Jerusalem, New

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This (see Rev. 21) forms the heavenly counterpart of the earthly one, both as a city and a wife. It is, in fact, the aspect of the Bride in relation to the earth, and is not so much the dwelling place of saints as the saints themselves, who are thus beautifully figured as a transparent cube 1,500 miles in length, breadth and height, containing in its center all the glory of God centered in the Lamb, and thus constituting the means of transmitting and diffusing without dimming its lustrous rays throughout the redeemed earth. It appears to occupy a position between heaven and earth, thus showing the saints will be the channels of communication between the two. This city will, as we have seen, be the dwelling place of the Lamb, and hence the center of all government throughout the millennium, Jerusalem itself being the center of purely earthly rule.