Royalty and Ruin

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 beginning. 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. RR 255.5

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. RR 255.6

Struggling friend, we are still in the shadows and turmoil of earthly activities, but soon our Savior will appear. Soon we will see Him who is the focus of our hopes of eternal life. And in His presence the trials of this life will seem like nothing. The former things “shall not be remembered or come to mind.” “Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: ‘For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry.’” Isaiah 65:17; Hebrews 10:35-37. RR 255.7

Look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the wide, limitless future of glory. “Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” James 5:7, 8. RR 256.1

The nations of the saved will know no other law than the law of heaven. All will be a happy, united family. The morning stars will sing together, and the sons of God will shout for joy, while God and Christ will unite in proclaiming, “There shall be no more sin, neither shall there be any more death.” RR 256.2

“‘From one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,’ says the Lord.” “For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.” RR 256.3

“As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.” Isaiah 66:23; 51:3; 62:5. RR 256.4