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                               THE HOLY CITY                                   Â
by Dr. Wesley Swift---2-25-68 We want to talk to you
about the Holy City, for there is not question of the fact that the Bible talks
about a Holy City. We will turn to the 21st
chapter of Revelation and we read, ‘I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and first earth were passed away and there was no more sea.’  Alright, John saw a new heaven and a new
earth, for the first heaven and first earth were passed away and there was no
more sea? John saw a ‘New’--a Holy
city--a New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven prepared as a bride for her
husband. There is much speculation on
the part of theologians as to their declaration. Many prefer to talk about a new heaven and a new earth. Of course, some of the evangelists and some
of the theologians think that this earth is going to be consumed by fire and
everything burned up. Then after this,
there is going to be a new heaven and a new earth. But the Bible tells us that the earth is to be inhabited forever
and forever. I want you to know that
there is not going to be an extermination of the people of earth or a
destruction of the earth. What does it
mean? Well, actually, the meaning is ‘I
saw a new order in the heavens, and a new order is in the earth, for the first
order has passed away, and there will be no more raging masses of people in
violence symbolized by the raging sea.Â
This is the kind of sea which swallows up Great Babylon, the utter evil
put out by them. When we see a new
heaven and a new earth, this is the upper air and the lower earth. When talking about this, it is referring
again to prophecies of victories. Lucifer was the prince of
the powers of the air. He still is
called ‘prince of powers of the air.’Â
He was also prince of this earth.Â
And it is under his dominion before his rebellion. Therefore, he has been both prince of the
powers of the air and prince of the powers of the earth. When it says a new heaven
and a new earth, it means that the powers of the New Age are going to come in
and totally sweep away the powers of Lucifer and all the hordes of darkness and
the dominions he has had a part of . The earth is also referred
to in the writings of Peter, as he talks about how the elements will dissolve
in fervent heat and this world order will pass away. This isn’t however, talking about the Kingdom of God or areas of
administration over the Kingdom of God, but he saw nuclear war. He saw the destruction of the powers of
darkness. And he saw the new order take
over. But it does not mean that the
earth will be destroyed. Now there is another group
of people--old orthodoxy, and they say, ‘Oh, yes, God is going to come and
snatch up HIS church from the earth.Â
There is going to be a great transition. Then when they are in the sky,
HE is going to totally renovate this earth.Â
There will be a new world order, then they are all coming back to
it. And there will be a new world order
for the old has passed away.’ Now, if that is true, what
happens to all these people who are not Israel, not Christian. Where are they going to go? When you came back, there wouldn’t be any of
them left. The earth would be swept
clean and you would have a new earth.Â
So there wouldn’t be any of them left.Â
But the scripture says, ‘All flesh shall be saved.’ It tells you how, during the millennium
program of the Kingdom of Christ that you are not only are going to scatter the
‘Word’ thru out the ends of the earth, but the nations of heathens who are
pagan are going to know the Truth of God.Â
They are going to know HIS name from one end of the earth to the
other. So this is not a ‘rapture
story.’ Rather, that is a story that is
to be a sweeping victory by the hosts of God.Â
They will be triumphant. Of
course, the ‘Rapture’ story is just a story without any Biblical
background---just one of translation. We do know that Christ is
going to return and we will be battling the hordes of darkness. And we will be glad to see the forces of
Christ come in. And we will be crying
‘LORD JESUS please come.’ I don’t think
you are too far from that now, because the design is to destroy America, to
bring war, to bring in the forces of darkness which is even now upon you. They are planning a Communist strike against
you using the Negroes. But this just
means you will be battling all over the world against (Jewish) World
Communism. But says that there will be
a New Heaven and a New Earth. And I
(John) saw the Holy City, a New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven
prepared as a bride for her husband. Let’s go back to the days
of Abraham, remembering that in the books of Hebrews, that Abraham had a great,
great faith. Abraham was told to go out
to a place where he would receive his inheritance and he didn’t know where he
was going. But by Faith, he sojourned
in a land of promise. But he was in a
strange country. He dwelt in tents, as
did Isaac and Jacob, also heirs of the same promise. And ‘He looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder
and maker is God.’ Now, Abraham was so
pleased with this city, that he would think of the promises that God had
made. God told Abraham that HE would
multiply and increase them, until they would be as the sands of the seashore
