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"And there came forth a Great Voice from the Nave of the
heaven, from the throne, saying It is done!"
The Nave of the Heaven is "the Bride, the Lamb's Wife".
The Most Holy Community, the One Body, of which the Anointed
Jesus is the Head, in the sense that the Head of Christ is
the Deity". The Nave is the Spirit's Bride purified from
every thing that defiles (ch. 21:9,27). She is represented
inch. 4:4-11, by four-and-twenty elders and four living ones
full of eyes within, before, and behind. These are before
the throne, and round about the throne, occupied by the Lord
Jesus Christ, who is likened to a jasper and a sardine stone.
Hence, what proceeds from the Nave of the Air or Heaven, proceeds
also from the throne established on Mount Zion, "the
place of the Name of Yahweh Tz'vaoth," who reigns there
and in Jerusalem, before his Ancients gloriously (Isa. 18:7;
24:23).
A voice proceeding from this throne in the midst of the Nave
of the Heaven must needs be a great voice. And what voice
can give utterance to a more important announcement than that
all that had been predicted by the prophets is done, is all
fulfilled. It reminds us of the words in Ezek. 39:8, "Behold,
it is come, and IT IS DONE, saith Adonai Yahweh; this is the
Day whereof I have spoken". That is, the day of the outpouring
of the Seventh Vial is "the Great and Terrible Day of
Yahweh". It is the day in which, after the fall of Gog
upon the mountains of Israel, Adonai Yahweh will "send
a fire on Magog, and among them who dwell confidently in the
isles;" and which shall cause them to know that He is
Yahweh. "So," saith he, "willI make my Holy
Name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not
let them pollute my Holy Name any more; and the nations shall
know that I, Yahweh, am the HOLY ONE in Israel".
During "the great and terrible day," the Nave smokes
with indignation against Gog's land, or Magog, and against
Babylon the Great, and other more distant lands. In the Nave
is embodied the glory and power of the Deity; so that His
fiery indignation smokes from the Nave; and while, therefore,
this is in a state of activity while "the day of trouble" continues,
in which "they have no rest day nor night who worship
the Beast and his Image, and whosoever receives the sign of
his name" no one engaged in the work of the Seventh
Vial can rest from his labors; nor can the nations walk in
the light of it (ch. 21:24). The smoke of torment must cease
to ascend before the nations can be blessed in Abraham and
his Seed, the Nave; and go up from year to year to worship
the King, Yahweh Tz'vaoth, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles
at Jerusalem (Zech. 14:17). This is the worship of the Nave-State,
into which "no man can enter till the seven plagues of
the seven angels are fulfilled" -till the Seventh Vial,
therefore, is all poured out; and the wrath of the Deity IS
DONE. But, after "it is done," the Nave-Body will
shine forth as the Sun in the kingdom of the Father, the Alpha
and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; and mankind will
be permitted to enjoy the light of it in peace; and to attain
to a salvation with eternal glory, upon the conditions that
then may be prescribed.
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable,
and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators,
and all liars," who have been brought forth from Death's
charnel house, the grave, and have been driven with shame
and contempt from the Judgment Seat of Christ; together with
all like characters among the living, "shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:" in
other words, shall be subjected to the plague of the Seventh
Vial, which will bring him with torment to a termination of
his existence: "which is the Second Death" (ch.
21:8). Thus, those who have held the truth in unrighteousness,
and so walked after the flesh, "go away into aionian
punishment," in suffering which, they are punished with
the goat-nations that "make war with the Lamb" (ch.
17:14; Matt. 25). They suffer this in the fiery indignation
poured out of the Seventh Vial. They are scrutinized and condemned
under the Sixth Vial, and executed under the Seventh. And
when the tares among the saints are separated, and commanded
to "depart into the aion-fire" - to set out upon
the hard road appointed for them to travel, towards the country
of their penal servitude and death; the saints who are accounted
worthy of the aion, are sentenced to enter into "the
house from heaven" from which they shall 'go Out no more
(ch. 3:12; 21:7). The sentence is executed in a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye, in "the mortal" being "swallowed
up of life;" or what is equivalent, "the life of
Jesus being made manifest in their mortal flesh" (2 Cor.
4:11; 5:4).
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