Time to Reward the Prophets.
By John Nevins Andrews
OnE of the most remarkable testimonies on this subject is found in Rev. xi, 18. Under the sounding of the seventh angel, the four and twenty elders fall upon their faces and worship God, saying, "We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." The sounding of the seventh angel is by all expositors of prophecy placed among the closing events of our earth's present history. Several of the things here enumerated sufficiently establish this view, as the judgment of the dead, and the destruction of the wicked; for these things are known to pertain to the final conclusion of the present dispensation. We learn from this scripture, 1. That the time to reward the prophets does not come until the seventh angel has begun to sound. 2. That all the saints of God, both small and great are to receive their reward at the same time that the prophets get theirs. 3. That this act of bestowing reward upon these ancient servants of the Most High is preceded by their being judged. 4. It follows therefore that the prophets did not enter upon their reward at death. Query. How is it that people in these days enter the bliss of Heaven as soon as death passes upon them?