Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-27
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
For October 80.
BY DR.. MARION NH. HULL

manifest. He is in all OF the heav.
ems; so near that we can live and
move and have our being in Him
(Acts IL and yet in the heaven
OF heavens. Solomon was right when
he said the heaven of the heavens
can not contain Him. yet he was
by Gods grace about to build Him
an house where He might be man
ifest q Chron 2:6). Jesus taught
His disciples in the model prayer
to pray, Our Father who are in
the heavens" duke 11:2). But God
rs most manifest In the third heav-
en-. There He has established His
throne, Heb. SD and Psa. 3:19).
Christ, the glorified Lord Jesus,
In His glorified human body, is
there (Acts Ill and 1855, $50.
Jesus" was the name universally
given to the son of God in refer
ence to His human nature; and it
was Jesus" and "The Son of
Man" that Stephen saw.
our loved ones are there who now
sleep in Jesus. Paul had a great
desire to depart and be with Christ
tPhil. 1929, and we know that when
He comes again He will bring them
with Him Il Thess. 4:13-10. And
this includes an innumerable com
pany of little children, who have
been taken home Matt. 1910. And
all the spirits of the saints of old
are with Him, for when He ascend
ed, He led a multitude of captives
out of captivity Eph. 1910. Oh!
it's a great place and great COM
pany who are around the throne of
God In heaven.
Where Is Heaven:
1t is everywhere spoken of as I'D.
Jesus looked up" to heaven when
He prayed luke 14:19). Jacob pro-
nounced the BLESSINGS of heaven
above" on Joseph Gen. 1925. The
Psalmist sang. eff I Ascend Up Into
Heaven" Psa. 1898. Solomon asked,
Who hath assembled up to heaven?"
prov. 30:Q. God, on the day of the
Pentecost, descended from heaven
and prior to that had descended
from heaven like a dove and had
rested on Jesus Ono. 1922 and the
city, the New Jerusalem, is yet to
come down from God out of heaven
(Rev. 211 ,2,1W. Scores of other pas
! sages might be cited, but everyone
would speak of heaven as up.
However, that is very indefinite.
up" in China would mean Just the
opposite of up" in America. Have
we nothing more definite? Well.
there are two passages in the
Psalms that are most suggestive. In
Psalm 5O:4, God calls from above
that He may judge His people. In
Psalm 1876, 7, speaking of Gods
judging, we read, Promotion com.
eth neither from the east, nor from
the west, nor from the south. But
God is the judge. He putteth down
one and setteth up another" There
is only one other direction to which
we can turn, and that is north. The
North Star is the pole star in every
latitude and longitude. That is "up,'
no matter where you are, and every
true magnetic needle points right
there. Is that not significant?
Furthermore, the whole solar uni
verse is travelling toward the north
star at the almost unimaginable rate
OF IL miles d second, or a million
miles day! But far more signifi-
cant is this: Photographs taken of
the heavens show them dotted SO
thickly with stars that they look
like sand on sandpaper-but Just at
the north star there is a rift, an
empty space where there are no
stars whatever! Can this be the
place where the heavens were
parted to receive Christ as He re-
turned? Will this be the portal
through which He will pass when
He comes again to receive us unto
Himself?