Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So verse 9, after these things.

For the transition, I look, to behold, a great multitude which no one could number of all

nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb,

clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

So he's got, okay, so now there's all these people, right, from all over, they've all got the white robes.

Remember the white robes from back in the letters to the churches, right?

This is what you get when you overcome. This is what the elders had, right? The elders where

there were some humans up there. This is now all of these folks. And the palm branches are

symbols of victory, right? The one to him who overcomes, right?

That refrain from the letters. And crying out with a loud voice saying, salvation belongs to our

God who sits on the throne and to the lamb. All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures

and fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God saying,

Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might.

Be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

So we had the beginning of the judgment when the sixth seal was open.

Now we press pause, right, time out, right?

The angels hold back, right, sort of the destructive forces,

so that we can, all of the people of god can be sealed

right and now they're all gathered together into that heavenly worship we saw before right

everybody's now brought in all those people who were who are sealed

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