SEVENFOLD GLORY OF HIS PERSON. 1. HIS HEAD AND HIS HAIR. His Head and Hair were WHITE LIKE WOOL, as WHITE AS SNOW. Here there is a correspondence to the Snow White Wig worn by English judges. This description of Christ reminds us of Daniels vision of the ANCIENT OF DAYS, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the PURE WOOL. Dan. 7:9. Daniel refers three times to the Ancient Of Days. In Chap. 7:13, he distinguishes between the Son of Man and the Ancient of Days, but in verses 9 and 22 he associates the Ancient of Days with a Throne of Judgment, and as God the Father has committed all judgment to the Son (John 5:22), and the Father and the Son are one, the title Ancient Of Days is used interchangeably. And as the title Ancient of Days is applied to the Son of Man (Christ) at the time He assumes the Judgeship (Dan. 7:9-10), which is not until after the Rapture of the Church, we have here additional corroborative proof that Johns Vision belongs to the Day of the Lord. The White Hair of the Son of Man refers to His ANTIQUITY, to His patriarchal dignity, not that His hair was made white by age, for the Eternal never grows old, but it bespeaks wisdom and experience, and the venerableness of His character. 2. HIS EYES. His Eyes were a FLAME OF FIRE. Those eyes that had often been dimmed with human tears, and that wept at the grave of Lazarus, are here pictured as burning with an OMNISCIENT FLAME. How often when on the earth those eyes read the inner-most thoughts of men, and even soldiers quailed before His soul penetrating gaze, so when He sits as the Judge of men all things will be NAKED and OPEN before Him. 3. HIS FEET. His Feet like unto fine BRASS, as if they BURNED IN A FURNACE. In that day those feet that trod the Via Dolorosa of suffering will be like unto INCANDESCENT BRASS, that shall tread and crush Antichrist and Satan when He comes to Tread the WINE-PRESS of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Rev. 19:15. 4. HIS VOICE. His Voice as the SOUND OF MANY WATERS. There is nothing more melodious or musical than the babbling brook, or more p. 12 thunderous than the rush of the cataract over the falls, and there is nothing more fearful to the criminal than the words of the Judge as he passes sentence; but how terrifying will be the sentence when with a strong voice the Son of Man shall say in the Judgment Day, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels. Matt. 25:41. 5. HIS HAND. In His Right Hand SEVEN STARS. We are told in verse 20, that the Seven Stars stand for the ANGELS of the Seven Churches. These Angels are not angelic beings but the Messengers or Ministers of the churches. What a beautiful and solemn lesson is taught here. It is that the ministers of Christ derive their power and office from Him, and that He holds them in His hand. If they are false to Him, no one can deliver them from His power, and if they are true and loyal, no one can touch or molest, or do them harm. 6. HIS MOUTH. Out of His Mouth went a SHARP TWO-EDGED SWORD. While the Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God (Eph. 6:17), and the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any TWO-EDGED SWORD, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow (the body), (Heb. 4:12), that is not the sword meant here. The Sword of the Spirit is the Holy Spirits SWORD, and He alone wields it. The sword meant here is the Sword of the Son of Man (Christ), and it is the SWORD OF JUSTICE, for the Son of Man, out of whose mouth this sword comes, is the White Horse Rider of Rev. 19:11-15, out of whose mouth goeth a SHARP SWORD, that with it He should smite the nations. And that sword, like the Sword of the Spirit will be TWO-EDGED also, for the protection of His people, and the destruction of His enemies. This is still further proof that Johns vision of Christ was as He shall appear in the DAY OF THE LORD. 7. HIS COUNTENANCE. His Countenance was as the SUN SHINETH IN HIS STRENGTH. This recalls to our memory His appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration when His Face did shine AS THE SUN, Matt. 17:2. And we read of the New Jerusalem that the inhabitants thereof have no need of the SUN, for the LAMB is the Light thereof. Rev. 21:23. And when we recall that the Prophet Malachi tells us that when Jesus comes back He will be the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (Malachi 4:2), we see that Johns vision of the Son of Man was as He shall appear at the Second Stage of His Return, the Revelation. Thus we have in Johns Seven-Fold description of the person of the Glorified Son of Man circumstantial or indirect evidence that John saw his vision of the Son of Man, not on a Sabbath Day (or the Lords Day as we now call it), but was projected by the Holy Spirit forward into the Day of the Lord and saw Him as He will appear then as the Judge, and the coming SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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