and the stars of the heavens. This was
YAHWEH’S promise. HE promised him a
city. This promise because he was the
offspring of God, for only that which is Holy comes out of God. In fact, thru Abraham, comes the history of
the prophets, the great men before him. And he knew that the Israel people, the
Adamic race, had descended out of the MOST HIGH. Now, he also looked
forward to the building of this Holy City which was to be finally built. And you turn over here to the book of
Revelation and John sees this city. It
has been coming down out of heaven from God, right out of the Throne of
God. And it has been emerging right
here on earth. If you go into the book of
Daniel, you see how the Satanic world powers are to be broken and destroyed by
the Kingdom because of their evil and control by Satan’s children who could
mingle with the miry clay and the symbol of Iron. Alright, it says the Kingdom--a stone uncut by human hands was
going to sweep down and destroy this image, and grew into a Holy mountain in
the midst of the earth. This Holy
mountain which strikes the image is a descending Kingdom--a program of God for
the earth. Now, we want to point out
that this Holy City---New Jerusalem, is like that great stone uncut by hands
which proceeds out of the Throne of God.Â
Remember, that the Adamic Race on the face of the earth are HIS
children. HE brought them to earth, has
been bringing them to earth, and into the bodies of the Adamic race. You are the children of God after the
Spirit, from the heavens, and the children of Adam after the flesh. Adam as the son of God, gives you the bodies
God has begotten for HIS race as well as spiritually the Celestial seed which
you possess from the heavens. Therefore, I see a Holy
City coming down out of God. And God
says, ‘Behold, this city is My Bride.’Â
HE prepared this bride in the heavens.Â
God doesn’t marry stones. HE
marries the House of Israel. HE said,
‘I am married unto you, O, Israel.’ HE
talks about Israel as HIS bride. HE
talks about how HE, God, united with HIS people, produces HIS many sons. And so by this cause, you see that the HOLY
City is marked as Israel referred to here in the book of Revelation as the
Bride of God. Therefore, he saw it as a
bride adorned for her husband. I want to point out that
the HOLY CITY is well marked as the great spiritual Household of the MOST HIGH,
descending from heaven to earth.Â
Nothing else came out of the heavens from the THRONE OF GOD, but GOD’S
KINGDOM, the CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM. Now, since the Holy City
is made up of people, then it is not made up of stones and bricks, but of
spiritual stones. Peter said, ‘Ye are
living stones which grow into a Holy Temple unto God, in which HE is the chief
corner stone.’ The symbolic pyramid
emblem in your nation showing that you are the New Order of the Ages,---you build
up a spiritual temple with God as the capstone with the ‘All Seeing Eye’ upon
it seeing every stone fitly framed into its proper place. Therefore, you are the living stones of a
Holy City. Now, I want to bring
something else to your attention. In
the book of Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is talking to the Israelites, the
people who constitute the Church, and he says, ‘Know ye not that ye are the
Temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?’ In ‘I Corinthians’ as the Apostle Paul
starts his teaching concerning the great mysteries concerning HIS Household, he
says, ‘We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the wisdom and mystery of
God ordained before the world--unto your glory.’ Another reason why you
have had the mysteries revealed to you by the spirit, is the above. And then it makes this declaration that you
did not receive the spirit which is of the world, when begotten into this
earth, but you received the spirit of God.Â
And you can know freely the things which are of God. A typical man of the world order cannot
receive the spirit of God.  Has no
capacity to receive the things of God.Â
But you--you can understand, you can receive. Because the Spirit is you is--the ‘spirit’ of God. And your body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Turn again to Corinthians
and Paul tells you not to be unequally yoked with darkness, for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness?Â
What union hath light with the darkness? Again, what concord hath Christ with Belile? What concord hath a believer with an
infidel? What concord hath the believer
with an idol worshiper? What agreement
hath the temple of the Living God with idols? HE hath said, ‘I will dwell in
them, walk in them, and they shall be MY people.’ Now, there are a lot of
people who think that somewhere up in heaven, they are building a great big
city. They think it is going to be 1500
miles or 50 miles square and will be let down on golden chains. I don’t know what the sky hooks are going to
fastened to, but they are going to let it down and set it on the earth. Then suddenly, out of the mysteries of all
times, is going to come this Holy City setting down on the earth. In fact, some people say they know this is
true because Ezekiel measured every inch of it. But---yes, Ezekiel measured a Jerusalem which is going to be
built in the days of the Millennium and thereafter, and it is to be built by
