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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>(From
“Visions Beyond the Veil” by H.A. Baker)</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Chapter
IV. A. VISIONS OF HEAVEN</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">The Bible tells us the heaven of the redeemed is “the
third heaven.” <b>(“I know a man in Christ ... such a one caught
up even to the third heaven.” 2 Corinthians 12:2. “I go to
prepare a place for you.” John 14:2. “But you are come unto mount
Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ...
and to the spirits of just men made perfect” Hebrews 12:22-23.
“For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city
which is to come.” Hebrews 13:14. “By faith Abraham ... looked
for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is
God.” Hebrews 11:10. “All the saints of old died desiring 'a
better country that is, a heavenly': Wherefore God is not ashamed of
them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.”
Hebrews 11:1</b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>6.)</b></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The future home of
the people of the Lord is a </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>place</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in the third heaven. This </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>place</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is a </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>city</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
The name of this city is “The New Jerusalem.” The New Jerusalem
is not “a figure of speech.” It is not a combination of ideas
skillfully clothed in earthly words of the Lord to give man a false
conception of something it is not. The Bible says this New Jerusalem
is a real city with a real foundation which God himself laid.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">This celestial city
is four square, one thousand five hundred miles on every side,
surrounded by a wall two hundred feet high with foundations of twelve
kinds of precious stones, the most beautiful precious stones known to
man. The wall itself is jasper, which sends forth a brilliant jasper
light. Twelve gates lead into the city, the streets of which are like
burnished gold. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>(</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">“</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>And
he carried me away in the Spirit ... and showed me the holy city
Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God ... her light was like
unto a stone most precious, as it was a jasper stone, clear as
crystal, having a wall great and high; having twelve gates ... and
the wall of the city had twelve foundations ... and the city lies
foursquare, and the length of it is as great as the width: and he
measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs (1,500
miles): the length and the width and the height of it are equal ...
Its wall a hundred and forty-four cubits (216 feet). And the building
of its wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure
glass; the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all
manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the
second sapphire; the third chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the
fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the
eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the
eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst ... The city has no need
of the sun, neither of the moon to shine upon it, for the glory of
God did lighten it.” Revelation 21:10-23.)</b></span></font></p>
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<font size="3">In this city are the homes of the redeemed, the abode of
angels, Paradise, and the throne of God.</font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Why should not the
New Jerusalem be a real city with streets of gold and with jasper
walls and with foundation stones of precious jewels? Did God so
exhaust his material when he made the universe that he had no gold or
jewels left for heaven? If God could make a world, could he not
suspend a city in the sky beyond the stars? Here and there a little
impure gold in a fissure of a distorted rock of this cursed and
perverted earth - or here and there the discovery of a precious jewel
hidden in the debris of earthly ruins - are only lingering reminders
of the reality of which these are merely shadows. The real, the
imperishable are in the city whose builder and maker is God.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">What we see on this
perverted, degenerated earth are only </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>shadows.</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
“The creation fell into subjection to failure and </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>unreality”</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(Romans 8:20). The gold we cherish, the jewels we adore, the cities
and mansions we build are only copies of the real in the city that is
soon coming down.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Adullam children
were caught up in vision to this city of God. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>How</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
they could see the city I do not know. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>How</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Abraham saw it I do not know. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>How
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">Paul could be caught
up to Paradise, either in the body or out of the body, I do not know.
