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There 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.
And as the years of eternity roll, they will bring richer and more
glorious revelations of God and of Christ. As knowledge is progres-
sive, so will love, reverence, and happiness increase. The more men
learn of God, the greater will be their admiration of His character. As
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Jesus opens before them the riches of redemption and the amazing
achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the hearts of the
ransomed beat with a stronger devotion, and they sweep the harps
of gold with a firmer hand: and ten thousand times ten thousand and
thousands of thousands of voices unite to swell the mighty chorus
of praise.
“And every creature which is in heaven, and on earth, and under
the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard
I saying, Blessing, and honour, 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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Sin and sinners are no more, God’s entire universe is clean, and
the great controversy is forever ended.