blood is here meant, but the good of the Lord's own love and the truths of wisdom with which his Word is all aglow, is plain enough; for, as if to place the meaning beyond all doubt, this is immediately added: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." (John vi. 51-63.) And so we have Divine authority for affirming that the Lord's words are the living bread of heaven—the food on which the angels live.
Furthermore, we are taught to pray that the Lord's will may be done on earth as it is done in heaven. What can this mean but that men on earth should desire and seek after the life of heaven?—Should cherish such loves as the angels cherish, act from such motives as the angels act from, aim at such ends as the angels aim at, and in all things endeavor to conform their lives to the revealed laws or will of the Lord as the angels do.
Now if we can learn from the written Word what is the essential nature of the life which men on earth are capable of receiving, and which God desires they should receive, we may then know what kind of life the angels receive, or what is the essential nature of heaven. In other words, we may learn how the angels live, by seeing how the Lord requires those to live whom He desires and is endeavoring to make angels.
We read in the prophecy by Micah: "He hath showed thee. O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" (vi. 8.)
