power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Rev. v. 13. And a voice came out of the throne saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.—The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. xix. 5, 6. PSALM XLVIII. 1, 2. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king. 3. God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. 5. They saw, so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away; fear took hold upon them there, and pain as of a woman in travail. And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Sion. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne. xiv. 1-3. In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. Joel ii. 32. He gathered them (the kings of the earth) together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Rev. xvi. 16. The kings of the earth, and the great men, &c., hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks, and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, &c. vi. 15, 16. Behold, I come as a thief. xvi. 15. The Lamb shall overcome them. xvii. 14. They hasted away, &c. I will drive him into a land barren and desolate. Joel ii. 20. Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against these nations.— 7. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. The merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? Ezek. xxxviii. 13.-The sea and the waves roaring. Luke xxi. 25. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea. Rev. xii. 12. 1, 2. The city of our God::Mount Zion-6. Fear took hold upon them THERE. 8. As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, the city of our God. in And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and he gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God. And the wine-press was trodden without the city. xiv. 19, 20. 8. God will establish it for ever. Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoic ing, and her people a joy. Isa. lxv. 18.-I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. Rev. xxi. 2. 9, 10. We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. According to thy name, O God, so thy praise unto the ends of the earth. I will tread down the people in mine anger-I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us. Isa. lxiii. 6, 7. He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. Isa. xxv. 7. -And a voice came out from the throne, saying, Praise our God all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. xix. 5. 10. Thy right hand is full of righteousness. 11. Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. In righteousness He doth judge and make war. xix. 11. Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, He hath cast out thine enemy, &c. Zeph. iii. 14, 15. PSALM L. 1-6. In the beginning of the fiftieth Psalm it is written— The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God judge himself. 1. The mighty God, the Lord hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 4. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge his people. is Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. Isa. xxxiv. 1. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles. Let the heathen be wakened, &c. Joel iii. 9, 12. And another angel came out from the altar-and cried with a loud cry -gather the clusters of the vine of the earth. Rev. xiv. 18. 2. Out of Zion, the perfection The wine-press was trodden of beauty, God hath shined. 3. It shall be very tempestuous round about him. 3. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: 3. A fire shall devour before him. without the city, and blood came out of the wine-press, even unto the horse bridles. xiv. 20. The Lord my God shall come. Zech. xiv. 5. Every eye shall see him. Rev. i. 7, &c. Another angel-which had power over fire. xiv. 18. His throne the fiery flame, his wheels burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Dan. vii. 9, 10. 3. A fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Ezek. xxxviii. 22. I will utterly consume all from off the land, saith the Lord. I will consume man and beast I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked. Zeph. i. 2, 3. 1. The mighty God, the Lord hath spoken. 4. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth that he may judge his people. Thus saith the Lord God, Art thou he of whom I have spoken of old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days that I would bring thee against them. Ezek. xxxviii. 17. This is the day whereof I have spoken. xxxix. 8. Behold the day of the Lord cometh. I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. Zech. xiv. 1, 2. I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah and upon all the innabitants of Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. Zeph. i. 4, 12. Unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first. Rom. ii. 8, 9. 4. And He shall call to the And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of Christ; for the accuser of our 10. heavens from above. our God, and the power of his brethren is cast down. Rev. xii. 5. Gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. Zech. xiv. 5. These are they which came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Rev. vii. 14; xi. 18; xix. 7, &c. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the one end of heaven to the other. Matt. xxiv. 31. ་ 6. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and for true and righteous are His power, unto the Lord our God: In the Psalms, as in other scriptures, the judgment of God on the nations and the wicked of the earth, the universal establishment of the kingdom of God and of his Christ, and the consequent blessedness and joy, are joined together like cause and effect, in single passages, frequently intermingled with other coincidences also; so as to demonstrate the connection that subsists between them, and the harmony of scripture with scripture in the ever accumulating testimony which, on being compared, they uniformly bear. Judgment and joy, in the very extremity of both, are thus associated, as in the sixth seal, by the greatest of contrasts, between its opening and its close; on the sounding of the seventh trumpet (Rev. xi. 15); and in the 14th and 19th chapters of the Book of Revelation. The seventh or last vial of the wrath of God, from which nothing but judgment is poured forth, is introduced by a corresponding note of anticipated blessedness, in unison with other predictions, even as heard between the summons to gather the kings of the earth to the battle of that great day of God Almighty, and the announcement that the gathering is accomplished.— Behold, I come quickly: Blessed is he that watcheth." So closely united are these things, though apparently at first sight incongruous, that though their relative positions are changed, yet like twin stars, however different their color, they uniformly revolve round each other, and are not separated, though in the prophetic record sometimes the one precedes and sometimes the other. The joy is either expressly declared to be caused by the judgment and its results, or to arise from their anticipation; and the nearer the judgment, the brighter the joy. Other coincidences with the visions before us are also uniformly intermingled. Their poison (of the wicked) is like the poison of a serpent. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. Let them melt away as waters run continually : when He bendeth (his bow to shoot) his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. As a snail melteth, let them pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. lviii. 4, 6-11. God be merciful unto us and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise thee. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for Thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; God, even our own God, shall bless us ; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. Ps. lxvii. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him. The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. Though ye have lien among the pots (yet shall she be as), the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was as snow in Salmon. The hill of God (is as) the hill of Bashan. Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands of angels: the Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the holy place. Our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord (belong) the issues from death. But God shall wound the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring (my people) again from the depths of the sea that thy foot may be dipped in the blood of enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth: O sing praises unto the Lord: to him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens (which were) of old; lo, He doth send out his voice, a mighty voice. Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel: and his strength is in the clouds. O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God. lxviii. 1-4, 11-17, 20-24, 28-35. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, do we give thanks: for that thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. God is the Judge. For in the hand of the Lord is a cup; and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out of the same: but the dregs |