Page:Darby - Notes on the Book of Revelations, 1839.djvu/172

verse 22, we read, “judgment was given to the saints of the most High,” or of the heavenly places. Here, not only are the thrones set, but he sees people sitting on them: the thrones were filled. This Daniel did not see: it was a period with him: with us it is our glory with Christ. These thrones were set before even the king and his armies came forth, but they formed no part of the actual visible earthly scene; nothing yet of the connection of heaven with the earth; and therefore they are not mentioned. The thrones were set be- fore the judgment of the beast in Daniel, and those who come forth with the Lamb are sitters on the thrones. But, I repeat, though filled, they are not brought into the scene till they form properly part of it. “When the Son of man shall come in His glory … then shall He sit on the throne of His glory.” They do not take this place properly till He takes it openly; the power being given to Him as Son of man, which is connected with earth: and so these thrones. As in Daniel, “the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High,” so this is consequent upon His taking His power and reigning. They reign with Him the thousand years. What follows in the verse is an additional intima-