Volume 5

The rest of this chapter, in view of what has already been written appears so obvious as to require but little additional to be said. The pro­phecy begins with the announcement in the seventh verse of the coming of Christ with clouds. The ecclesia in Sardis was threatened, that if they did not watch, he would come upon them as a thief, and they should not know at what hour he would come.

“And there shall no more be any curse: but the throne of the Deity and of the Lamb shall be in it”.

The conclusion of the whole matter is that there shall be no more any curse upon the earth and upon them who inhabit it. The Eternal

“And the leaves of the Wood were for the healing of the nations”.

“In the midst of the Broadspace of the City, and on each side of the stream was a Wood of Life”.

“And he shewed to me a pure stream of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of the Deity and of the Lamb”.

1. And he showed to me a pure stream of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of the Deity and of the Lamb.
2. In the midst of its broad space, and on each side of the stream, was a wood of life producing twelve fruits, through one month, yielding its separate fruit: and the leaves of the wood were for the healing

“And the Kings of the Earth bring their glory and honor into it”.

“And he that spake with me, had a Golden Reed, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall”.

“And the wall of the city had Twelve Foundations,- and on them the Names of The Twelve Apostles of the Lamb”.

“And the Wall hath Twelve Gates: each one of the gates sever­ally was one pearl”.

As many pearls as Gates — twelve; and at each gate an angel; upon each pearl, a name inscribed of one of the tribes of the Commonwealth of Israel: and three of the twelve gates on each side of the city, situated foursquare.