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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. B. - Paradise</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Adullam
Children See Paradise, the Heaven Park</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">You will be interested, as we were, in what our Adullam
children saw in the Paradise, the Eden, in the city beyond the sky.
One of the young men was in Paradise almost as soon as he entered the
heavenly city. There he was met by the two Adullam boys who had died
in Hokow. These boys, taking him through Paradise and the other parts
of the Holy city, soon came to a great, lawnlike, grassy, open plot
surrounded by magnificent trees, golden and sparkling. The whole
scene was so entrancing the young man said to his two glorified
friends, “This is good enough for me. There cannot be anything more
beautiful. I will stay right here.” The boys who had preceded him
to heaven said, “No, do not wait here, for there are much greater
marvels.” Going on a little farther they came to still more
wonderful trees, some of them bearing fruit. The park-like
surrounding and the grassy lawn beneath the trees were enticing
beyond any earthly understanding. The young man said, “I must stay
here, I cannot go on and leave this great beauty. I am so happy.”
“Come on,” said the others, “there are many things in heaven
exceeding this.” “You go,” he replied, “but I shall remain
right here for awhile.” The others left him on the grass under the
trees with the great, open, velvet-like grassy space before him.
Floods of joy and happiness he had never known on earth flooded his
whole bing. He was in the land of joy “Joy unspeakable and full of
glory,” “the land that is fairer than day.”</font></p>
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<font size="3">Frequently an angel came walking by, playing a harp and
singing. The angel smiled, offering him the harp. “I cannot play,”
he said. The angel passed by. Soon other angels came, smiling to him
as they played and sang.</font></p>
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<font size="3">The angels were dressed in seamless garments of white;
their faces were perfect; one was not more beautiful than another.
“When they smiled - Oh, I can't describe that,” the boy said,
“there is no way on earth to describe the angels' smile.”</font></p>
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<font size="3">Similar and surpassing beautiful scenes in Paradise were
seen, repeatedly seen, by a large number of Adullam children. In
Paradise they saw trees bearing the most delicious fruit, and vistas
of most beautiful flowers of every color and hue, sending forth an
aroma of surpassing fragrance. There were birds of glorious plumage
singing their carols of joy and praise. In this park were also
animals of every size and description: large deer, small deer, large
lions, great elephants, lovely rabbits, and all sorts of little
friendly pets such as they had never seen before.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Playing
with the Lion and Other Animals in the Heavenly Paradise Park</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">The children held the little pets in their arms and
passed them from one to another. Or perhaps they found the lion
peacefully lying beneath a tree. It that case they climbed on his
back, ran their fingers through his shaggy mane, brushed his face,
and put their hands in his mouth. If they so desired they curled down
beside him to enjoy together the love of their common Maker. Why not?
Somewhere <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. Their
young ones shall lie down together' (Isaiah 11:6-8).</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">Little children rode the small deer, while older
children rode the larger deer or the friendly elephant. All was
perfect love. All was great harmony. Such shouts of joy! Such happy
childish laughter! Who but our Father in Heaven ever thought of or
planned such a Paradise?</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Easting
and Drinking in the Heaven “Park of Pleasure and Fruits”</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">When hungry, the children ate of the wonderful fruit or
gathered freely the sweet tasting, refreshing manna that was
scattered all about. Were they thirsty? Here and there trickled
little brooks of the stimulating and refreshing water of life. (The
scriptures teach that there will be eating and drinking in the
kingdom of God in the resurrected state, and hence there is such
eating and drinking in heaven as seen in vision by these children.
Jesus said, <span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>“I appoint unto
you a kingdom ... that you may eat and drink at my table in my
kingdom” Luke 22:30. “But I say unto you, I shall not drink
henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it
new with you in my Father's kingdom.” Matthew 26:29. </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">Thus
Jesus said he would drink the fruit of the vine with his disciples in
the resurrected state. Jesus himself ate and drank after he rose from
the dead. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>“Him God
raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest - unto
witnesses that were chosen before of God even to us, who ate and
drank with him after he rose from the dead.” Acts 10:40-41. </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Bible distinctly says there will be eating in this heavenly Paradise
of God, for </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>“He that
has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him
that overcomes, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which
is the Paradise of God.” Revelation 2:7. “To him that overcomes,
to him will I give of the hidden manna.” Revelation 2:17. </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
“tree of life” is a general term that covers a variety of
fruit-bearing trees in unstated number, the fruit having a “life
giving quality” particularly adapted to man in his sinless state.
The “tree of life” is not just a single tree with a single kind
of fruit, for the scripture clearly states that in this “park” in
the New Jerusalem in heaven John was shown </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>“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
</b></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>twelve manner of
fruits.” </b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Revelation
22:1-2.</b></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>Adullam Sees the Bible Saints in Heaven</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">In the open, lawn-like vistas amidst the trees and
flowers and birds of Paradise Adullam saw companies of the redeemed
dancing and playing trumpets with the angels. Sometimes they joined
this happy festival group, in which were small children, larger
children, and adults, but where no one was old. What heavenly scenes!
