after He hath killed hath power to cast into hell: yea, I you, Fear Him! (Matt. v. 29, 30.)

say unto

Matt. x. 28. Fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul! but rather fear Him Who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell!

["Hell-fire,"-Gehenna of fire,-Matt. v. 22; to which the highest tribunal of the Jews could consign criminals,-capital punishment,-would suggest, as the meaning of this term, dead bodies corrupting and being consumed in perpetual fires, as in the valley of Hinnom, called also the valley of slaughter (Jer. xix. 6).]

Rev. xx. 14, 15. And Death [abolished by our Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 Tim. i. 10: and the last enemy that shall be destroyed, 1 Cor. xv. 26] and Hell [Grave and the Hades] were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the Second Death.

[Compare the trees and plants which The Heavenly Father hath not planted (Matt. xv. 13), withered in fruit, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots (Jude 12).]

And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.

[The Beast and the False-prophet are distinguished as being cast alive into a Lake of Fire (Rev. xix. 20); the "remnant,"-their armies,—are slain with the Sword proceeding out of the Mouth of Him Who sat upon the horse, the Leader of the armies in heaven,-Prince of The Host of The Lord (Josh. v. 14),—on Whose Head are many Crowns (Rev. xix. 21, 11-16), Are these condemned ones in the Last Judgment also slain (xx. 15), as the corrupt trees bringing forth evil fruit are hewn down and cast into the fire (Matt. vii. 17-19.)]

THE COMPANIONSHIP OF THE FIRSTFRUITS AND THE HARVEST."

Isa. lxv. 16, 17.

He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in The God of Truth; and he who sweareth in the earth shall swear by The God of Truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from Mine eyes. For, behold! I create New Heavens and a New Earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind [upon the heart].

2 Pet. iii. 11.13.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness. Looking for and hasting the Coming of the Day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

Nevertheless we, according to His Promise, look for New Heavens and a New Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Isa. lx, 19, 20.

The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but The Lord shall be unto thee an Everlasting Light, and thy God thy Glory.

Thy Sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy Moon withdraw itself: for The Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

GLORIFIED SAINTS,

John i. 12. As many as received Him, to them gave He power

[the right, or privilege] to become the sons of God, even to them who believe on His Name.

1 John iii. 2, 3. Beloved! now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when He shall Appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is Pure.

2 Pet. iii. 14. Wherefore, beloved! seeing that ye look ["expect with trembling and with joy:" Bengel] for such things, be diligent! that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all, with open [unveiled] face beholding as in a glass [mirror] The Glory of The Lord, are changed into the same Image from glory to glory, as by The Lord The Spirit.

Matt. xiii. 43. Then shall the righteous shine forth as The Sun in The Kingdom of their Father.

1 Pet. i. 3-5; 2 Pet. i. 4. Begotten again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an Inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in the heavens for us who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation ready to be revealed in the last time:-made partakers of The Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world.

Rev. xiv. 1-3. Standing on Mount Zion with The Lamb 144,000, "having His Name and His Father's Name written in their foreheads,"" who were redeemed from the earth."

Rev. vii. 14. And those "who came out of the Great Tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in The Blood of The Lamb."

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Rev. xxii. 3, 4. And His servants shall serve Him and they shall see His Face ["were in the king's presence," 2 Kings xxv. 19: "who saw the king's face, who sat the first in the kingdom," Esther i. 14]; and His Name shall be in their foreheads.

Rev. v. 10. Made unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth [anticipated in their song, by the four living creatures, cherubim,—and the four and twenty elders; and realised at the creation of the New Earth].

THE RESURRECTION-BODY OF FLESH AND BONES, NOT OF BLOOD AND FLESH.

1 Cor. xv. 50. Now this I say, brethren! that blood and flesh cannot inherit The Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

(53. This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.)

John i. 13. Born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Luke xxiv. 39. Behold My hands and My feet! that it is I, Myself: handle Me, and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.

Rev. xxi.; xxii. 1-5. And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed by; and there was no more sea. And I saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem,

["Iεpovσaλnμ: It is not without reason that John always writes in his Gospel 'Ieporóλvua, of the old city; in the Apocalypse always 'Iepovoaλnμ, of the Heavenly City. 'Ispovoaλnu is a Hebrew name, the original and more holy one: 'Iɛpoσóλvμa, afterwards in ordinary use, is a Greek name, and rather used in a political sense. St. Paul observes the same difference when refuting Judaism, Gal. iv. 26 (compare the same Epistle, i. 17, 18; ii. 1); Heb. xii. 22; although at other times he uses them indiscriminately, and says to the Romans and Corinthians for the sake of dignity and to win their favour, 'Iɛpovoaλǹμ :”—Bengel.]

coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband.

[The Marriage of The Lamb with His Church,-Rev. xix. 7-9,—is here publicly proclaimed and exhibited after the Reign of 1,000 years.]

And I heard a great Voice out of heaven saying, "Behold! The Tabernacle of God [2 Cor. v. 1; Eph. ii. 20-22] is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away." And He Who sat upon The Throne

said, "Behold! I make all things new." And He said unto me, "Write! for these words are true and faithful." And He said unto me, “It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The Ending. I will give unto him who is athirst of The Fountain of the Water of Life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the Second Death."

And there came unto me one of the Seven Angels, who had the Seven Vials full of the Seven last Plagues, and talked with me, saying, "Come hither! I will show thee The Bride, The Lamb's Wife." And he carried me away in the spirit to a Great and High Mountain, and showed me that Great City, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having The Glory of God: and her Light like unto A Stone most Precious, even like a jasper Stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are of the Twelve Tribes of the Children of Israel [Matt. xix. 28. Judges sat"in the gate" to give Judgment]: on the East three gates; on the North three gates; on the South three gates; and on the West three gates. And the wall of the City had Twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve Apostles of The Lamb.

And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the City, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the City lieth four-square,

[As did the Holy of Holies, the Inner Sanctuary, Ex. xxvi. 16, 22-25: comparing Ezek. xliii. 15 (margin), 17; Isa. xxix. 1; the Mountain, the City, and the Altar appear to be identical.]

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and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the City with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs [each side of the square 1,500 miles ?]. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

[Such a pyramidal form would be presented by a city built in terraces upon a steep mountain.]