fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation." (Gen. xvii. 20.) By referring to Gen. xxv. 12-16, inclusive, we shall find out who these twelve princes are; and we may in some measure trace their descent by comparing these verses with Isaiah xxi. And most certainly God can never lie, neither can he give the supremacy in mount Zion and Jerusalem to Ishmael (i. e. the Mahommedans) and to Isaac, (i. e. the Jews,) at one and the same time. If we refer to Isaiah xxi. 8-17, we shall discover that at the very time when the Lion of the Tribe of Judah is seen by the watchman coming on his way, and the watchman crys, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground;" and the harvest (the "harvest is the end of the world," says Jesus,) is declared "by the threshing of the corn of his floor," then "the burden of Dumah comes," one of the twelve princes of Ishmael; and then the watchman was called to out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, (the morning of the resurrection, and also the night,) Babylon's night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come." "For, thus hath the Lord said unto me: Within a year, according to the year of a hireling, and all

the glory of Kedar shall fail." Such will be the order of the Glory of God revealing himself to our world, as when he appeared to Moses, and proclaimed his divine attributes and perfections to him as "The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth." It was from this Glorious Cloud, or Shechinah-it was from the same heavens opening, that "the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord."

This "temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven," which is soon to be disclosed and manifested to this world, is the substance and prototype itself from whence the example and shadow of the heavenlies were taken; "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building," (Heb. ix. 11); and it is the one that John, the Divine, was authorized to announce to this world; and which will once more proclaim all the divine perfections, "The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty:" it was, I say, the same cloudy pillar, or

Shechinah Glory, that the Lord passed by before him, and from which he proclaimed his divine character, and made known to man his divine and holy attributes; and once more he will disclose his excellent, and exalted, and holy name and power, and the "temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven will be opened;" and there will be seen in this temple "the ark of his testatament and there will be lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." (Rev. xi. 19.)

Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, is represented by almost all the Prophets and Apostles, as coming the second time seated upon a cloud : "I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: and he had in his hand a little book opened: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left on the earth :" thus showing his universal dominion. David says, came down;

"He bowed the heavens also, and and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. Through the brightness before

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him were coals of fire kindled. The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice. And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters." (2 Samuel xxii. 10-17).

John, the Divine, says, after he saw the heavens opened, that out of the throne "proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and voices." (Rev. iv. 5.)

Moses says, "And the sight of the glory of the Lord (the Shechinah) was like a devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel." (Exod. xxiv. 17.)

Isaiah says (xxx. 30): "And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lightning down of his arm, (what a perfect description of the Shechinah Glory!), with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones." Here then is the same thing expressed nearly in the same words by John, "Behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened." "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen

in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and a great hail." Then God will disclose all his divine and excellent attributes to this world as they were set forth in the pattern of the Shechinah Glory, and the ark of the testimony, and temple, exhibited to the children of Israel in the wilderness.

1. The Shechinah Glory.

2. The Cherubims overshadowing the mercy

seat.

3. The Ark of the Testament.

4. The Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony.

5. The outer court of the Temple of the Congregation.

This was shewn to Moses as the pattern-the shadow the example of the heavenly things; but it was only a shadow and pattern, an not the substance, or the heavenly things themselves, and therefore God found fault with them, as Moses testifies, Heb. viii. 7: "For if the first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not