final judgment.71 Their purity symbolized by the whiteness of their robes is more pronounced than that of normal Christian forgiveness and holiness. The emphatic language of 7:14 indicates this. In the Apocalypse, the mystic union of the believer with Christ usually comes forward when martyrs and confessors are mentioned (cf. 14:13) (Moffatt). A theme of the whole book is the glorification of martyrdom.72 Yet it is not just the martyrs who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb. All Christians