To 13, 21

22

Ap 21, 18

Ap 21, 19

up, the Tribes of the Lord:-Because their Seats have
the testimony of Israel, to sat in judgment, Seats upon
praise the Name of the Lord. the House of David.

8.

-SPLENDOUR AND BEAUTY OF OUR HEAVENLY
COUNTRY.

The gates of Jerusalem twelve pearls, one to each;
shall be built of sapphire and every several gate was
and of emerald, and all the of one several pearl. And
walls thereof round about of the street of the city was
precious stones. All its pure gold, as it were trans-
streets shall be paved with parent glass.

white and clean stones, and They shall bring the glory Ap 21,26
Alleluia shall be sung in its and honour of the nations
streets.

into it.

46

The building of the wall. The Kingdom of Heaven Mt 13, 44 thereof was of jasper-stone; is like unto a treasure. but the city itself pure gold, The Kingdom of Heaven Mt 13,45like to clear glass. is like to a Merchant seeking The foundations of the good pearls,-Who, when he wall of the City were adorned had found one pearl of great with all manner of precious price, went his way and sold stones. all that he had, and bought

Ap 21, 21 The twelve gates are it.

Ps 35, 9

2 C 5, 1

2 C4, 17

18

9.- -MAGNITUDE AND MULTITUDE OF CELESTIAL

GOODS.

They shall be inebriated are seen are temporal; but
with the plenty of Thy House, the things which are not seen
and Thou shalt make them are eternal.

drink of the torrent of Thy My eyes shall see Jerusa- Is 33, 20
Pleasure.
lem, a rich habitation, a

We know if our earthly Tabernacle that cannot be
house of this habitation is removed, neither shall the
dissolved, that we have a nails thereof be taken away
House for ever, neither shall any
not made with hands, eternal of the cords thereof be bro-
in Heaven.

building of God, a

ken.

That which is at present He that spoke with me Ap 21, 15 momentary and light of our had a measure of a reed of tribulation worketh for us gold.

above measure exceedingly He looked for a City that He 11, 10
an eternal weight of glory,-hath foundations, whose
While we look not at the Builder and Maker is God.
things which are seen, but at O how great is the multi- Ps30, 20
the things which are not tude of Thy sweetness, O
seen. For the things which Lord, which Thou hast hid-

P's 17, 21

Mt 5, 19

Mt 5, 12

Ro 2,6

1 C3,8

Jn 14, 2

den for them that fear Thee!

Eye hath not seen, nor ear 1 C2,9

Which Thou hast wrought heard, neither hath it entered
for them that hope in Thee, into the heart of man, what
in the sight of the sons of things God hath prepared
men!
, for them that love Him.

10.

VARIETY OF REWARD FOR VARIETY OF LABOUR.

The Lord will reward me according to my justice, and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands.

He that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Your Reward is very great| in Heaven.

He will render to every man according to his works. Every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

He who soweth sparingly 2C9,6 shall also reap sparingly; and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings. He that is the lesser in the Mt 11, 11 Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

To sit on My right or left Mt 20, 23 Hand is not Mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by My Father.

I will give to them in My Is 56, 5 House, and within My walls, a place, and a name better In My Father's House than sons and daughters: I there are many Mansions. will give them an everlasting which shall never

1 C 15, 41- One is the glory of the name

42

Je 31, 25

JI 3, 18

He 4, 9

sun, another the glory of the perish.
moon, and another the glory No man could say the Ap 14, 3
of the stars. For star Canticle but those hundred
differeth from star in Glory. and forty-four thousand, who
So also is the Resurrection were purchased from the
of the dead.
earth.

11. ENJOYMENT WITHOUT WEARINESS OF

I have inebriated the weary soul, and I have filled every hungry soul.

ETERNAL LIFE.

Glorious things are said
of thee, O City of God.
He hath blessed thy chil-
dren within thee.