the hand of man. He measured every inch
of it and told what would happen as Christ came, how old Jerusalem would be
destroyed, how the Dead Sea would be lifted up and then a City fifty miles
square would be built there. And there
will be a temple in this city patterned after the other, and celebrations of
Israel’s history will be portrayed there.Â
People will re-learn all about Israel’s history. But this city which Ezekiel described is not
the Holy City, because it is to have a temple in it while the ‘Holy City’ has
no temple. And this city described by
Ezekiel is to be built by man. But that
city in that little land which is too small for Israel of today, is not the
‘Holy City’ of Revelation. No, you can’t lay this
temple of Ezekiel’s down on the ‘Holy City’ and set all these imaginary
patterns of prophecy in the hands of some clergy on this description of the
‘Holy City’ of Revelation. So let’s
turn and see what this city in Revelation is all about. It is talking about a race coming down out
of God, a race---people who are a ‘Holy City’ unto God. Remember that cities are not made out of
stones, they are made out of people.Â
You can have a city in the desert with people, but this is the ‘Holy
Seed’ of the MOST HIGH descending from heaven unto earth. ‘I (John) saw a Holy
City.’ A race coming down thru Adam,
Seth, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob---a Holy City of YAHWEH’S own making. Remember that stone uncut by hands--meaning
not by man but by the MOST HIGH. And
how HE talks about HIS Kingdom?Â
Therefore, a great voice came out of heaven saying, ‘the tabernacle of
God is going to be with men, and HE shall dwell with them and they shall be HIS
people, and HE shall be their God.’ And
we are told that God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, there shall
be no death, neither sorrow nor crying.Â
Neither shall there be anymore shame.Â
All the former things shall have passed and the world order even has
passed away, as the Kingdom of God takes over. Now, John heard the voice
of God saying, ‘It is done. I am Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end.’Â
And I will give unto him that is athirst, the fountain of the Water of
Life freely.’ Then came unto me one of
the angels with the seven vials of the last plagues and said to me ‘come hither
and I will show ye the bride, the Lamb’s wife.’ This again, if the embodiment of God--HIS Household--the wife of
God. Now, of course, we have
the strange philosophy in Christianity that we have ‘three gods.’ And we have to get a bride for each one of
them---a bride for God, the Father, and for Christ, the son. And some think, that a special calling out
of the Church will be the bride of the ‘Holy Spirit.’ But all of this is again a misinterpretation of the Holy
Scripture. For ‘Hear O Israel, YAHWEH
thy God is one LORD.’ Then also, God
said, ‘I am married unto Israel.’ Thus,
Israel is the bride of God. And it says
here, ‘Come hither and I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.’ It is the same people all the time. And the Angel said, ‘come I will show you
this bride, the Lamb’s wife.’ This is
not a pile of rocks a preparation of man’s hand. This Holy City of God is something much more than this. ‘And he carried me away in the spirit to a
great and high mountain.’ This is the
structure of the Kingdom, for this stone uncut by hand grows into the image of
a great and high mountain and it fills the whole earth. Thus, the program of God’s Kingdom is
symbolically measured as a great and high mountain which fills the whole earth,
a nation, an administration. So we see
the declaration as HE shows John this great city, great mountain or administration
which has descended out of the heavens, as the offspring of the MOST HIGH. The Apostle Paul says, ‘His spirit bears
witness without spirit that we are the offspring of God, we are the progeny,
the children of God.’ How many times in
his Epistles does the Apostle Paul bear witness that we are HIS offspring
spiritually begotten in the heavens of God and in the flesh the descendants of
Adam. And John says, he is
carried away and is shown this Holy city---this New Jerusalem of God. It has the Glory of God and her light is
like a stone. This is God who is
speaking here concerning the bride, and HE said her light is most
precious. And as John beholds this,
remember ‘Arise and shine, for the Glory of God has risen upon thee.’ Therefore, this city is one of illumination
and of light and glory. We are told
that it has the Glory of God and the ‘Light.’ Â
Remember when speaking of this that in the book of Isaiah, that God
says, ‘My glory I will not give to another.’Â
Only Israel, MY offspring will receive My Glory, for My Glory I will not
give to another.’ Now, therefore (this holy
city) has a wall wide and high with 12 gates.Â
And above the gates there are 12 angels. And over the gates are written the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. This Holy Jerusalem, this city of Living
stones, the only way you enter in and participate in the administration of the
Kingdom of this New Jerusalem is that you are begotten into it. You come in thru this begatting into one of
the tribes. And everyone of the White
race is from these 12 tribes. These are
