The Opening Heavens: or a Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles, Concerning the Opening Heavens, Compared With Astronomical Observations, and of the Present and Future Location of the New Jerusalem, the Paradise of GodBates, Joseph
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The Opening Heavens: or a Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles, Concerning the Opening Heavens, Compared With Astronomical Observations, and of the Present and Future Location of the New Jerusalem, the Paradise of God
Bates, Joseph
Bible -- Prophecies; Paradise; Second Advent
One at a certain time said, "Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst
thou find out the Almighty to perfection?" The wise man answers, "No man
can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."
Ecl. iii: 2; Job xi: 7. These texts alone teach us that we yet know but
little of the power and wisdom of the Sovereign of the universe, whose
spirit fills unlimited space; which space is undoubtedly coeval and
coextensive with eternity; studded with millions on millions of worlds,
each moving in its appropriate Sphere, like our own Planet. But a still
greater wonder is the thousands and millions of blazing Comets, even in
the Solar System, (Dick, vol. viii: p. 339,) seemingly sailing with a
roving commission, sweeping their burning trails all over the
perceptible universe of God, each moving in its proper Orbit! some of
them shooting, at times, almost with the velocity of lightning! And yet,
with what precision does the Astronomer calculate their appearing again
after hundreds and thousands of years, without interfering with any of
the celestial scenery. Just turn over to the second page of your Almanac
and learn with what admirable accuracy the Astronomer has calculated,
even to a moment of time, when the moon of yesterday will be passing
under the sun, and cause the darkness to be seen and felt.
Some minds may be troubled about the flaming sword being placed at the
East of the Garden, or that we could see the Eastern side. This will be
better understood by looking at the motion of our Planet. It is said by
Astronomers that this Earth in its annual motion, is booming round the
sun at the rate of nineteen miles per second; at the same time her
diurnal motion from East to West is at the rate of ten miles per minute:
consequently all the objects we see in the heavens, comes from the East,
and among the rest this glorious constellation of _Orion_, all just as
natural as it is for us to see the Sun rise in the East; and in the same
direction the world will soon see what the Second Advent believer has
long and anxiously been waiting for: viz. the "glorious appearing of the
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." Titus ii: 13. Now let us take
another view; not through Lord Rosse's, but God's great Telescope, which
"declares the end from the beginning." Isa. 46: 10.
BIBLE VIEW.
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