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 — John Shaqi
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
But you say, God is a spirit. (There is no doubt but what his spirit
pervades all space, and every thing in it that has life.) But to the
testimony. "Ye have neither heard his voice nor seen his shape." John v:
37. Did Jesus contradict the Patriarchs and Prophets? No, no! He here
told his persecutors what they had not seen nor heard; he did not say he
had no voice or shape. Who did? 1st. Moses. "And I will cover thee with
my _hand_ while I pass by; and I will take away mine _hand_ and thou
shalt see my _back parts_, but my _face_ shall not be seen." Exod.
xxxiii: 22, 23. 2d. The "_eyes_ of the Lord are upon the righteous, and
his _ears_ are open unto their cry. The _face_ of the Lord are against
them that do evil: the Lord _heareth_." Psalms xxxiv: 15, 17. Again, the
"Ancient of days did _sit_, whose _garment_ was white as snow, and the
_hair of his head_ like the pure wool." Does not this prove a shape,
features, and voice, ascribed to God, the same as to man. "And God said
let us make man in our own image, after our likeness; so God created man
in his own image, in the _image of God_ created he him: male and female
created he them." Gen. i: 26, 27. Paul says of Jesus, "Who is the _image
of God_, (this can't be spiritually so) the first born of every
creature; who being in the _form of God_, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God." Eph. ii: 5, 6. Now to the Hebrews--"Hath in these last
days spoken unto us by his son, who being the brightness of his glory,
and the EXPRESS IMAGE of his person." Now turn to the history of Rome
for a moment--read how LENTULUS describes the Savior to the Roman
Senate. Here he describes his stature, countenance, his eyes, beautiful
flowing hair, his wisdom, &c., and finally closes with the following: "A
_man_ for his singular beauty far exceeding all the sons of men." Paul
says, he is the "_express image_" _of God_. (I understand him to say
that he looks just like him.) Oh, says one, this man is a Unitarian! So
then was Paul, or I have not quoted him right.
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