the people who will run the administration of this Kingdom of the City of
God. Therefore, there are 12 gates and
on them are the names of these 12 tribes of the children of Israel. Then you are shown the
symbols of the beauty and the majesty of this Holy City. And you are told that the foundation of this
city is symbolized as the riches of God’s great Glory. Then the 12 gates have 12
pearls and even several gates in as tho it was one pearl. The street of the city is pure gold altho as
it were transparent as glass. So God, again, brings out the symbolism and
mysteries of HIS Spirit, and the processes of HIS Spirit as HE has done in the
writings of the Apostle Paul, as well as back in the writings of Enoch, talking
about the symbolism of spiritual purity.Â
These symbols of wealth and magnitude all are embodied in a Living
Household. Now, ‘I say no temple
therein.’ Listen. ‘I saw no temple therein,’--for
YAHWEH-YAHSHUA (God) was the temple in it. But when you go back to
the city which Ezekiel talks about as that built as a great memorial where
people will come and visit---after God has smashed, straightened out Old
Jerusalem and that area, and leveled it out to balance the land, Ezekiel
described so that this great memorial can be built to stand thru out the ages. Â But this city of Revelation, my friends, has
no temple, because the children of the ALMIGHTY GOD are the Temple. And the ALMIGHTY GOD is the Chief
Cornerstone of this Temple. As your
bodies become the Holy Temple, HE abiding in you, is referred to as tabernacling
with you. And it says that God is the
Temple of a great Living society, a great New Order--- ‘Novus Ordo
Seculorum’--made up of a people, not something lowered out of the heavens. But something which came by the process of
birth. Whereas the Holy City is the
result. Therefore it says, ‘I saw no
temple therein.’ Now, the city did not have
a need for a sun, or a moon. For the
glory of God did lighten it. The Lamb,
the embodiment of God did lighten it.Â
But it did not say that the sun and moon would not be there. Just that there was no need of their
light. Instead, it is talking about the
Glory which will rest on the House of Israel.Â
This Glory of God rests on the City known as the Bride of the Living
YAHSHUA. This them is the ‘Holy City,’---the
New Jerusalem which John saw coming down out of heaven. If you want an exact
pattern of this city, you can find anywhere in the United States, that there
could be a city 50 miles wide and long.Â
The scripture has a great way of verifying the prophecies. And you can
also find this land for the Holy City which is so wide, long and high. God has said, ‘I have carved out the rivers,
placed within this land the great majesty of My plantings. I have planted the great Red Woods, the
Olive tree, and the Myrtle Wood tree. I
have spread out on you the marks that you are My Israel.’ I want you to know that it
is only in the Western part of the United States and in Palestine that the
Myrtle Wood tree grows. The great
gargantuan Red Woods like the ancient Cedars of Lebanon, these miracle trees,
grown also along the Western Coast of our nation. HE put here also, the Pine tree, and the Box Tree forever. This is the land which God says, ‘I am
pleased to know, and to call MY land here.Â
I will do well with Israel.’ After all, you can’t take
U.S.A. out of the heart of JerUSAlem and have much left. They may build a city alright, in the heart
of this nation, but remember, it is of this nation which God says, ‘This is My
dwelling place.’ We turn once more to
Revelation and it says, ‘I saw no temple there.’ But there shall never be a period thereafter when this Holy City
shall not reign. This is the city
(people) of the LIVING GOD---a Holy City---A LIVING city not made by hands, but
made up of the Household of the LIVING GOD. All the fantasies which
come out of the interpretation of these places in the scripture, there are
people standing, watching and waiting for something which is not going to
happen. And yet, they are a part of the
great miracle of God that is happening.Â
And they don’t understand that they can thank God for the fact that the
Holy City is a real city. The race which was to
emerge out of his loins, was the thing which Abraham was rejoicing about---the
great masterful structure of society which would some day encompass the
earth. He thanked God for it. And God imputed righteousness to Abraham
because he believed God. So when the Apostle Paul
tells you that you are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit
dwells in you, then when he talks about the Living Stones, he is talking about
the great pyramid temple of the Living God.Â
He is talking about a Living City. There shall be cities
built, monuments built. But they are
not coming down out of heaven on golden chains. But YAHWEH-YAHSHUA will join HIS people for the great and
tremendous victory which HE has declared in HIS Holy Scripture. We look out on you and see
a great growing city, a city of deliverance of the MOST HIGH GOD. And we know that HE shall reign and rule
with you. There are many more passages
of scripture, but as you read, you will note that HE has declared that HIS
Glory shall not depart out of Israel.Â
HE will reside in Israel. HE
will fill the land with HIS Glory. (End of sermon)
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