December 27: An Eternity of Bliss.
We Shall Enjoy the Work of Our Hands.
"In those days people will live in the houses they build and eat the fruit of their own vineyards. Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses and confiscate their vineyards."--Isaiah 65:21, 22, NLT
IN THE EARTH MADE NEW, the redeemed will engage in the occupations and pleasures that brought happiness to Adam and Eve in the beginning. The Eden life will be lived, the life in garden and field. "They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them....For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, and Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." Isaiah 65:21, 22....
The prophets to whom these great scenes were revealed longed to understand their full import. They "inquired and searched diligently:...searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify....Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you." 1 Peter 1:10-12.
To us who are standing on the very verge of their fulfillment, of what deep moment, what living interest, are these delineations of the things to come--events for which, since our first parents turned their steps from Eden, God's children have watched and waited, longed and prayed!--Prophet and Kings, 730, 731.
"They will not work in vain,
and their children will not be doomed to misfortune.
For they are people blessed by the Lord,
and their children, too, will be blessed."
--Isaiah 65:23, NLT
We Shall Enjoy the Work of Our Hands.
"In those days people will live in the houses they build and eat the fruit of their own vineyards. Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses and confiscate their vineyards."--Isaiah 65:21, 22, NLT
IN THE EARTH MADE NEW, the redeemed will engage in the occupations and pleasures that brought happiness to Adam and Eve in the beginning. The Eden life will be lived, the life in garden and field. "They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them....For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, and Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." Isaiah 65:21, 22....
The prophets to whom these great scenes were revealed longed to understand their full import. They "inquired and searched diligently:...searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify....Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you." 1 Peter 1:10-12.
To us who are standing on the very verge of their fulfillment, of what deep moment, what living interest, are these delineations of the things to come--events for which, since our first parents turned their steps from Eden, God's children have watched and waited, longed and prayed!--Prophet and Kings, 730, 731.
"They will not work in vain,
and their children will not be doomed to misfortune.
For they are people blessed by the Lord,
and their children, too, will be blessed."
--Isaiah 65:23, NLT
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