Ps 86, 3

Ps 147, 2

He satisfieth thy desire

Ps 102, 5

It shall come to pass in
that day that the mountains
shall drop down sweetness, with good things; thy youth
and the hills shall flow with shall be renewed like the
milk; and water shall flow eagle's.
through all the rivers of
Juda, and a Fountain shall
come forth of the House of
the Lord.

There remaineth therefore a day of Rest for the people of God.

I shall be satisfied when Ps 16, 15 Thy Glory shall appear.

Show us the Father, and Jn 14, 8 it is enough for us.

I saw the Holy City, the Ap 21,2-3 New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God,

12.

Ps 90, 10

Ap 21, 4

Ap 7, 1617

Is 25,7

Is 25,8

Is 35, 10

prepared as a bride adorned!
for her husband.
heard a great Voice from the Every one that hath left Mt 19, 29
Throne, saying: Behold the house, or brethren, or sisters,
Tabernacle of God with men, or father, or mother, or wife,
and He will dwell with them, or children, or lands, for My
And they shall be His people; Name's sake, shall receive an
and God Himself with them hundredfold, and shall pos-
shall be their God.
sess Life Everlasting.

Better is one day in Thy Ps 83, 11
And I Courts above thousands.

-PURITY OF HEAVENLY JOY WITHOUT ADMIXTURE OF

SORROW.

There shall no evil come shall be upon their heads. to thee, nor shall the scourge They shall obtain joy and come near thy Dwelling. gladness, and sorrow

and

God shall wipe away all mourning shall flee away. tears from their eyes; and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, Is 65, 19 death shall be no more, nor and joy in My people, and mourning, nor crying, nor the voice of weeping shall no sorrow shall be any more, for more be heard in her, nor the the former things are passed voice of crying. away.

Iniquity shall no more be Is 60, 18
They shall no more hunger heard in thy Land, wasting
nor thirst, neither shall the nor destruction in thy bor-
sun fall on them, nor any ders, and Salvation shall
heat. For the Lamb, which possess thy walls, and praise
is in the midst of the Throne, thy gates.
shall rule them, and shall Thou shalt no more have Is 60, 19-
lead them to the Fountains the sun for thy light by day,
of the Waters of Life, and neither shall the brightness
God shall wipe away all of the moon enlighten thee;
tears from their eyes.
but the Lord shall be unto

He shall destroy in this thee for an Everlasting Light,
mountain the face of the -And the days of thy
bond with which all people mourning shall be ended.
were tied, and the web that
He began over all nations.

20

Give praise, O Daughter of So 3, 14 Sion: shout, O Israel: be

He shall cast Death down glad and rejoice with all thy headlong for ever; and the heart, O daughter of JerusaLord shall wipe away tears lem.

from every face, and the Winter is now past, the Ca 2, 11 reproach of His people He rain is over and gone, the

shall take away from off the flowers have appeared in our

whole earth; for the Lord Land.

hath spoken it.

I will clothe her Priests Ps 131, 16

The redeemed of the Lord with Salvation, and her shall come into Sion with Saints shall rejoice with expraise, and Everlasting Joyceeding great joy.

Ap 21, 25

Ca 5,1

Is 60, 11

13.-SAFETY WITHOUT ANXIETY.

The gates thereof shall not height, and the breadth
be shut by day; for there thereof are equal.
shall be no night There.

Za 2,5

The City itself was pure Ap 21, 18 I have gathered my myrrh, gold, like to clear glass. with my aromatical spices. I will be to it, saith the Thy Gates shall be open Lord, a Wall of fire round continually they shall not about; and I will be in glory be shut day nor night, that in the midst thereof. the strength of the Gentiles They shall feed and shall S 3, 13 may be brought to thee, and lie down, and there shall be their Kings may be brought. none to make them afraid. He shall dwell on High,| The Lord hath turned the Fortifications of Rocks away thy enemies: the King shall be his Highness; Bread of Israel the Lord is in the is given him, his works are midst of thee, thou shalt fear evil no more. Is 45, 17 Israel is saved in the Lord He has strengthened the Ps 147,2 with an Eternal Salvation: bolts of thy Gates. you shall not be confounded, He hath placed Peace in Ps 147,3 and you shall not be ashamed thy borders. for ever and ever. He that shall overcome I Ap 3, 12

Is 33, 16

12

Ap 21, 16

sure.

