The Everlasting Covenant

The Seen and The Unseen

By the things that are seen, God teaches us the reality of the things that are unseen. The things which mortal eyes cannot see are infinitely more real and lasting than those that our eyes behold. “For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” ² EVCO 271.2

There are rays of light that are absolutely invisible, yet which are more powerful than those of which our eyes take account. The invisible vapour, continually ascending from the earth, is as real as is the rain, in which form it afterwards comes down in floods. EVCO 272.1

The children of Israel drank water from the rock in the desert, and that Rock was Christ; but the water which they drank was in no respect different from what they had often drank before. It quenched the thirst of man and beast, and revived vegetation, just the same as other streams of water do. It was just such water as now flows from the rocks in the mountains. Many of us have seen it gushing forth pure and fresh from the face of a rock; and who has not lingered long to gaze, and to wonder as its ceaseless flow? Have we thought, while thus gazing, that the water came as directly from Christ as did that in the wilderness of Sinai? If not, we have no reason to wonder at the blindness of the children of Israel in the desert, nor to upbraid them for their unbelief and hardness of heart. EVCO 272.2