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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
V.A. PARADISE</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Scripture
Teaches the Regeneration of Natural Creation</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">Before telling about the visions of Paradise we wish to
show that such a Paradise as these children saw is in accord with the
Father's plans for his children, as revealed in his written word.
When the Lord created the first perfect man and his perfect bride he
“planted a garden eastward” in Eden, in which he put the man whom
he had formed. <b>“And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, the tree
of life also in the midst of the garden” </b>(Genesis 2:9). Hence,
in the beginning, the Lord planned for man to dwell in the midst of
all the beauties of nature. He was given a home in the garden in the
eastern part of Eden, the wonder “park” that God himself planned
and planted. In that order there was no sin. There was no sickness or
death. There was no thorn or thistle. There was no curse. That was a
different world from this. That world was a heaven on earth with man
enjoying what might have been eternal life, in dominion over a whole
world of trees and flowers “pleasant to the sight,” a whole world
of beauty and glory such as the present earth has never seen. God
planned all these things for man's <b>eternal</b> happiness.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left">
<font size="3">When sin entered, man's enjoyment of this creation
became a <b>limited, temporal</b> enjoyment. The first Creation of
birds, and flowers, and trees, and animals, that were in the first
world and its Eden in an eternal state, fell into a lower order that
is not eternal. “For the creation fell into subjection to failure
and unreality.” Sin lost to man his Eden “park” and his Eden
God.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left">
<font size="3">Restored from sin, man will be restored to his Eden God
and his Eden “park.” But man will be restored to more than the
primal order. He will be born again into the new <b>spiritual</b>
order.</font></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3">The
first order was earthly; the last is <b>spiritual</b> but <b>real</b>.
It is similar to the earthly, even as Christ after his resurrection
was real and similar but still spiritual and different from the
earthly order. He still could eat and drink with his disciples. <b>(“Him
God raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest ...
unto witnesses ... who ate and drank with him after he rose from the
dead.” Acts 10:40-41).</b> He still had flesh and bones that could
be felt <b>(“See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle
me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you behold me
having.” Luke 24:39. “And they gave him a piece of broiled fish.
And he took it and ate before them.” Luke 24:42) </b>and hands that
could serve fish and bread to His hungry disciples <b>(“So when
they got out upon the land they see a fire of coals there, and fish
laid on it, and bread ... Jesus comes and takes the bread, and gives
them, and the fish likewise. This is now the third time that Jesus
was manifested to the disciples, after that he was risen from the
dead.” John 21:9, 31). </b>But in the resurrected order the Lord
was not subject to the limitations of the material world of time, and
space, and physical bounds. Even so the world with its natural order
of animal, bird, and plant creation is to be born again into a
higher, <b>spiritual</b> order similar to the first creation but also
different from it. It will be the <b>real</b> order not again subject
to corruption and unreality (Romans 8:20, Weymouth.} </font>
</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b>All
creation was included in the work of the cross. When Christ died all
creation died. When Christ arose all creation arose. When Christ bore
the crown of thorns he bore all the curse that brought the thorn and
the thistle. He is “The Firstborn of all Creation.”</b></font></p>
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</p>
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<font size="3">The <b>natural</b> creation is to be born again through
the resurrection of Christ. Christ saves more than man. He saves the
whole creation that fell into unreality in the fall of man. For <b>“all
creation</b>, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting
and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God ... There was
always the hope that, <b>at last</b>, the <b>creation itself would
also be set free</b> from the thralldom<b> of decay,</b> so as to
enjoy the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God”
(Romans 8:19-21 Weymouth). <b>If</b><i><b> </b></i><span style="font-style: normal;">this
does not mean that the present natural order of plant, animal, and
all natural life looks forward to being set free in the same
resurrected order and the same liberty the saved are to enjoy in a
new estate, what does it mean? All </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>nature</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
looks forward to the new spiritual regeneration that belongs to the
redeemed, for Christ “brought us forth by the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>first
fruits of His creatures.” James 1:18.</b></span></font></p>
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<br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Christ himself “is
the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation.”
