THE reason that God gives for showing this marvelous vision of the millennial temple to Israel is that it might make them ashamed of their iniquities as they measured the pattern and entered by faith, into the blessedness that was in store for them in the latter days, and that they might abhor themselves and realize how many sins and failures had robbed them of blessings in the days that had gone. So as we today contemplate the things which God has prepared for those that love Him, we may bow in contrition before the Lord and be ashamed of the sins that in days gone by hid His face from us and caused us to fail to enter into any true apprehension of our blessed portion in Christ. Our inheritance is reserved in heaven for us. The Father’s house above shall be our eternal home.
“Away with our sorrow and fear!
We soon shall have entered our home,
The heavenly city appear,
The day of our glory have come!
From earth we shall quickly remove.
To dwell in our proper abode,
In mansions of glory above—
The house of our Father and God.
The Christ has our dwelling-place won,
And we in His glory shall be
With Him everlastingly one,
His glory and bliss we shall see.
All tears shall have passed from our eyes.
When Him we behold in the cloud,
And taste the full joy of the skies.
The love of our Father and God!”
—Charles Wesley.