This was an example or picture representing the
passing away of the present evil world and showing that many will be
carried over from the old to the new. When God had delivered Noah and
his family from the perils of the deluge and Noah builded an altar
before the Lord and offered a sacrifice, the Lord made promise to Noah,
saying: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; ...
neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." (Genesis 8:21,22)
The Scriptures show that "the earth abideth forever". (Ecclesiastes 1:4)
Therefore this statement to Noah is a positive promise that never again
will the earth witness the destruction of every living thing. Seeing,
then, that we are at the end of the old order and the opening of the
new, and that according to the Scriptures many must pass over to the
new, it can be confidently announced that MILLIONS OF PEOPLE NOW LIVING
WILL NEVER DIE, because these being offered restitution blessings the
presumption must be indulged that many of them will accept and be
obedient to the new order of things.
[567]It was Jesus who said: "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die". (John 11:26) The people of the world do not yet live, nor
have they had an opportunity of life; and this opportunity cannot come
to mankind in general until the times of restoration begin.
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