Guesssen concludes his volume extolling the eschatological wonder of Holy Scripture. He speaks of the Bible as a
“germ of God” that once for the saint once admitted “to the Jerusalem that is from above, under the bright effilgence of the Sun of Righteouness, he will see beaming in those words of wisdom, on their being brought to the light of which the Lamb is the everlasting source, splendors now latent, and still enclosed in their first development.”
And in the splendor of eternal glory the saint,
“will discover agreements, harmonies, and glories, which here below he but dimly saw or waited to see with holy reverence.”
This erudite observation
- Living under the curse of sin obstructs the comprehensive analysis of the nature of the Bible.
- The old nature prejudices the saint against the self-authenticating truth of Scripture’s Divine inspiration and infallibility, a prejudice eradicated when glorified.
- The old nature prejudices the saint to think more highly of his reasoning capacity than he should, also a prejudice eradicated when glorified.
- Every glorified saints attitude toward God’s Word will be to the praise and glory of God in glory.
- It is best to wait “to see with holy reverence” what we don’t understand than to reject the promises of God in His inspired, written Word.
- The eschaton will radically reshape our epistemology. Accept that the infinite in the finite sets the saint on a trajectory of infinite spiritual trajectory of searching out the infinite revelation of God in the finite Divinely inspired written revelation of God’s Word.
Gaussen closes,
“Prepared in God’s eternal counsels before the foundation of the world, and enclosed as germs in the Word of life, they will burst forth under the new heaven, and for the new earth wherein will dwell righteousness. The whole written Word, therefore, is inspired by God.”
“Open thou mine eyes, O Lord, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law!”
Blessings!
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