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The tribulation came on
the
saints once, during the
Middle Ages, and it will come again. The souls that were .slain
were told to "rest yet .for a little sea.son, unti.l tbe'Ir7ellow–
aervants also and the:ir brethren, that should be killed as they
were, should be .fulfilled.
11
These two .martyrdoms are also
mentioned in Revelation
12
1
verses
o-ind 14.
Those who died in the Middle Ages were symbolically
g1.ven white robes to show that they possessed the righteousness
of saints (Rev.
19:8)~
And righteousness is described
in
Psalm
119:172
as keeping the commandments -- the exact thing for which
the Devil persecutes the Church.
But why were the souls seen
in
vision under the altar
in heaven, though
~hey
were actually buried
on
the
earth? This
altar, mentioned also
in
Revelation
8:3,
1s the heavenly co\.Ulter–
part of the altar of
~cenae
which was
~
the holy of holies
(Heb.
9:4).
The
altar o:f incense
was an
·altar :for arayer,
of'
which incense was a symbol. The saints are picture urider the
altar as a snol of the.ir prayers to God, which they offered
when they ye
ived, that He might judge the earth
~
righteous–
ness and avenge them. The entire description :is pictur1.ng the
comi.ng f'inal tribulation.
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