Page 20 - 21 The New Jerusalem

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
Jerusalem, the city above, as contrasted with

the earthly Jerusalem in the land of Palestine;

and of this city the Lord calls himself the

“husband.” In addition to this, we have the

positive testimony of the twenty-first chapter

of Revelation to the same facts.

With this view, all is harmony. Christ is called

the Father of his people (Isaiah 9:6); the

Jerusalem above is called our mother, and we

are called the children; and, carrying out the

figure of a marriage, Christ is represented as

the Bridegroom, the city as the bride, and we,

the church, as the guests. There is no

confusion of parties here. But the popular

view, which makes the city the church, and the

church the bride, exhibits the inexcusable

confusion of making the church at the same