Now we will proceed with the testimony concerning the opening heavens. John the Baptist bears record, that when he was coming up out of the water from baptising the Saviour, he "saw the heavens OPENED (or cloven or rent) and the spirit like a dove descending upon him, and there came a _voice_ from heaven," &c. Mark i: 10, 11; Luke iii: 20, 22; Matt. iii: 16, 17; John i: 32. Here is the opening heavens, and the voice of God as before. When Jesus was transfigured on the Mount the Disciples saw the cloud and heard the _voice_ of God. When the Savior ascended from Mount Olivet, his disciples saw him: the two shining ones said, "Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up _into heaven_? (it must have been _open_ to their view, or they could not have looked _into_ heaven) this same Jesus which is taken up from you _into heaven_ shall come again in like manner as ye have seen him go _into heaven_." Acts i: 11. Then of course, it will be from the same place. Let us not be deceived about this, he has not come yet. Again, St. Luke says of Stephen, the martyr, (while he was surrounded by a blood-thirsty mob, gnashing on him with their teeth, because of the burning truths which he uttered,) "Being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly _into heaven_, (at a certain point) and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God: and said, _behold, I see the heavens opened_, and the son of man standing on the right hand of God." Was Stephen mistaken? I think not--it was his dying testimony.