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Title: Our paradise home; the earth made new and the restoration of all things
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lane, Sands Harvey
Subjects: Heaven
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich., Review and herald publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, whenfearfulness and trembling came upon him, he said, Oh that I hadwings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.Ps. 55: 6. When the Lord gave the children of Israel the land of Canaan,it was only a temporary possession, typical of their final inheritanceof the earth. Through unbelief they lost it. Had they remainedfaithful, as we have before learned, Jerusalem would have stoodforever, and the throne of David would have been provided witha ruler until the Saviour should have come as the seed of David;Christs reign would have been established upon that throne, andIsrael would have been a nation encircling the world. But theylost their opportunity, in departing from God. Thus the restwhich they might have received when Joshua led them into theland of Canaan, they failed to obtain. God does not permit the failure of men to thwart his plan; sohe ordains that the rest for which His people earnestly sigh maybe secured through Christ Jesus. Paul, in writing to the Hebrew6 8i
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The Rest That Remaineth 83 brethren concerning the rest which Israel through transgressionlost, and which may be regained through Christ, says to themas follows: While it is said, To-day if ye will hear His voice,harden not your hearts as in the provocation. For some, whenthey had heard, did provoke; howbeit not all that came out ofEgypt by Moses. But with whom was He grieved forty years?Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in thewilderness? And to whom swear He that they should not enterinto His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see thatthey could not enter in because of unbelief. Heb. 3: 15-19. Paul continues, Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise be-ing left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem tocome short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as wellas unto them ; but the word preached did not profit them, notbeing mixed with faith in them that heard it. Heb. 4: i, 2. AsIsrael failed because of unbelief, the Lord limiteth a ce

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