The World to Come

After this translation, certain and divine scenes are disclosed to us. The heaven that is set for the execution of judgment on this present evil world, is opened to our sight (Rev. 4). Actions which take their course, while that heaven continues, are presented to us in the progress of the same book. But in turn judgment is all executed, and then succeeds the heavens set for the ministration of government of the "world to come," or the millennial earth. This is apparent in Rev. 20-22.
The world that is to be the scene of righteousness under the heavenly scepter of the glorified Lord and His saints will have its end. The heaven set for the ministration of government will have fulfilled its course, as well as the heaven set for the judgment. Then we get another scene of glory opened to our view. There is the great white throne trying everything. Then the new heaven and the new earth are introduced by the judgment of this great white throne, as the millennial heavens and earth had been introduced by the judgment executed under heaven from the throne of Rev. 4.
Here the series of glories ends. Various scenes and regions have thus unfolded themselves to us in their different characters throughout the New Testament scriptures. We are to glean in that fruitful field, to gather up fragments which lie there, left by the hand of Him who is preparing for the feast-days of eternity.
If we had a heart for the feast itself, we should occupy ourselves more diligently and joyfully in this kind of gleaning that goes before the harvest. But we fail in affection. We are wanting in desire. Present interests divert the heart and do not allow the eye, the thought, and the hope to tarry where notices of coming glories shine! May we apply ourselves now to gleaning, that our appetites may he whetted for the coming feast. Words of Truth