"for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months."
Gentiles do not figure in the everlasting covenant between God and Man. He has called all for His blessings which we can narrowed down as applied to man who is created 'in our image and after our likeness" The latter therefore modifies the man as one who keeps the sayings of 'this book"(Re.22:9). He is man and has a spiritual ancillary which the term angel' denotes.
Two witnesses who preached are laid as witness to Jerusalem for a specific reason. "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."(11:8) City of Jerusalem is interchangeable with Sodom and Egypt or every other city that comes under the judgment of God. in Ze.1:16 we have it. "I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it,... and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem."We have in Re.Ch.21 where a single measurement settles what is holy and what belongs to the Gentiles. The Gentiles are on the down side of the line. It is interchangeable with Sodom, Egypt and Babylon. Of the last we read thus: " Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."(Re.14:8; It is Jerusalem, "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."(17:6).
There is no mention of nations either in the everlasting covenant. Blessedness therefore is covenanted with the man, "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours."(Re.14:12-13). The word as a voice and as a sign.The two witnesses are a sign.
"for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months."
Gentiles do not figure in the everlasting covenant between God and Man. He has called all for His blessings which we can narrowed down as applied to man who is created 'in our image and after our likeness" The latter therefore modifies the man as one who keeps the sayings of 'this book"(Re.22:9). He is man and has a spiritual ancillary which the term angel' denotes.
Two witnesses who preached are laid as witness to Jerusalem for a specific reason. "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."(11:8) City of Jerusalem is interchangeable with Sodom and Egypt or every other city that comes under the judgment of God. in Ze.1:16 we have it. "I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it,... and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem."We have in Re.Ch.21 where a single measurement settles what is holy and what belongs to the Gentiles. The Gentiles are on the down side of the line. It is interchangeable with Sodom, Egypt and Babylon. Of the last we read thus: " Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."(Re.14:8; It is Jerusalem, "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."(17:6).
There is no mention of nations either in the everlasting covenant. Blessedness therefore is covenanted with the man, "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours."(Re.14:12-13). The word as a voice and as a sign.The two witnesses are a sign.
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