It is a question with some whether the saints will go up to God into the New Jerusalem at the second coming of Christ. Some suppose that they will be taken up from the earth, and then let down at Old Jerusalem, even before the earth is made new. But in this case they should most certainly be marked for Old Jerusalem. If you wished to send a box of goods to John Smith, Boston, you would write upon it John Smith, Boston,—not New Orleans. We will see how the saints are to be marked, as this will determine their place of destination. What says "he that hath the key of David" on this point.
"I will write upon them the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God." Rev. iii, 12. This is indeed definite, "I will write upon them the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God." How very natural to conclude that "the city of my God," mentioned here, is a city now existing, located where God is. But the next clause is more definite—"which is New Jerusalem." Not Old Jerusalem which is in bondage with her children; but the New Jerusalem. The next clause is most definite—"which cometh down out of heaven from my God." Here the city to which the overcomers will be taken, is described, first, as the city of God; second, the New Jerusalem; and third, a city which is to come down out of heaven from God. Paul, in contrasting the two Jerusalems, [Gal. iv, 25, 26,] has also most definitely pointed out the city of God above. "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children; but Jerusalem WHICH IS ABOVE IS FREE, which is the mother of us all."
Reader, giving this testimony proper weight, where think ye the children of the "Jerusalem which is above" will go at the second coming of Jesus? Will they go to Old Jerusalem? or will they go up to God in the New Jerusalem, which is free, and the mother of us all?