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Patriarchs and Prophets
God gave to Abraham a view of this immortal inheritance, and
with this hope he was content. “By faith he sojourned in the Land of
Promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac
and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked
for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”
Hebrews 11:9, 10
.
Of the posterity of Abraham it is written, “These all died in faith,
not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and
were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
Verse 13
. We must dwell
as pilgrims and strangers here if we would gain “a better country, that
is, an heavenly.”
Verse 16
. Those who are children of Abraham will
be seeking the city which he looked for, “whose builder and maker is
God.”
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