'And the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it,' &c. Rev. xxi, 24–27.
These words seem to declare the full accomplishment of this promise, ['Kings and queens shall be nursing fathers and mothers,'] and of all the Old Testament promises of this kind. For they contain a description of the church in its perfection at the restitution of all things; and a further declaration of the same thing that is declared [Rev. xi, 15,] where it is said, 'The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.' This is a part of the short sum which that context gives of the issue of the voice of the seventh angel, of which voice it was said, [chap. x, 7,] 'In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared unto his servants the prophets.' Now, the voice of the seventh angel issues in the kingdoms of this world now becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, where he is to reign for ever and ever, the coming of God's wrath, the raising of the dead, the rewarding of the prophets, saints, and them that fear the Lord, both small and great, and the destruction of them that destroy the earth.'—Glass.