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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 29, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 22.

1150. A. Rev. 13:17. “What is it to be bought or sold? Who?”

The class referred to are those who will not worship the beast or his image or receive his mark. The buying and selling refer to the common ordinary commercial transactions of life. There will be a boycott declared against those who will not comply with the oppressive anti-Christian laws of the beast power.

1151. D. Rev. 14:20 refers to scenes which will be enacted in the great slaughter of the battle of Armageddon.

1152. Earnest Inquirer. The 144,000 are set forth in Rev. 7:1-8 and 14:1-5. They will be found among the living when Jesus comes, for they are “redeemed,” not from the grave, but “from the earth,” “from among men.” Rev. 14:3, 4. Yes, they will be those who receive the message of Rev. 14:6-12. They reject the name of the beast and his worship, and receive the name and worship of God.