CHAPTER
XX,
VERSE
12.
403
necessarily
come
to
an
end,
so
that
the
saints
can
possess
the
kingdom.
We
answer
that
such
objection
arises
from
the
erroneous
view
that
the
devil
and
his
angels
are
to
be
kept
for
pun-
ishment
on
the
earth
instead
of
in
the
enferior
of
1t.
Verse
11.
And
I
saw
a
great
white
throne,
and
him
that
sat
on
it,
from
whose
face
the
earth
and
the
heaven
fled
away;
and
there
was
found
no
place
for
them.
We
are
not
told
where
John
saw
this
great
white
throne,
nor
who
it
was
that
sat
upon
it,
from
whose
face
the
earth
and
the
heaven
fled
away;
we
must
therefore
await
further
revela-
tion
on
those
points.
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We
take
this
passage
to
be
simply
an
intro-
duction
of
some
great
event
about
to
be
deline-
ated,
and
which
will
become
more
intelligible
by
the
exposition
of
the
associated
passages.
Verse
12.
And
I
saw
the
dead,
small
and
great,
stand
before
God;
and
the
books
were
opened:
and
another
book
was
opencd,
which
is
the
book
of
life:
and
the
dead
were
judged
out
of
those
things
which
were
written
in
the
books,
according
to
their
works.
With
this
passage
begins
the
delineation
of
the
event
introduced
in
last
verse,
and
we
readily
perceive
that
the
event
foreshadowed
represents
a
judgment
scene.
We
learn,
also,
that
the
personage
who
occu-
pies
that
throne
is
God,
for
John
says:
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