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Colossians 1:15.</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
How is Christ “the first born of all creation” unless it be that
in his resurrection into the new order animal and plant creation will
eventually follow in this order as the full harvest of which Christ
was but the “first fruits”? Even the earth itself is to be
regenerated in the new order, since “according to his promise we
look for new heavens and a </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>new
earth</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">, wherein dwells
righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13). Will not that new earth have trees
and flowers and animals and birds and all the beauties of glorified
nature in a higher incorruptible order that shall abide forever?</span></font></p>
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<br>
</p>
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“<font size="3"><b>The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them”
(Isaiah 11:6).</b></font></p>
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<br>
</p>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">These things are as
certain as the word of God, for “He that sits on the throne said,
Behold I make all things new,” and he said, “write for these
words are faithful and </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>TRUE”
</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">(Revelation 21:5).</span></font></p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;">
<font size="3">John “saw a new heaven and a new earth” and he also
“saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven” to
the New Earth.</font></p>
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<br>
</p>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">As there was an Eden
park of pleasure and fruits on the first earth so, also, in a higher,
regenerated, resurrected order, the New Jerusalem will contain an
Eden park on the New Earth in the new order. This Eden “park” is
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>already</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
in heaven in the New Jerusalem that has not yet descended, but is
soon coming down.</span></font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="center">
<font size="3"><b>Paradise is a “Park” of Plant, Animal, and
Regenerated Nature</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">Perhaps the revelation of such a Paradise in heaven as
Adullam saw will be as new to most of the readers as it was to us.
This is because we are so dull of mind and slow of heart to “believe
all that is written in the Scriptures.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">We
did not teach these children about this Paradise. The children taught
us. Some of the smallest children, who were naturally most ignorant
of these matters, were our best teachers. That they got these things
from the Lord is clearly evident, as you will see by a comparison
with the teaching of the Bible. It teaches there is just such a
Paradise in heaven as these children saw. Paul said he knew a man who
was “caught up even to the third heaven” and that this person
“was caught up into </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Paradise.”
</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">2
Corinthians 12:2, 3. In the messages of Revelation “the Spirit
says to the churches, to him that overcomes, to him will I give to
eat of the tree of life bearing twelve manner of fruits.” </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>(“And
he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding
out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the midst of its street:
and on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life,
bearing twelve manner of fruits.” Revelation 22:1-2.</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">
Hence there is a Paradise in heaven with flowing water and trees of
fruit.</span></span></font></p>
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<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">This
Paradise is a great “park” of surpassing wonder; that is just
what the word “Paradise” means. “Paradise” means “Eden.”
“Eden” means “Paradise.” “Eden” is a “park;”
“Paradise” is therefore a “park.” Peloubet's Bible Dictionary
says of “Paradise,” “This is a word of Persian origin, and is
used in the Septuagint as the translation of 'Eden.' It means </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>an
orchard of pleasure and fruits, a garden, </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">or
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>pleasure ground</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">
something like an English park.” But this “park” in heaven is
only “something like” a park on earth, because it is as much
greater than earthly parks, in extent and beauty, as God's thoughts
are greater than man's thoughts. Man's most beautiful parks, with
their picturesque landscapes, their flowing streams, their crystal
pools, the wooded nooks, the verdant greens, the fragrant, variegated
flowers, the caroling birds, and animal pets, are only imperfect
imitations on the part of man to reproduce the Eden that was “in
the beginning.”</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="left">
<font size="3">If God did not put into the heart of man this love for
nature and this desire for natural parks of pleasure and fruit,
whence came this universal love of nature, that has been in the heart
of man from the days of his earliest history? Is all man's efforts to
preserve a little of the vanishing natural beauties of this cursed
and perishing earth only a vain fancy to be followed for only a few
fleeting years? Is a love for the birds, and animals, and flowers,
and trees, and mountains, and valleys, and lakes, and streams, and
all this handiwork of God just a passing amusement given by the Lord
to cheer us a little on this pilgrim journey? Are not the finest
combinations of all that is beautiful in nature just mere
fore-shadows of the unperverted and unlimited realities in the
Paradise of God in heaven?</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">These
natural beauties are not just scenes passed on a pilgrim journey.
They are guide ways of God, pointing to the Eden of beauty at the end
of the way. Love of nature may become an eternal love, enlarged
beyond all </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>natural
</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">limits
for all who overcome by the blood of the Lamb, who, by faith in him,
enter by the gates into the city with its Paradise of God, the Eden
park in heaven whose beauty sin will never mar.</span></span></font></p>
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</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Following
is a reply from a close relative of H.A. Baker - “I have really
enjoyed and appreciated the way you have been sending out “Visions
Beyond the Veil” chapter by chapter. It has been new and refreshing
to my heart and my mind reading it again in this form, and it brings
a new blessing. God bless you for being the instrument to bring this
blessing to your many readers.”</span></span></span></font></p>
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I felt a clear leading from the Lord to do this. There are twelve
chapters in all, and some of them are sufficiently long that I felt
it best to split them in two. So perhaps 18 portions will complete
this small booklet. Thanks to the numbers of you who have also
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