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
Paul says, "there therefore remaineth a keeping of the Sabbath to the
people of God." Isaiah shows us that in the New Heavens and Earth all
flesh shall keep the "Sabbath." Does any bible reader believe that this
will be on any other day than what God has ordained. Let us look at the
patterns and shadows of the true. Heb. viii: 5; ix. and x: 1. Is not the
true in the eternal state? Think you that God will ever change the true
to answer the pattern of Popery, that has been foremost in desolating
the world? Every candid mind says no! What should we do then? God will
tell us. "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the SEVENTH
IS THE SABBATH of the Lord thy God; (perhaps the minister will tell you
he meant the Jewish Sabbath--don't you believe him nor any one else;
they can't prove it by the Bible) in it thou shalt not do any work;"
"wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." Exod. xx.
Why all this costly array in "building the Tabernacle and afterwards the
Temple?" _Answer_, it was to put the Ark in. 2 Sam. 2-7. Hear David 1
Chron. xvii: 2, 12. What was the Ark? A small chest in which was a
precious relic; the commandments of God; his testimony to man; (see
Exod. xxv: 10, 12) how it is guarded night and day by Cherubims. What
are these commandments to us? They that keep them shall "enter in
through the gates into the city." Rev. xxii: 14. Will you say then that
the fourth commandment is abolished? If so, please cite us to the
chapter and verse. I say it cannot be found within the lids of the
bible. Will you reply by saying that the first day is the Sabbath, or
that it was ever kept by Jesus or his apostles as a day set apart for
religious worship; if so, where is the text? I challenge the world to
produce it! If it cannot be found, why violate still this sacred command
of God and reject all the light that is thrown in your pathway? God will
have some to keep his commandments, if it be but "one of a city and two
of a family." Jer. Some endeavor to clear their conscience by saying
there is no Sabbath to be kept. This, to me, looks like infidelity.
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