Post by Lee on Jun 8, 2014 4:51:32 GMT
Thus clouds symbolically stand in some connections for the angels who are higher than men, and in others for men raised to angelic nature. For the saints are to be made “equal to the angels”; and the apostles speak of them also under the figure of clouds. Thus Paul speaks to the Thessalonians saying: “We which are alive and remain (unto the coming of the Lord) shall be caught away together with them (the risen dead) in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thess. 4:17). And in Heb. 12 he speaks of the faithful dead as “so great a cloud of witnesses.” In the Revelation (ch. 1:7) John says: “Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.” And in chapter 14 one like the Son of Man is seen sitting on a white cloud, crowned with gold, and armed with a sharp sickle with which he reaps the harvest of the earth in the outpouring of the wrath of God.
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (348–349). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.