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
Here then is a mighty Image (as represented on the map of the Heavens,)
stretched across mid heaven, with his gold and silver epaulettes (four
hundred and eighty miles apart) and two burning stars denoting his
Northern and Southern extremities: the golden one on his upraised left
foot, the other of silver on his right knee, answering to the one on his
left shoulder; girded with his brilliant studded belt and flaming sword;
"doubtless, to subserve some important purpose even at the present
moment." Let it be distinctly understood, with what has already been
stated by the Astronomers, that this "constellation is one of the most
brilliant and noted in the Heavens," that its nebula, (according to the
celebrated Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL) far exceeds any other object, and its
magnitude utterly inconceivable, two trillions times larger than the
Sun; while the Sun is allowed to be thirteen hundred thousand times
larger than our globe. That it "never yet has been resolved into stars
by the highest power of the telescope," and there is no evidence of any
change, even if it were discovered to be resolvable, (as is stated by a
writer somewhat acquainted with Lord Rosse's monster telescope.) If so,
it goes to strengthen the argument of its first discoverer, who says
"through which one had a free view into another region which was more
enlightened."
If, then, there is nothing to be seen on Earth or in the Heavens except
what Joshua and David saw, v: 13, 14; 1 Chro. xxi: 15, 16, that looks
like this constellation, would it be thought strange for a Christian to
believe that the Prophet Moses had recorded for our instruction the very
answer to be given, viz. "to keep the way of the tree of life."
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