New Earth Activities

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for December 18
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New Earth Activities

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. Isa. 65:21, 22. 


We cannot suppose that when the final triumph shall come, and we have
the mansions prepared for us, idleness will be our portion--that we
shall rest in a blissful, do-nothing state. 

In the earth made new, the redeemed will engage in the occupations and
pleasures that brought happiness to Adam and Eve in the beginning. 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. 

There I saw most glorious houses, that had the appearance of silver,
supported by four pillars set with pearls most glorious to behold. These
were to be inhabited by the saints. In each was a golden shelf. I saw
many of the saints go into the houses, take off their glittering crowns
and lay them on the shelf, then go out into the field by the houses to
do something with the earth; not as we have to do with the earth here;
no, no. A glorious light shone all about their heads, and they were
continually shouting and offering praises to God. 

Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The
acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the
energies. 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.

>From Maranatha - Page 360