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Visions of a Glorious Future
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“Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare
is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the
Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”
Isaiah 35:6, 7
;
40:2
.
“Violence shall no longer be heard in your land,
Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders;
But you shall call your walls Salvation,
And your gates Praise.”
“Your people shall all be righteous;
They shall inherit the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.”
Isaiah 60:18, 21
The prophet caught the sound of music there, such music and
song as no mortal ear has heard or mind imagined outside of visions
from God. “Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and
the voice of melody.”
Isaiah 51:3
. “Both the singers and the players
on instruments say, ‘All my springs are in you.’”
Psalm 87:7
.
What Life Will Be Like in the New Earth
In the earth made new, the redeemed will engage in the activities
and pleasures that brought happiness to Adam and Eve in the begin-
ning. They will live the Eden life, the life in garden and field. “They
shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and
eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall
not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree, so shall be the
days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their
hands.”
Isaiah 65:21, 22
. They will develop every power, increase
every capability, engage in the grandest activities, and realize their
highest ambitions.
The prophets to whom God revealed these scenes longed to
understand their full meaning, inquiring “about the person or time
that the Spirit of Christ within them indicated. ... They were serving
not themselves but you, in regard to the things that have now been
announced to you.”
1 Peter 1:11, 12
, NRSV.