206
The Truth About Angels
The efficiency of the cross guards the redeemed race from the
danger of a second fall. The life and death of Christ effectually unveils
the deceptions of Satan, and refutes his claims. The sacrifice of Christ
for a fallen world draws not only men, but angels unto Him [in] bonds
of indissoluble union. Through the plan of salvation the justice and
mercy of God are fully vindicated, and to all eternity rebellion will
never again arise, affliction never again touch the universe of God.—
The Messenger, June 7, 1893
.
[297]
The Earth Made New
When God finally purifies the earth, it will appear like a boundless
lake of fire. As God preserved the ark amid the commotions of the
Flood, because it contained eight righteous persons, He will preserve
the New Jerusalem, containing the faithful of all ages.... Although the
whole earth, with the exception of that portion where the city rests,
will be wrapped in a sea of liquid fire, yet the city is preserved as was
the ark, by a miracle of Almighty power. It stands unharmed amid the
devouring elements.—
Spiritual Gifts 3:87
.
The New Earth and Our Eternal Inheritance
He [Moses] saw the earth purified by fire and cleansed from every
vestige of sin, every mark of the curse, and renovated and given to the
saints to possess forever and ever.—
Manuscript Releases 10:158
.
The plan of redemption will not be fully understood, even when the
ransomed see as they are seen and know as they are known; but through
the eternal ages new truth will continually unfold to the wondering
and delighted mind.—
The Great Controversy, 651
.
In the plan of redemption there are heights and depths that eter-
nity itself can never exhaust, marvels into which the angels desire
to look. The redeemed only, of all created beings, have in their own
experience known the actual conflict with sin; they have wrought
with Christ, and, as even the angels could not do, have entered into
[298]
the fellowship of His sufferings; will they have no testimony as to
the science of redemption—nothing that will be of worth to unfallen
beings?—
Education, 308
.