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Rh life of God within. It forms an approach of God to man, and necessarily veils the truth and life of God, who is within the Word as its internal. The letter of the Word is like a cloud that obscures the sun, or like the atmosphere that receives and tempers to the body the consuming heat and light of the sun. The letter of the Word is the clouds of heaven because when not understood or misconstrued it obscures the heavenly things within and the Lord. The Second Coming of the Lord occurred through His coming in these clouds of heaven, the letter of the Word. There this same Jesus, by removing mental clouds, and the consequent opening of man's vision to Himself in the letter of the Word, comes again to abide with us forever.

This is such a coming that two can be in one bed, or grinding together at the mill, or in the same field, and one be taken and the other left. One may see in light like the lightning that shineth from the