INTRO: This is our last message under the title of Your First Day In Heaven. Our passage for this series has been Revelation 6:9-11 which says:
9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
We took a detour to explore the tabernacle and to come to some understanding of the history of the white robes of our passage. The NT takes for granted that the reader of the NT is familiar with the OT, which in our day is not the case. When we come to this passage and it speaks of an altar, it expects us to know the biblical teaching regarding the altar. When it speaks of the white robes, it expects that we know the history of the OT.
Our fourth and last point that we are now bringing to a close is what happens after the altar. My proposition to you was that the white robes are given at the laver, not at the altar. So these happen, in my understanding, after the altar. |
