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The Story of Redemption
On those peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God’s people,
so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.
The New Jerusalem
There is the New Jerusalem, “having the glory of God,” her
light “like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear
as crystal.”
Revelation 21:11
. Saith the Lord, “I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and joy in My people.”
Isaiah 65:19
. “The tabernacle of
God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be
His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be 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.”
Revelation
21:3, 4
.
In the city of God “there shall be no night.” None will need or
desire repose. There will be no weariness in doing the will of God
and offering praise to His name. We shall ever feel the freshness of
the morning, and shall ever be far from its close. “And they need
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no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them
light.”
Revelation 22:5
. The light of the sun will be superseded by a
radiance which is not painfully dazzling, yet which immeasurably
surpasses the brightness of our noontide. The glory of God and the
Lamb floods the holy city with unfading light. The redeemed walk
in the sunless glory of perpetual day.
“I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are the temple of it.”
Revelation 21:22
. The people of God
are privileged to hold open communion with the Father and the Son.
Now we “see through a glass, darkly.”
1 Corinthians 13:12
. We
behold the image of God reflected, as in a mirror, in the works of
nature and in His dealings with men; but then we shall see Him
face to face, without a dimming veil between. We shall stand in His
presence and gaze upon the glory of His countenance.
There immortal minds will study with never-failing delight the
wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. There
is no cruel, deceiving foe to tempt to forgetfulness of God. Every
faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The acquire-
ment of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies.