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Eternal Peace: The Controversy Ended
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The Triumph of God’s Love
There the loves and sympathies which God Himself has planted
in the soul shall find truest and sweetest exercise. The pure commu-
nion with holy beings and the faithful of all ages, the sacred ties that
bind together “the whole family in heaven and earth”—these help to
constitute the happiness of the redeemed.
Ephesians 3:15
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There, immortal minds will contemplate with never-failing de-
light the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love.
Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The ac-
quirement of knowledge will not exhaust the energies. The grandest
enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached,
the highest ambitions realized. And still there will arise new heights
to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend,
fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body.
All the treasures of the universe will be open to God’s redeemed.
Unfettered by mortality, they wing their tireless flight to worlds
afar. The children of earth enter into the joy and wisdom of unfallen
beings and share treasures of knowledge gained through ages upon
ages. With undimmed vision they gaze upon the glory of creation—
suns and stars and systems, all in their appointed order circling the
throne of Deity.
And the years of eternity, as they roll, will bring still more
glorious revelations of God and of Christ. The more men learn
of God, the greater will be their admiration of His character. As
Jesus opens before them the riches of redemption and the amazing
achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the hearts of the
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ransomed thrill with devotion, and ten thousand times ten thousand
voices unite to swell the mighty chorus of praise.
“And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and
under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto
him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and
ever.”
Revelation 5:13
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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. From Him who created all, flow life
and light and gladness throughout the realms of illimitable space.