These things are beyond natural order. We need not, at present, know
the </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>How</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
We know the </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Fact</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
John was shown the city. He was told by the Lord to write the things
he had seen and send them to the Churches.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">In the Spirit
Adullam children were caught up to this city time after time, not as
in a dream but as a living reality. Their visits were so real, in
fact, that the children supposed their souls actually left their
bodies to go to heaven and return, or that in some unaccountable way
they had gone to heaven soul and body just as they might in daily
life visit some distant place. Frequently when in Paradise the
children were plucking and partaking of the heavenly fruit they
gathered some extra to tuck in their garments to bring back to earth
for “Muh Si and Si Mu” (Pastor and Mrs. Baker).</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">They knew they were
only on a visit to heaven and soon to return. Upon returning, when
the Spirit lifted from them, finding themselves in our Adullam rooms
they proceeded at once to search in their garments for the delicious
fruit they had brought back to please us. Not finding this fruit in
their garments, a look of great surprise, confusion, and
disappointment came over their faces. They could not, for the time,
believe they had not bodily gone to heaven and come back with the
fruit tucked in their garments.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Walking on the
streets of the New Jerusalem was to them as real as walking on the
streets of a Chinese city. One day, when walking down the street in
bright sunshine, I asked the boys if the visions were as real and as
clear as what we then saw. “Just as real,” they said, “but much
clearer due to the light in heaven and the white garments and the
cleanliness everywhere, all adding to the brightness.”</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">When in the Spirit,
the children were usually lost to their </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>natural</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
surroundings. In many cases, although they supposed they were in
heaven, they talked aloud, describing what they saw, thus carrying on
conversation that we all could hear. Often they acted out before our
eyes what they supposed they were doing in heaven.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Caught
up to the Third Heaven</span></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Adullam children
said they went to the third heaven. As they passed through </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>the
first heaven</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"> they felt
air on their faces. Having passed </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>the
second heaven</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">, they
looked back upon the stars in their wonderful beauty, much as from a
mountain height a person might gaze down upon a beautiful,
light-studded city below. From this starry heaven they passed on into
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>the third heaven</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
until they</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Came
to the Heavenly Jerusalem</span></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">As they approached
this heavenly city they saw its light in the distance. Coming nearer,
they saw the beautiful wall radiating its wonderful jasper light. The
foundations were of indescribable beauty, sparkling with red, yellow,
orange, purple, blue, green, violet, and all the other colors of the
twelve most beautiful jewels.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">This city in the sky
the children saw as three cities in one: one city suspended above
another, the largest city below, and smallest city on top, making a
pyramid. Since this city John saw is surrounded by a wall, and since
the city is one thousand five hundred miles high, Bible students have
supposed the heavenly city is not a cube but a </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>pyramid.</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Our children, however, knew nothing of this, neither had I ever
thought of the New Jerusalem as three cities, one suspended above
another. God who suspends the worlds in space can suspend these
cities in space. The Bible does not tell us the internal order of the
city. (From visions seen by other heavenly visitors it is evident
that there are also arrangements of sevens in the heavenly order.
Apparently there are series of plains as well as series of
arrangements on each plain. No one need suppose that in vision anyone
has seen more than a fraction of heaven. See my book, “The Three
World” for further visions of the New Jerusalem.)</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">One of our small
boys in prophecy when in vision at the feet of the Lord - the Lord
was talking to him. In this prophecy the Lord said that he had made
heaven big enough for everybody, that he had made it in three cities
one above another, and that at present his throne is in the upper
city.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Since time and
distance are nothing in the heavenly realm, there is nothing
impossible in such an arrangement of this city of God. There are
three heavens. There were three stories in the ark, where God
preserved the present creation. God is three in one. Why should not
the city of the Great King be three in one? Why should not the King
reign from the top of the pyramid of all the universe, since “the
stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner,”
the capstone of the pyramid of all creation?</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">By
the Gates into the City</span></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Adullam entered by
its pearly gates into the city of golden streets. Angels in white
guarded the gates and welcomed those entering in. No beggarly
reception this. Here the one-time rejected off-scourings of the earth
were welcomed as kings by these angelic hosts. Had not the Savior
promised the weakest and humblest of his children a kingdom where
they shall reign with the King of Kings for ages and ages?</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Through the gates
into the city! Out of earth into heaven! Out of the mortal into the
immortal! Out of death into life! All the old life behind and below!
All the new life ahead and above! Inside the gates! Angels, angels
everywhere. Angels talking, angels singing, angels rejoicing, angels
playing harps and blowing trumpets, angels dancing and praising the
King. Such a scene no mortal ever saw; such floods of inner joy
flooded the whole being as no one ever knew except when filled with
the Holy Spirit, the eternal life, the heavenly life of God, “the
earnest,” “down payment” of heaven.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The children clapped
their hands in rapture. They shouted for joy. They sometimes rolled
on the floor in unrestrained laughter and jumped and danced in great
delight, while their faces were so transformed by this heavenly joy
that the glory of the celestial city seemed to shine upon us. There
was no sorrow in this city; no mournful, long-faced religion there;
no funeral dirges in the hymns. This was a city of joy, “Joy in the
Holy Spirit,” “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>(“The
kingdom of God is ... peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Romans
14:17.)</b></span></font></p>
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