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THE NEW SONG

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 2, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 6.

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THE NEW SONG.

BRO. SMITH: We would ask for instruction in regard to your position as set forth in “Thoughts on the Revelation,” upon Rev. xiv, 13. If those who die in this message are raised to form a part of the 144,000; and as they all sing the song which none can learn but the 144,000, and we are told that that is the song of experience learned during the pouring out of the seven last plagues, how can those who “rest from their labors” have this experience, and so join in that song? In behalf of the Bible Class of this place. D. M. Vassar, Mich.
ANSWER. We understand that those who die under the third message come up in time to share with the rest of the 144,000 in their final and glorious deliverance, and this must be that part of their experience which constitutes the chief feature of the song which they sing. Perhaps it would be proper to say that the song had reference wholly to that. They sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. The song of Moses was his song of triumph as he and the armies of Israel stood safely on this side the Red Sea, while the hosts of Pharaoh were swallowed up therein. His deliverance was the burden of that song: “I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” Ex. xv, 1. Those who fall asleep in the third message, go down in full view of the troublous times before them. When they arise, they at once make the experience of the living who have passed through these scenes, their own, just as those who receive the truth under the third message, take the experience of those who had a part in the first and second messages, and enter into the spirit of it, as though it was an experience which they had themselves had. These resurrected ones then hear the everlasting covenant of peace pronounced, share with the 144,000 in their final triumph; and hence join in their song of victory. See Vindication of the Visions, pp. 55, 56.