Revelation 7:13 Meaning and Explanation
“And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?”
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What Does Revelation 7:13 Mean?
One of the twenty-four elders turns to John with a question: who are these arrayed in white robes, and from where have they come? It is a teacher's question, asked not for the elder's sake but to draw out and reveal the answer.
The elder lifts John's gaze to the white-robed multitude and prepares to make plain who they are. Sometimes the deepest truths are given not as bare statements but through a question that makes us long to know. The elder's asking sets the stage for one of the most comforting answers in all of Scripture, the unveiling of where the redeemed have come from and at what cost they were made clean.
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What does Revelation 7:13 mean?
One of the elders asks John who the people in white robes are and where they have come from.