Verse 9
"I beheld till the thrones were placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. I beheld at that time because of the great words which the horn spake; I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire. And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time."
This passage is undeniably a prophecy of the eternal judgment. (See extensive comment upon the thoughts here as expanded and developed in Revelation 20.) This is the so-called "Great White Throne Judgment." The Ancient of Days should here be capitalized as it could not possibly refer to anyone else except Almighty God; and the fact that in the New Testament (Revelation 20) it is Christ who sits on this throne, such is a natural result of the early church's acceptance of Our Lord as indeed Deity, to whom the Father has committed the judgment of all men.
It is surprising that the "other beasts" here are represented as being present even until the destruction of the final beast. This is a remarkable consonance with the Apostle John's Apocalypse, in which it appears that "the kings of the earth" (all of them), the Great Harlot (apostate religion), and Satan himself shall all perish simultaneously in the "lake of tire."
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