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ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and He that shall
come will come, and will not tarry.” “Israel shall be saved ... with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world
without end.”
Isaiah 65:17
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Hebrews 10:35-37
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Isaiah 45:17
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Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this
faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of
the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that
is for the redeemed. “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming
of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of
the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and
latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of
the Lord draweth nigh.”
James 5:7, 8
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The nations of the saved will know no other law than the law of
heaven. All will be a happy, united family, clothed with the garments
of praise and thanksgiving. Over the scene the morning stars will sing
together, and the sons of God will shout for joy, while God and Christ
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will unite in proclaiming. “There shall be no more sin, neither shall
there be any more death.”
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and
from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before
Me, saith the Lord.” “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall see it together.” “The Lord God will cause righteousness
and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” “In that day shall the
Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto
the residue of His people.”
“The Lord shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places;
and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the
garden of the Lord.” “The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon.” “Thou shalt no more be termed
Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou
shalt be called My Delight, and thy land Beulah.... As the bridegroom
rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.”
Isaiah
66:23
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40:5
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Isaiah 61:11
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28:5
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Isaiah 51:3
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35:2
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Isaiah 62:4, 5
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margin.