And to the saints.—“We hold that it is a most reasonable inference, and one in perfect harmony with all the Lord's Plan, that in the spring of 1878 all the holy Apostles and other ‘overcomers’ of the Gospel Age who slept in Jesus were raised spirit beings, like unto their Lord and Master.”—C. 234.
And them that fear Thy name, small and great.—All other classes of believers, past, present and future.
And shouldest destroy them.—The Papal and Protestant sects.
Which destroy the earth.—Corrupt the earth, Greek.—Rev. 19:2.
11:19. And the Temple of God.—The true Church.—1 Cor. 3:16.
Was opened in heaven ABOVE.—Was revealed as in the ascendency over the nominal ecclesiastical heavens.
And there was seen in His Temple.—Clearly revealed to His Church.
The Ark.—The repository of the sacred and hidden things of Revelation and Ezekiel.
Of [His] THE testament of God.—The Secret—“The Finished Mystery.”—Psa. 25:14; Col. 1:27; Rev. 14:17; 16:1, 17.
And there were lightnings, and voices and thunderings.—See Rev. 8:5.