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dead. The Lord Jesus shall change our vile body, that it Phil. iii.20. may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. Thy dead Is. xxvi. men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise, and the earth shall cast out the dead. But I would not have Thes. iv.13. you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not pre-1 Cor. xv. vent them which are asleep. Now, if Christ be preached 12. that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. But some man will say, how are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that Lk. xx. 35. world, and the resurrection from the dead, are the children of of God, being the children of the resurrection.

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Job xix. 26.

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(These passages which have now been read, refer to the first resurrection. At the second or last resurrection, "The 1 Thes. iv. Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. The great and dreadful Mal. iv. 5. day of the Lord.")

Mat. xvii.

They shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, Jer. xxx.9. whom I will raise up unto them. And, behold, there ap- Mal. iv. 5. peared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Behold I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. (Notice. The former of the two latter sentences announced the second advent of Moses and Elijah; and the latter sentence foretells and warns us of the third advent of Elijah. Grant, Almighty Father that the world be prepared for his coming! And if he should be on our earth this day, as some think, let the purest among them fear and tremble when he shall give a public manifestation of his divine mission.) In the resurrec- Mat. xxii. tion they neither marry nor are given in marriage. (Whe- 30. ther our Lord spoke here of the first or of the last resurrecappears doubtful.) He is not here, for he is risen, as he 6. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Go, tell my cxxviii. brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see John xi. 25. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he

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John xx.27.

live. And whosoever liveth, and believeth on me, shall never die. Then saith He to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless but believing.

CHAPTER X.

Remarks.

HAVING now finished the readings from Scripture, on the Kingdom of God-The new heavens and the new earth; and the righteousness that is to dwell therein-The second heaven and the third earth-The third heavens-The new Jerusalem-The restoration of Israel—and the first resurrection: we now come to notice a very remarkable and prominent feature of the new or second earth. The readings which refer to that feature, will consist of very brief texts from the prophets and apostles; and those texts, and also the contexts, will be read, if any of the audience shall so require.

It may be reasonably anticipated from the great number of passages that have been already given, that the new or second earth is not to be a new globe. Instead of this, there seems to be abundant evidence that the surface only is to be transformed and made new, by physical and not supernatural means. Very different is to be the second or new heaven and new or third earth which John saw, because in it, there was no more sea. It is worthy of notice, if astronomers are correct in their opinion, that our satelite, the moon, has no sea. This circumstance is merely hinted at as by the bye. There is also another circumstance involved in awful mystery; but which as well as many others may be unveiled to man in the new heavens. We allude to the size of the Holy Rev xxi.16. City. It is to be twelve thousand furlongs square. Now it is believed that there is not on our planet a continent of land of that square dimensions; therefore, that great city must have its site on some larger planet, or in one perhaps that has no sea.

CHAPTER XI.

Of Dominion over the Fish of the Sea.

(FIRST, it will be shown that man is to have dominion over the fish of the sea: and secondly, the arrangements for effecting that dominion.)

Gen. i. 28.

(First.) And God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea. And the fear of you and the «ix. 2. dread of you shall be upon all the fishes of the sea. (Keep

Is. lx. 5.

in mind that fear of man is not dominion of man.) And Num. xi. Moses said shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together 22-23. for them? And the Lord said unto Moses, is the Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. Thou madest him to have p.. viii. 8. dominion over the fish of the sea. Then thou shalt see and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, Ezek. xlvii. which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come shall 9-10. live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. And it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand upon it, from En gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets: their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

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(Secondly, The natural means of effectuating that dominion.) And there shall be upon every high mountain and Is. xxx. 25. upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters. Blessed "xxxii. are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. There the glorious Lord will be “xxxiii. unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall be- "xxxv.6. come a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. Thus sayeth the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, remember ye not the former things, neither consider the

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things of old. Behold I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to Ps. xlvi. 4. my people, my chosen. For 1 will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: even by the "xlix.10 springs of water shall he guide them. There is a river the

Is. xliv. 3.

streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy Ps. lxv. 9. place of the tabernacle of the most High. Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the

ridges thereof abundantly; thou settlest the furrows thereof; thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing Num.xxiv. thereof. He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his Dan. xi. 45. seed shall be in many waters; and he, (Antichrist,) shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glori

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ous holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end and none Job xxviii. shall help him. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; he 10. bindeth the floods from overflowing, and the thing that is "xxviii hid bringeth he forth to light; and he weigheth the waters 25. xxxvii. by measure; and the breadth of the waters is straitened; who hath divided a watercouse for the overflowing of waters; 25. and it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out Zech. xiv. from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea in summer and in winter shall it be. They shall suck of the abundance of the -he leadeth me beside the still waters. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. "xxxiii.7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap; he layeth up the depth in storehouses. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground; and there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation, and sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water springs. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and Jer xxxi. 9. in all the inhabited places of the country. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble. By his knowledge the depths are broken up. Seek him that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: the Lord is his name. It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth: he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of Is. xxvii, 3. the earth: the Lord is his name. I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. The mountains shall bring peace to the

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people. He shall save the children of the needy. I will set Ps. lxxxİx. his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. I25. will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the Lord is upon the waters. The Lord sitteth upon the flood. 10. (In Egypt) they shall turn the rivers far away.

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Is. xix. 6.

And all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a Joel iii. 18. fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall

water the valley of Shittim.

Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; Ezek. xlvii. and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of1. the house eastward: for the fore front of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. 'Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea; (the Dead sea) which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the rivers cometh. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it, from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets: their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed; it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.