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that is! We are going to see it too, the angels of God

ascending and descending on the Son of man. We are going

to see Him in His kingdom, when the kingdom comes in

publicly and, the angels will ascend and descend on Him. He

will be the centre of everything that is for God and for man

here. How wonderful to think of that! The Lord was delighting

in that. It is wider than the King of Israel. He will be the King of

Israel all right; but He was rejected as the King of Israel and so

He takes up the wider title, which is Psalm 8, the Son of man.

So each one of these persons had his own impression of

Christ and I would like to say to every one of us who is a true

Christian that we all should have some impression of Christ.

You would not be a believer truly if you did not. You may have

got away from it, but you can get back to it. It is a wonderful

thing that! I often like to get back to the way the Lord first

made Himself known to me. If you are down in your soul, and

things do not seem like they should be, then you can always

get back to that, the way the Lord made Himself known to you.

How precious it is! These men would all cherish these

impressions that they had of Christ; I am sure they would grow

with them. Mr. Raven spoke of them coming into orbit.

Every true Christian is brought into orbit. It is like the solar

system. There is a centre and everything is held by the power,

of attraction to that Centre. Christ comes in as the great

Source, the great Centre, and your life and your soul are

affected by your own knowledge of Him. I would like to

encourage everyone to cultivate that. You say, ‘Well, I have

got away from it. It has become so dim that it does not mean

so much to me now’. But

you can get back to it.

I am encouraged by the end of the Revelation—“And the Spirit

and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come.

And let him that is athirst come; he that will, let him take the