with no desolating enquiry of “Where art thou?” God could visit, yea, have His tabernacle among men, now headed up in the blessed second Adam—the risen and glorified man, not in the first fallen one. The millennium, as we have said, is the contrast to Noachic failure, when Satan is cast out of the heavens, and government comes in, righteous and effectual for blessing and peace. To man’s fall, the ruin of the first Adam, is here contrasted the perfect, unfailing, and new and durable blessing of the second—all things made new—no more death—all evil put in the lake of fire. Chap. xix. 9. is the special recorded blessing of the former state—the marriage of the Lamb: xxi. 5, the blessing of this. The condition of the earth during the millennium is more properly the subject of the Old Testament prophets—the restitution of all things spoken of by them. The connection of the heavenly blessings with it, during the millennium, is, however, taken up in what follows, to complete the picture, and give the saints the joy of their own portion in it, which, in its own proper and intrinsic character, moreover, is eternal. This account is from xxi. 9 to xxii. 5, 6.[1] On this I have but few remarks
- ↑ xxi. 8, closes the historical statement: what follows is description, and that of the millennial effect of the city, as well as of the city itself.
