Page 10 - 22 The Glories of the New Jerusalem

THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

and He will dwell with them, and they shall be

His people, and God Himself shall be with

them.” In Christ the God-man, Jehovah

tabernacled. His name was Emmanuel, which

means “God with us.” In the human form,

divinity was veiled by the same cloud which

sin cast over the face of Eden; but in the New

Jerusalem, the people meet God face to face,

with no dividing veil between. From the most

exalted position in the kingdom of God to utter

destruction; this is the story which sin has

written: from death to life immortal; from

degradation to the capital of the universe; this

is the story of redemption.

What wonder that those who have passed

through these experiences sing, “Great and

marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty;