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The eradication of evil is also expressed in the fact that heaven is a protected place: ‘And nothing unclean shall enter into it, nor anyone devoted to abomination and lies.’” I would add this right at the beginning of the book. “The complete absence of signs pointing to the experience of fallen humanity is depicted by the example of the gates which ‘will never be shut by day, and there will be no night there.” ‘And there will be no night there’ — you understand that regarding ‘there will be no night there,’ it is not in the sense that the sun physically always shines and never sets, but this is all sacred language, meaning there is no darkness. Darkness is, consequently, Baphomet, Mara, and all that is similar. Next: “The second part of the equation consists in the transformation of earthly categories into something ‘new.’ The main example is the new heaven and the new earth, described in the last two chapters of the Bible, as well as the image of the new Jerusalem, in which the earthly reality is implied to be transferred to a higher level of perfection. To prove the superiority of heaven over earth, comparisons are sometimes used. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews states that ‘people of faith strive for the better, that is, the heavenly.’ And Paul affirms that ‘the present temporary sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.’”
Once more, a section: “The reaction of man. Man’s reaction to the new life in heaven is expressed mainly in the feeling of joy and contentment. In the Book of Revelation the joy of the heavenly inhabitants is depicted in scenes of exalted praise, as well as in the image of the white garments of the victors with palm branches in their hands and the guests at the marriage feast. This picture is also reinforced by several parables of Jesus, where life in heaven is compared to being present at a banquet or to entering into the joy of the master. There is also a vivid image in Hebrews 12:22–23, where believers are depicted as having come ‘to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in festal gathering.’” “Images of contentment in Revelation are shown in the examples of the saints, whom the heavenly shepherd leads to the fountains of living water and who have access to the tree of life, which yields its fruit twelve times, giving its fruit each month.” But this is exactly what Big Alexander has been telling me all my life. That everyone drinks from some dirty source, dirty water, unable to quench their thirst, “and you give them water,”
Once more, a section: “The reaction of man. Man’s reaction to the new life in heaven is expressed mainly in the feeling of joy and contentment. In the Book of Revelation the joy of the heavenly inhabitants is depicted in scenes of exalted praise, as well as in the image of the white garments of the victors with palm branches in their hands and the guests at the marriage feast. This picture is also reinforced by several parables of Jesus, where life in heaven is compared to being present at a banquet or to entering into the joy of the master. There is also a vivid image in Hebrews 12:22–23, where believers are depicted as having come ‘to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in festal gathering.’” “Images of contentment in Revelation are shown in the examples of the saints, whom the heavenly shepherd leads to the fountains of living water and who have access to the tree of life, which yields its fruit twelve times, giving its fruit each month.” But this is exactly what Big Alexander has been telling me all my life. That everyone drinks from some dirty source, dirty water, unable to quench their thirst, “and you give them water,”