What heavenly singers! What joy among the angels and the redeemed!
The angels pointed out Abraham, David, Daniel, the prophets, the
saints, and the martyrs of old. They saw Peter, James, Paul, and
others of whom the world was not worthy. Our boy from the poor Miao
tribe saw his aunt and his own little sister who had gone ahead to
the land “over there.” Taking our boys by the hand our little
Chinese Mary, who died in Kotchiu, now joined them in heaven.</font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>One Boy Was Given a Vision of The Death of a
Christian</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">As relatives and friends gathered about the dying one an
angel stood by the bed, awaiting the liberating of the Christian's
soul. When the man was set free from his bodily encumbrance, the
angel took him by the arm and ascended with him into heaven. The
principalities and powers of evil hosts in mid-heaven in their
attempts to hinder the passage of the angel and his charge were
overcome by the angel's faith and praise as the ascent continued
toward the heavenly city.</font></p>
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<font size="3">Having been welcomed at the gate, this new arrival was
received by hosts of angels, singing, dancing, rejoicing, all uniting
in giving him a royal welcome into the eternal city of the redeemed.</font></p>
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<font size="3"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Interesting
insights come from these Visions given to the Adullam family. The
apostle Paul speaks of going to heaven revealed as a city; and to
Paradise - but the connection is not clear. Here these little Chinese
orphan and beggar children see the New Jerusalem as the central part
of the Third Heaven, and that Paradise is a Park like Eden as a part
of that City.</span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Many
people ask me - “Do you think we will see animals and birds in
heaven?” “Intra Muros” - “Within the Walls”, by Rebekah
Springer - assures us that we will; and those of the Adullam Family
of S. W. China who were privileged to visit the New Jerusalem,
certainly enjoyed the presence of animals and birds.</span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">They
also saw the New Jerusalem as 3 cities suspended one above another in
a pyramid style, with the smallest one at the apex, containing the
Throne of God. The City is a cube of 1500 miles, with walls of over
200 feet high for the lower part.</span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
fellowship of angels (with wings) and saints (without wings) is very
practical and real. In “Intra Muros” two questions are answered:
“We will know one another over there; and our two lives are one. We
continue with full knowledge what we start out down here on earth.”</span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">I
find that I am gaining insights I hadn't received in previous
readings of “Visions Beyond the Veil,” as I type it up section by
section and mail out to you. This book is really the Foundation Book
by H.A. Baker of the 20 or so books he wrote. It is his first, and
very soon after its first printing after 1927, over a million copies
went forth.</span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">You
will find that added insights will come to you as you like me look at
this book as it appears in sections. - J.A.W.</span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Here
is a further insight by one who is following along with us: “I have
been a Christian for 50 some years. I have sensed that there is more
to God's creation than what we have experienced here on earth. I was
raised to believe and to be a good steward of the things that God has
given us.</span></span></font></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font size="3"><span style="">Two
years ago I had a stroke with bleeding on the brain. I was in a coma
for several days. While in the coma I was visited by the Lord. I know
many Christians have a hard time with this, but it was real. The Lord
showed me prayers in action on my behalf, and then set me in the
middle of a beautiful grassy meadow. I was standing on a bridge with
Him, and under us ran a small stream with many smooth rocks on the
bottom. All around the meadow were beautiful trees and flowers. In
the distance of the meadow was a table set with all different kinds
of food, and people were sitting around it and enjoying themselves as
they ate and talked.</span></font></span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font size="3"><span style="">The
Lord asked me if I was ready to go with him, or if I wanted to go
back to my husband and family. At the end of the table stood my
husband looking at me. He looked so sad and was crying. I told the
Lord that I didn't think my husband was ready to lose me, nor would
do well without me. He told me to go on back to him; I ran across the
field into my husband's arms and he cradled me there on his arm,
holding my head and brushing the hair out of my eyes. </span></font></span>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font size="3"><span style="">I
remember hearing him tell me that I had had a stroke and had been in
a coma. After a few days of recovery I relayed the experience to him,
and he said that the part about him holding my head and telling about
the stroke actually happened.</span></font></span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font size="3"><span style="">I
remember the beauty of the trees and meadow and flowers. They were
more beautiful than anything I ever remember seeing on earth. What I
really remember are the colors and how different some were to what we
see on earth, and how clear they were. I look forward to seeing them
again when the Lord's time is for me.</span></font></span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font size="3"><span style="">This
experience I have shared with many people, both believers and
non-believers. It has touched the hearts of so many, and it has
encouraged non-believers to seek the Lord.”</span></font></span></p>
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