DESCRIPTION: The spirits of just men made perfect are reckoned as of the same society with the angels, and as dwelling with them in Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem [Hebrews 12:22–23]; which the Apostle elsewhere calls "Jerusalem which is above" [Galatians 4:26], by which he doubtless means, in heaven. Why should not the saints go to be with the angels, when they go from their bodies? Seeing they are of the same family, the angels are their brethren; why should they [be] kept separate from the angels, who are their brethren in the same family? As the angel in the Revelation tells John, he is of his brethren (Revelation 22:9). And if any would understand that not of a proper angel, but the departed soul of one of the saints, then will it make much to our present purpose. If one of them was sent to reveal to John the providences of God relating to the church on earth, then doubtless departed saints are acquainted with them. But that the departed saints do dwell in heaven with the angels, is more evident because we learn by Ephesians 3:15 that the whole family is in heaven and in earth. Departed saints are doubtless of the family; the angels, they also are of the family; saints and angels are all gathered together in one in Christ (Ephesians 1:10; and Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:20). But none can doubt, but that heaven is the dwelling place of the angels. - WJE 18:100
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The Life of David Brainerd
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