of their minds.
From heaven.—“We are seated with Him in Heavenly places.”—Rev. 13:6.
As the voice of many waters.—A great outpouring of Truth, in many tongues.—Rev. 1:16; 19:6.
And as the voice of [a great] thunder.—Seven thunders, the seven volumes of _Scripture Studies_.—Rev. 8:5; 10:3, 4.
And [I heard] the voice WHICH I HEARD WAS AS THAT of harpers harping with their Harps.—“The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments constitute what the Lord Himself designates ‘the Harp of God.’ (Rev. 15:2.) And the various testimonies of the Law and the Prophets are the several chords of that Harp, which, when tuned by the Holy Spirit dwelling in our hearts, and swept by the fingers of the devoted servants and searchers after Divine Truth, yields the most enchanting strains that ever fell on mortal ears.”—F. 233; Rev. 5:8.