Heaven Will Come to Earth
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All the glory and wonder we associate with "Heaven" is coming to the earth. The Kingdom of God is coming. What has been invisible to earth’s peoples will become visible.
The Kingdom of God is the joining of the Divine and the human, the spiritual and the material. It is God in Christ in the saints governing and blessing all of God’s creatures.
Apart from the light and Glory of God the earth is the valley of the shadow of death. While we are on the earth in our mortal bodies we are in prison. We are in an "honor camp," so to speak. If we misbehave we may be thrown into a literal prison on earth, confining us even more closely.
Let us understand that life on the earth in its present form is not life at all. The world of flesh and blood is a dungeon when compared with the freedom that all of the children of God will enjoy one day.
Mankind is living under the Divine curse. Those who receive the Virtue and Glory of Christ will be totally released from the curse in the Day of the Lord. They then will experience true life and liberty. The will of God shall be done in the earth in them as it is in Heaven.
The Eternal Age, which will commence with the coming to earth of the new Jerusalem, is an endless era of love, peace, joy, and glory for God and man. It is life as God intends life to be. Life on the earth during the Church Age, and during the thousand-year Kingdom Age, is subnormal. These two ages are periods of introduction and preparation for true life—for life as it will be enjoyed during the Eternal Age.
Those who obey God during their time of probation will be brought into eternal life and will enjoy the Eternal Age. The meek will inherit the earth.
Those who turn away from God and grasp this present evil world will never, unless they repent, be trusted with the light and glory of the new world. They have embraced imprisonment and darkness, and imprisonment and darkness will be given to them.
They have chosen Satan over God, and Satan will be given to them. They have chosen spiritual bondage over spiritual liberty, so spiritual bondage will be given to them. God opens His hand and satisfies the deepest desire of every living creature.
The eternal destiny of saved people is eternal life on a new earth under a new heaven. The new earth will be filled with love, joy, and peace.
Best of all, God and His Lamb will be ruling over the nations of the saved. The Throne of God and of the Lamb will be located in the saints who make up the holy city, the new Jerusalem.
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