Inheritance of the Saved

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for December 11
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Inheritance of the Saved

My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places. Isa. 32:18. 


In the Bible the inheritance of the saved is called "a country." Hebrews
11:14-16. There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of
living waters. The tree of life yields its fruit every month, and the
leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations. There are
ever-flowing streams, clear as crystal, and beside them waving trees
cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ransomed of the Lord.
There the wide-spreading plains swell into hills of beauty, and the
mountains of God rear their lofty summits. On those peaceful plains,
beside those living streams, God's people, so long pilgrims and
wanderers, shall find a home. . . . 

There, "the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." "Instead of the
thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up
the myrtle tree." "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid; . . . and a little child shall lead
them." "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," saith
the Lord. Isaiah 35:1; 55:13; 11:6, 9. There man will be restored to his
lost kingship, and the lower order of beings will again recognize his
sway; the fierce will become gentle, and the timid trustful. 

Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of heaven. There will be no more
tears, no funeral trains, no badges of mourning. "There shall be no more
death, neither sorrow, nor crying: . . . for the former things are
passed away." "The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity." Revelation 21:4; Isaiah
33:24. 

There the Eden life will be lived, the life in garden and field. "They
shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the
days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their
hands." Isaiah 65:21, 22.

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