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Yet we have glimpses of that land even now; for “God hath revealed
them unto us by His Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 2:10
. Precious to our hearts
are the pictures of that country which the Bible gives.
There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of living
waters. The tree of life yields its fruit every month, and the leaves of
the tree are for the service of the nations.
There are ever-flowing streams, clear as crystal, and beside them
waving trees cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ran-
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somed of the Lord. There the wide-spreading plains swell into hills of
beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits. On those
peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God’s people, so long
pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.
“My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
dwellings, and in quiet resting places.” “Violence shall no more be
heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but
thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.”
Isaiah 32:18
;
60:18
.
“They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: ... mine elect shall long
enjoy the work of their hands.”
Isaiah 65:21, 22
.
There, “the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” “Instead of the
thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up
the myrtle tree.”
Isaiah 35:1
;
55:13
.
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid; ... and a little child shall lead them.” “They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” saith the Lord.
Isaiah
11:6, 9
.
There will be no more tears, no funeral trains, no badges of mourn-
ing. “There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, ... for
the former things are passed away.” “The inhabitant shall not say, I
am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.”
Revelation 21:4
;
Isaiah 33:24
.
There is the New Jerusalem, the capital of the glorified new earth,
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“a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the
hand of thy God.” Her light is “like unto a stone most precious, even
like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.” “The nations of them which are