Ap 21, 10- He showed me the Holy will make him a pillar in the City Jerusalem;-And it had Temple of My God: and he a wall great and high. shall go out no more: and I The City lieth in a four-will write upon him the square, and the length Name of My God, and the thereof is as great as the Name of the City of My God, breadth and he measured the New Jerusalem which the City with a golden reed cometh down out of Heaven for twelve thousand furlongs, from My God, and My New and the length, and the Name.

He 12, 14

ic 14, 21

Mt 19, 17

Mt 10, 39

1 C 9, 24

14.-SURE WAY OF OBTAINING ETERNAL LIFE.
Follow Peace with all men,
and Holiness, without which
no man shall see God.

Through many tribulations
we must enter into the King-
dom of God.

If thou wilt enter Life, keep the Commandments.

He that shall lose his life for Me shall find it.

So 3, 15

Be you also as living stones 1Pt2,5 built up, a Spiritual House.

Our feet were standing in Ps 121,2-3 thy courts, O Jerusalem:Jerusalem, which is built as a city which is compact together.

Go out quickly into the Lu 14,21 streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the feeble, and the blind, and the lame.

Know you not that they
that run in the race all run
indeed, but one winneth the
Prize? So run that you may City
obtain.

He showed me the Holy Ap 21, 12
Jerusalem. It had
gates, and names

twelve

N

Mt 5, 20

Mt 7,21

Ps 36, 18

Ps 36, 29

Jn 4, 36

W 5, 16

Ap 22, 12

Cl3, 23-24

Ex 33,20

He 4, 3

Jb 14, 1

1 C13,12

written thereon which are but he that doth the Will of
the names of the twelve My Father Who is in Heaven,
tribes of the children of he shall enter into the King-
Israel.
dom of Heaven.

Unless your justice abound If by the Spirit you mor- Ro 8, 13
more than that of the Scribes tify the deeds of the flesh,
and Pharisees, you shall not, you shall live.
enter into the Kingdom of Labour the more, that by 2 Pt 1, 10
Heaven.
good works you may make
Not every one that saith to sure your calling and elec-
Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter tion. For doing these things,
into the Kingdom of Heaven; you shall not sin at any time.

15.--ETERNAL LIFE THE REWARD OF LABOUR, AND
NOT BESTOWED WITHOUT GRACE.

The Lord knoweth the days Knowing that you shall re-
of the undefiled, and their ceive of the Lord the reward
Inheritance shall be for ever. of inheritance. Serve ye the
The just shall inherit the Lord Christ.
Land, and shall dwell therein
for evermore.

To him that thirsteth I Ap 21, 6
will give of the Fountain of
He that reapeth receiveth the Water of Life freely.
wages, and gathereth fruit | I reckon that the sufferings Ro 8, 18
unto Life Everlasting. of this time are not worthy
The just shall live for ever- to be compared with the glory
more, and their reward is to come. that shall be re-
with the Lord, and the care vealed in us.

of them with the Most High.| Come ye, buy wine and
Behold, I come quickly; milk without money and
and My reward is with Me, without any price.

Is 55, 1

to render to every man ac- He that thirsteth, let him Ap 22, 17
cording to his works.
come; and he that will, let
Whatsoever you do, do it him take the Water of Life
from the heart, as to the freely.

Lord, and not to men;-1

16.-ETERNAL LIFE NOT TO BE OBTAINED ON EARTH,

live.

ONLY TO BE WON BY COMBAT.

Man shall not see Me and then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I We who have believed shall shall know, even as I am enter into Rest.

known.

Man born of a woman, While we are in the body 2 C5, 6-3 living for a short time, is we are absent from the Lord. filled with many miseries. -(For we walk by faith, and We see now through a not by sight.)-But we are glass in a dark manner; but confident, and have a good