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The Seven New Things

1. THE NEW HEAVEN.

Rev. 21:1.

"And I saw a NEW HEAVEN."

As the word HEAVEN is here, and in Gen. 1:1, in the singular number, it will clarify matters to limit this creative act to our own planet, rather than the whole of the sidereal heavens, or the starry spaces of the Universe. By a new heaven then we are to understand a new atmosphere for the new earth."

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