182 No Dirty Dogs

No dirty dogs shall ever trample upon that golden pavement. By Thomas Brooks Throughout the scriptures, unholy people are branded to their everlasting contempt with the worst appellations. They are the most dangerous and the most harmful beings in the world and therefore are emblemized by lions, for they are cruel, by bears, for they are savage, by dragons, for they are hideous, by wolves, for they are ravenous, by dogs, for they are snarling, by vipers and scorpions, for they are stinging, by spiders and cockatrices, for they are poisoning, by swine, for they are intemperate. Remember this, that all these stinging expressions and appellations which disgrace and vilify unholy people were inspired by the Holy Spirit and published in His Holy Word. The glutton is depicted as a swine. The fraudulent person is depicted as a fox. The lustful person is depicted as a goat. The backbiter is depicted as a barking cure. The slanderer is depicted as an asp. The oppressor is depicted as a wolf. The persecutor is depicted as a tiger. The seducer is depicted as a serpent. Do you think that God admits such vermin as unholy people are to eternally inhabit His holy heaven? Surely not. God has long since resolved upon it that no unclean beasts shall enter into heaven, that no dirty dogs shall ever trample upon that golden pavement. Certainly, God will not allow such beasts and toads and snakes and serpents to forever live with Him. Heaven is a too holy place to admit such vermin to inhabit. Nothing impure will ever enter it. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. All in heaven are holy. The angels holy. The saints holy. But the Lord Himself above all is most glorious in holiness. Now certainly, it would be a hell to these holy ones to have unholy wretches to be their eternal companions. When the angels fell from their holiness, heaven was so holy that it spewed them out. Certainly, there will be no room in heaven for such filthy beasts as unholy people are. Jerusalem above is too glorious a habitation for beasts or for men of beastly spirits or beastly principles or beastly practices. The city of the great God was never built for beasts. A wilderness and not a paradise is fittest for beasts.