DAY 363 Read Revelation 21 and 22.
Today's reading: "The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation....All things...declare that God is love."--The Great Controversy, p. 678.
Memory gem: "Behold, the tabernacle of God is 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" (Revelation 21:3).
Thought for today:
This earth will be renewed. It will be an eternal witness to the love of God. God's people will not be pilgrims wandering about a sin-cursed world which Satan claims as his own. They will be coming back home again, back to the garden from which they were driven. Eden lost will be Eden restored. The tree of life, while was here on earth once before, will be brought back from the heavenly land.
This is man's long-lost home. It was lost through sin; it is regained through grace. It is the "first dominion" (Micah 4:8), restored to the human family when God makes all things new. It is the "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21). The New Jerusalem will descend "from God out of heaven" and be the capital of the restored kingdom (see Revelation 21:2).
Look at the measurements of the city: 1,500 miles--some say on each side, some say the distance around. In either case, it is the greatest city the world has ever known. There will be room in it for everybody. Should it have been possible for all the people who have ever lived in the earth to be saved, there would still be room for them. There is always room for you, for anyone. "Whosoever will" may "take the water of life freely," we read right here in the same chapter where it speaks of the wonder world of tomorrow.
Today's reading: "The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation....All things...declare that God is love."--The Great Controversy, p. 678.
Memory gem: "Behold, the tabernacle of God is 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" (Revelation 21:3).
Thought for today:
This earth will be renewed. It will be an eternal witness to the love of God. God's people will not be pilgrims wandering about a sin-cursed world which Satan claims as his own. They will be coming back home again, back to the garden from which they were driven. Eden lost will be Eden restored. The tree of life, while was here on earth once before, will be brought back from the heavenly land.
This is man's long-lost home. It was lost through sin; it is regained through grace. It is the "first dominion" (Micah 4:8), restored to the human family when God makes all things new. It is the "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21). The New Jerusalem will descend "from God out of heaven" and be the capital of the restored kingdom (see Revelation 21:2).
Look at the measurements of the city: 1,500 miles--some say on each side, some say the distance around. In either case, it is the greatest city the world has ever known. There will be room in it for everybody. Should it have been possible for all the people who have ever lived in the earth to be saved, there would still be room for them. There is always room for you, for anyone. "Whosoever will" may "take the water of life freely," we read right here in the same chapter where it speaks of the wonder world of tomorrow.
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