The Book of Revelation: The Song of the Redeemed and of the Angels (3)

Now we can only faintly feel what it means that we are still in the power of sin and death; then we shall clearly understand how deeply we had fallen and from what depth of misery we are saved. Still more. In this present life the saints of God were in tribulation. The enemy, -- Satan, sin, the power of the antichrist, -- left them no rest. Some of this numberless throng have been in the hottest of the battle. They were poor and despised. They were persecuted and subjected to the most awful...