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
As we have before quoted, Moses says that a river went out of Eden to
water the Garden, and became into four heads. Gen. ii: 10, 14. Now let
us turn to Ezekiel's prophecy for a corresponding view, as "in the mouth
of two or three witnesses, shall every word be established." In chapter
43, 1st and 7th verses, he testifies that this accords with the vision
he had by the river Chebar twenty years before, (previously quoted.)
Here he sees the Glory of God on the east side of the _Sanctuary_,
(where Moses said the flaming sword and Cherubims were,) and his "voice
like the noise of many waters saying to him that the house of Israel
shall no more defile God's name." Afterwards, in 47th chapter, 1st and
5th verse: "He brought me again unto the door of the house, and behold
waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward--(observe how particular to mention the "east side")--for the
fore front of the house stood towards the east, and the waters came down
from _under_, from the right side of the house." His guide then measured
the waters one thousand cubits (more than one-fourth of a mile) "the
waters were to the ankles," but when he had measured four thousand
cubits, they had become waters to swim in, that could not be passed
over. In 12th verse he describes the tree of life yielding its monthly
fruit, for meat, and its unfading leaves for medicine. Why all this?
"Because the waters issued out of the Sanctuary." Now read again in Rev.
xxii: 1, 2; does not John tell the same story: the waters issuing from
out the throne, the tree of life, the monthly fruit, the leaves for
healing, the nations. Is not this after the city comes down? In 48th
chapter, 8th verse: "And the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it."
Once more the measuring rod is run over it, showing the four sides just
like the old pattern in the wilderness, and then says the Sanctuary
shall be in the midst thereof. From 30th to 35th verse, he describes the
wall and the gates as John does in Rev. xxi: 13, and closes up his
prophecy in these words, "And the name of the city from that day shall
be, the Lord is there." Now let the old prophet Isaiah testify to what
he saw: "Look upon _Zion_ the _City_ of our solemnities, thine eyes
shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that shall not be
taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither
shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord
will be unto us a place of _broad rivers and streams_, wherein shall go
no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ships pass thereby." xxxiii:
20, 21.
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