Angels in the Great Hereafter
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Not until the providences of God are seen in the light of eternity
shall we understand what we owe to the care and interposition of His
angels. Celestial beings have taken an active part in the affairs of
men.—
Education, 304
.
In the future life we shall understand things that here greatly per-
plex us. We shall realize how strong a helper we had, and how angels
of God were commissioned to guard us as we followed the counsel of
the Word of God.—
The Signs of the Times, January 3, 1906
.
In the world to come, Christ will lead the redeemed beside the river
of life, and will teach them wonderful lessons of truth. He will unfold
to them the mysteries of nature. They will see that a Master-Hand
holds the worlds in position. They will behold the skill displayed by
the great Artist in coloring the flowers of the field, and will learn of
the purposes of the merciful Father, who dispenses every ray of light,
and with the holy angels the redeemed will acknowledge in songs of
grateful praise God’s supreme love to an unthankful world. Then it
will be understood that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.”—
The Review and Herald, January 3, 1907
.
They [the heirs of grace] have even a more sacred relationship to
God than have the angels who have never fallen.—
Testimonies for the
Church 5:740
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By the power of His love, through obedience, fallen man, a worm
of the dust, is to be transformed, fitted to be a member of the heavenly
family, a companion through eternal ages of God and Christ and the
holy angels. Heaven will triumph, for the vacancies made by the fall
of Satan and his host will be filled by the redeemed of the Lord.—
The
Upward Look, 61
.
God created man for His own glory, that after test and trial the
human family might become one with the heavenly family. It was
God’s purpose to repopulate heaven with the human family, if they
would show themselves obedient to His every word. Adam was to be
tested, to see whether he would be obedient, as the loyal angels, or
disobedient.—
The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 1:1082
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The loves and sympathies which God Himself has planted in the
soul, shall there find truest and sweetest exercise. The pure communion
with holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed angels
and with the faithful ones of all ages who have washed their robes and