THE SONG FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE

The Song From the Heavens Above   vs. 2-3

 

 

"And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:" "And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."

 

The Voice From the Heavens

• This voice has tremendous range. It is as many waters.
• This voice has thunderous effect. For it is like great thunders.
• This voice finally develops into many voices all acting in unison (cf. RV.).

The Song From the Heavens

• This is a song of rejoicing. "wdhn" means a song of emotion, a gospel song over­flowing with gratitude.
• This is a song of freshness. This is not new in the sense that its content and meaning have just originated. The content and meaning are old. But it is new like the sunshine is new each morning.
• This is sung before a heavenly audience, before the throne in the heavens, before the living creatures, before the elders representing the saved.

The Learners in the Earth vs. 3

"And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."

• The 144,000 did not sing this song, but they could learn it.
• They were the only ones who could learn it.
• The reason was they were redeemed out of the earth. Their experience along qual­ified them to sing the song of the redeemed (Phil. 3:10).

"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;"