SCRIPTURE
Revelation 7: 9-17
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After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count,
from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before
the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their
hands. 10 They cried out in a loud voice, saying, "Salvation
belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!" 11
And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four
living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped
God, 12 singing, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and
thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever!
Amen." 13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who
are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?" 14 I
said to him, "Sir, you are the one that knows." Then he said to me,
"These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed
their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 For this
reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within
his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. 16
They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor
any scorching heat; 17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will
be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."