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
will be seen any sooner in Ohio, than in New-England or New-York. Again,
we answer to the first and second questions, combined--Rev. iv: 2. Here
is a throne, with one seated upon it. Is there any proof to be found
that this throne was on the Isle of Patmos, Rome, or any other city, or
place in this globe? Will it not be conceded by all Bible students, that
the Lord God Almighty, the Father, is seated upon it? Does not the
Seraphims which are continually crying, Holy, Holy, Holy, in the eighth
verse, say so? Who was found worthy to come and take the book out of the
right hand of him that sat upon this throne? Did he take it out of his
own hand? No, it does not read so. Who, then? John says, it "was the
Lamb." Others said, it "was the Lion of the tribe of Juda." We say, "the
Son of the Father." Here, then, where the door was _opened_ into heaven,
John saw the Father and the Son together, _at one time and in one
place_, transacting business; at the sight of which, ten thousand times
ten thousand, and thousands and thousands of angels cried aloud, "worthy
is the Lamb," &c.; and every creature under heaven acknowledged it!
Verse 11, 13. I am aware that it will be said this is symbolical
language. Allow me to quote an extract from a celebrated writer. "Even
the symbolic parts of a vision have a mixed character. When real
persons, the highest in their kind are mentioned by their proper titles,
there is no room for symbols; the objects represent themselves, God and
Christ and the good angels; Satan and evil spirits, and redeemed saints
on earth or in heaven, are never emblems. Forsake this maxim, and
symbolic prophecy becomes a chaos, in which nothing is fixed, and where
fancy runs riot in its own excesses."
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