Now you will remember that St. John, the revelator, has told us that it was revealed to him that "the seven lamps of fire, were the seven spirits of God," while Job says, "A flame goeth out of His mouth, and God by his spirit garnished the heavens."

We wish you to bear this evidence in mind. For Job not only speaks of a plurality of heavens, but explains by what agency they were garnished—even by the Spirit of God. Now we know that garnishment is transcendent brightness, and brilliancy; to adorn and polish surface. Is it not therefore, probable that Job had reference to that bright ethereal spirit flame, whose brilliancy blinds us if we attempt a lingering gaze at the Sun's bright disk? 'Tis said that heaven within is lighted with the "glory of God."

In our previous arguments, we have showed, conclusively, that the Sun is the source of fire, heat, and light. Let us now further examine the offices of this element thus derived from the Sun, and note in this investigation whether it is not, in some way, intimately connected with heaven.

First. Under the Mosaic dispensation, God commanded His Prophets, and Priests, to build unto Him an Altar, and to offer sacrifices thereon; and such sacrifices would be accepted by Him, as should be evidenced by his sending down fire from heaven to consume the offerings. He also commanded, through Moses, that the fires should ever be burning upon the altar, and that the Priests should continue to renew sacrifices and burnt offerings upon it. These sacrifices were as memorials before the Lord, and typical of the coming of Christ, who should be the "great sacrifice," to ransom fallen man.

Now it will be remembered that when such offerings were made, fire came down from heaven and consumed the offerings, and thus made manifest that the sacrifices were accepted of God. (Let it be remembered that we have shown, as far as finite mind can comprehend, that the Sun is the only direct source of fire, and then remember that fire came down from heaven.)

In the book of Job we read,

"The fire of God has fallen from heaven."

The Psalmist tells us that

"God is a Sun and a shield, who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire."

Now we know that angels are God's ministers, and how oft do we find recorded in the Bible, how—under the earlier dispensation—they appeared on earth in forms of fire, and with the brightness of the Sun.