Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, said the LORD… The permanence of the Christian Church in the world, if it be a fact, is unlike all facts of history. Everything human decays and passes away. All institutions, forms of government, civilizations, have their day and decline. No one doubts that the old religions of India and its castes are doomed to perish. We cannot, therefore, be assured from history that Christianity may not perish also. Still when you look at its origin, its power of growth, its vitality, when everything around was dead; its changes of form joined to unchangeableness of principle; its power to correct evils within its pale; its predominance among the influences that act on mankind; its universal character, and its consciousness — so to speak — that the world is its own, you cannot feel it to be otherwise than quite probable that it is to be man's guide to the end of time. (T. D. Woolsey.) Parallel Verses KJV: For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. |
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