HERE & NOW for THEN & THERE Pt. 2
ALL OF CREATION WILL HAVE UNDERGONE A REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION! The so-called "natural disasters" that plague the World's people today will occur no more!
THAT GIGANTIC GLOWING GOLDEN PYRAMID STANDING ON THE NEW EARTH is the largest, most amazing structure that the World has ever seen! Composed of a now-unknown-to-man crystal-gold material, the entire structure radiates with a beautiful warm glow that can be seen for thousands of miles by the inhabitants of the New Earth!
Italic text by David Berg - and The Family Missions
The Crystal City--our home base and headquarters--was now in continual orbit around the Earth, not in competition but in perfect harmony with the orbit of the Moon. For the natural kindred--"the unsaved who survived Armageddon" our passions were outstretched and attuned--it was like God's perpetual presence in the sky, as well as a veritable feast for the eyes!
Now, they had to learn to "believe" as in the Greek New Testament sense of the word "Pisteuo," meaning to "drink in!" Their salvation was going to be somewhat different than ours had been! They now had to receive the Lord's spirit--as well as us, as His representatives--and to embrace Jesus' law of love, which was what religion all came down to now: "To love the Lord and your neighbor as yourself!" There were no other religious or civil laws anymore than the simple law of love except for a simple set of international rules and regulations to facilitate good organisation of course.
HELP FROM PAST GENERATIONS OF SAINTS
In fact, God has so few Christians who are really dedicated and consecrated and who really love him and are concerned about the way He wants things, that I'm sure He will probably have a little difficulty picking out enough people to fill all the jobs there! He's probably going to have to draw a good deal on some of the past Christians, those who have gone on before. Don't forget, we won't be the only ones who get caught up in the Rapture, we're not the only ones going to Heaven!--There are millions of Christians from past generations who will be there with us!
ALL KINDS OF GRADES, CLASSES, AND LEVELS OF CHRISTIANS
I'm sure the great Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles and heroes of the Bible and of History, who were so faithful to the Lord in this life, will be trusted with a lot of responsibility in the next life!
In fact, this is the whole purpose of life: to prepare us for the next life, when in the Millennium we are going to have to learn how to run the whole World! We are now in our training period in this life in preparation for ruling the World in the next! And if we don't pass the tests and complete the grades and learn the lessons He's trying to teach us in this life, we shall certainly be unfit to rule in the next and shall surely be the least of all in the coming Kingdom of God on Earth, raised to everlasting shame and contempt before all! (Dan.12:2.)
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WHY DOES GOD ALLOW EVIL IN THE WORLD?
The whole idea of creation is the struggle between good and evil and to show the difference. If there was no darkness we wouldn't appreciate the light. If we didn't have the Devil, we wouldn't appreciate God and Jesus! There has to be evil in order to understand good. They never really appreciated the Garden until they lost it--God's good!
The Temptation of Jesus
…Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY." Matthew 4:8-10 ESV
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