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mystery should be unfolded to them? For when the full time is come, for the animals to deliver up their young, the womb is prepared, and i not so, the seed in the womb is still dead: so God will prepare the body of man to produce living works.

The children of Israel sojourned in the wilderness forty years, and they prepared a tent, thirty cubits in length, and ten in breadth and height: and it was divided into two partitions; the first partition was called the holy place, which was twenty cubits long, and ten wide: here were placed the table of shew-bread, the golden candlestick, and the golden altar of incense. The second partition was called "The Most Holy place," whose length was ten cubits, and breadth ten cubits; wherein, before the building of the temple the ark of the covenant was kept, which was a symbol of God's gracious presence with the Hebrew church.

The Most holy was divided from the Holy Place by a curtain or veil of very rich cloth, which hung upon four pillars of Shittim wood, which were covered with plates of gold; Exodus, 26th chapter.

The tabernacle of God, stood typical of the body of Christ; and the bodies of all those who will be made like him at the first resurrection.`

Paul says, in 2nd Corinthians, 6th chapter, 19th and 20th verses" What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own."

And in Romans, 12th chapter, 1st verse.---“ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God."

The first place in the tabernacle was the resemblance of the ministry, and the lights of the candles; that in process of time, as this figure was

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kept continually as typical, that God would send the seed of the woman, which was Jesus, to perform the ministry of that, of which the tent was a pattern of: and that it should be holy, without blemish; and the fulness of his Spirit should rest upon it, and it should keep all the commandments which were given to man to perform; but there should still be a veil between man and this Spirit, though the Spirit at the river Jordan was seen to descend and abide on this temple, Mark, Ist chapter, 9th and 10th verses.

And the curtain that was between these two places was the blood, which was the life of that temple, though the fulness of the Spirit rested on it.

And while this curtain remained undrawn, 3rd of John, 32nd verse, no man received his testimony; but when they had taken the life of the woman's nature, which was the blood, the curtain then became drawn; and they saw him standing in the second place as an angel,---John, 20th chapter, 17th verse." Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and and your God."

Here he was standing in the second place, in the Spirit, assuming a body, and her eyes were opened, and she supposed him to be the gardener.

And in Luke, 24th chapter, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 30th verses, he still appeared in the second place, and was known by them in breaking of bread; so they saw him without a veil.

And in the 36th verse, he shewed himself in the third place, which is the Most Holy, with the curtain being drawn.

And in the 39th verse.---" Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet, and his side, John 20th chapter, 20th verse.

42 And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and of a honey-comb.

43 And he took it and did eat before them.

44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me.

46 And he said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day."

Here he was in the first place, the just suffering for the unjust, he being holy from eternity, that when the fulness of the times of the Gentiles had come in, which is the third day, or the third generation, that the fulness of the same spirit that rested on the body of Jesus, should return, and rest on those that dwelt in the first place, which is man in the fallen state, of which the works of Jesus were the pattern.

Then the Bridegroom, which has the life of the Bride, should descend and make the life of the blood, flesh; and bring them into the Most Holy place, which is the life of the third heavens, and their mortal bodies should put on immortality, and they being made the Bride, should be as the Bridegroom. John, 3rd chapter, 29th verse." He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroom."*

It is evident from the Scriptures that there is three heavens, 2nd Corinthians, 12th chapter, 2nd verse. The first heaven and the first earth, which is the body of man, being a temple in the image of God, wherein man's delight is fixed; and the blood being the life of it, which is the earth.

* (Meaning) He that hath the life of the Bride is the Bridegroom.

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And God says in Isaiah, 34th chapter, 4th verse. "The heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll," but he says in the 66th chapter, 22nd verse.---"The new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord."

Which Christ shewed after his resurrection, being visible with them on this planet, forty days and eating; that at the fulness of times of the Gentiles, whomsoever believed in him should do the same work, that he would build their temples like unto his temple, which should dwell in the third heavens.

The second heavens is the life or place of the angels; the life of them being lower than God; to minister to man between the first heavens and the third heavens; and they are set to be as ministering spirits from the throne of God.

Though the body of man perish, yet that the souls of those that believe should sleep, and be preserved at the first resurrection, to bring them into the second heavens: for Jesus testifies in John, 14th chapter, 2nd verse.---" In my Father's house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you."

Jude, 6th verse.--"The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation." It was the second heavens from which the rebellious were cast, and permitted to go into the first heavens, to prove the creation, that the works of God might be made manifest.

So that there is the evil power, which is called the devil, to minister to man, to lead him to do evil, and there are the angels which rebelled not, to bring the souls of those who die the death of the righteous, into the second place, where satan has no inheritance; so the Spirit of God has rested in all these places, that is, in the first heavens and

the second heavens, and the third heavens, that God might be glorified.

And God has declared that he will drive him out of the first place, which is the life of flesh and blood, within the third day.

For it is said in 1st Thessalonians, 2nd chapter, 7th verse.---" He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.'

And in Mark, 13th chapter, 20th verse.---“ But for the elects' sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days."

So it is said in Revelation, 12th chapter, 7th and 8th verses." There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon; and the Dragon fought and his angels.

8 And prevailed not: neither was their place found any more in heaven."

Which means the old heaven which is to vanish away as a scroll, the heaven wherein man's delight is fixed; that he will drive him within the third day from those that remain, of which the pruned fig-tree was a figure; spoken of in Luke, 13th chapter, 9th verse, for a thousand years, and he will bind him with those that have died the second death, till the final resurrection.

Which is spoken of in Daniel, 10th chapter, 21st verse.---" But I will shew thee that which is noted in the Scripture of truth; and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince."

And in the 12th chapter, 1st verse." And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great Prince, which standeth for the children of thy people."

Michael, the great Prince, means the life of Israel, which will cause them to overcome the evil power, which will be at the fulness of times, which is spoken of in the same chapter; and by Jesus, in

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