The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy (Volume 19) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1851. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... same tenia, for ever and for ever, by which the continuance of Christ's reign is described under the seventh trumpet and the reign of the saints in the last chapter of the book of Revelation, occurs so often in prophetic descriptions of Messiah's reign, as to show that, in respect to these testimonies, the harmony of prophecy is complete. The new heavens and the new earth of Isaiah identify themselves with the new heavens and the new earth for which, as the apostle testifies, believers in Jesus looked from the first, and have to look for to the last till they come; and with the new heaven and the new earth which John saw, as written, without preaching another Gospel, in the last words of the volume of inspiration."-- Pp. 300--1. And again, -- "The next vision is that of a new heaven and a new earth. From many Scriptures hitherto adduced, as well as in the promise recorded by Isaiah, it may be seen, that the links of the testimony still multiply to the last, and are finally combined, as testifying of the restitution of all things, and thus reaching to the heavens, from whence they all come down into a golden chain, on which the fate of a world already beginning to tremble does hang, till loosened at last and for ever from Satan's bondage and from Satan's kingdom, it shall be fixed again to its Creator's throne; not with a garden of Eden only, but the earth itself a paradise, in which righteousness shall dwell, and men shall be blessed, and saints shall reign, when the Spirit shall be poured upon all flesh, and Christ, the Lord of the dead, be also the Lord of the living."--P. 401. VIII. The New Jerusalem. Dr. K. notices the distinction between the upper and the lower scenes of glory, the earthly and the heavenly, the Jerusalem of Ezekiel, and the Jerusalem of St. ...