47. THE NEW THRONE . Revelation 22:3-4. “ And there shall be no more curse: but the THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him: and they shall see His FACE: and His NAME shall be in their foreheads.”Whoever heard of an earthly city without some place of worship, be it heathen or Christian, but the wonderful thing about the New Jerusalem is, that it has no Temple. Why need a Temple when the object of worship is present, for “The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb Are the Temple of It.” In fact the whole City itself will be a Temple. “ Then the 'Tabernacle of God' shall be with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His People, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.” Revelation 21:3-4. This means that Heaven shall have come down to Earth, and that this earth will become the OF GOD. The Great Abdication The “Millennial Age” and the “Perfect Age,” between which the Earth is Renovated by Fire, make up the “Age of Ages,” which period is called the KINGDOM OF THE SON OF MAN. At the close of the “ Age of Ages” when Christ “ shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for He must reign till He hath put all enemies under his feet,” then Christ as the Son of Man, shall surrender the Kingdom to God, that God may be ALL IN ALL. 1 Corinthians 15:24-28. This is known as The Great Abdication. There have been many abdications of thrones in the world's history, but none like this. Thrones have been abdicated for various reasons. Some have been forced, others voluntary. Some on account of physical infirmity, or to secure some particular successor. But Christ will not abdicate for any of these reasons. He will abdicate because He has Finished the Work That Was Given Him to Do as the Son of Man. He will not surrender His Human Nature, but His title “Son of Man” will merge back into that of “Son of God” so that the Divine Godhead shall thereafter act in its Unity, and God shall be “ALL IN ALL.”The Ages of the Ages As the “ Creative Ages” were the “ Alpha” Ages, these will be the “ Omega” Ages. With the surrender of the “ Perfect Kingdom” to the Father, what we speak of as “ Time” ceases, and the “ Eternal Ages,” called the “ Ages of the Ages” begin. They correspond to what the Apostle Paul in his Letter to the Ephesians calls the “ Ages to Come.” Ephesians 2:7. And John in the Book of Revelation says that the “ Devil” and the “ Beast” and the “ False Prophet” shall be tormented day and night forever and ever, or for the “Aions” of the “Aions,” the “Ages of the Ages,” Revelation 20:10, and that the “ Servants of God” shall reign for the same period. Revelation 22:5. What those “ Ages of Ages” shall reveal of the Plan and Purpose of God we do not know, but if we are His we shall live to know, and possibly take part in their development. What we do know is that we are but in the beginning of things, and as concerning the “ Ages,” Eternity is still young.