All the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat. Joshua 6:5. At the taking of Jericho the mighty General of armies planned the battle in such simplicity that no human
A Better Country
Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Hebrews 11:16. When Lot entered Sodom he fully intended to keep himself
Don’t Forget
Remember Lot’s wife. Luke 17:32. One of the fugitives ventured to cast a look backward to the doomed city, and she became a monument of God’s judgment. If Lot himself had manifested no hesitancy to obey the angels’ warning, but
Confused and Scattered
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Genesis 11:8. The dwellers on the plain of Shinar established their kingdom for self-exaltation, not for the
God Comes Down to See
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis
At Home in the New Jerusalem
Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Isaiah 65:18. There is the New Jerusalem, the metropolis of the glorified new earth, “a crown
Glories of the Eternal World
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11. The glory of the eternal world has been opened before me. I want to