After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb [Jesus]. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands. And they were shouting with a great roar, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!” . . . Then [one of the twenty-four elders] said to me, “These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.
