comforted by telling them that her iniquity is pardoned.
This must be New Jerusalem, for there was never any time set for pardoning the iniquity of Old Jerusalem, which must have had iniquity of some kind and from some source, else she could not be pardoned of it.
The fact that the Lord has commanded to comfort His 26 people by telling them that Jerusalem's iniquity is pardoned, is proof positive that she had iniquity, and that it will be removed before His people are delivered and enter her with songs and everlasting joy.
This message is similar to that in Isaiah 52:9.
After the good and peaceful tidings have been published, saying unto Zion, Thy God reigneth , it is declared, "The Lord has comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem." - Jerusalem was in a state from which she had to be redeemed, and that before the resurrection; for the next verse says, "All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." - Day Star Extra, 1846.
Copied from "Advent Review ," Vol. 1, Nos. 3 & 4, September 1850.