And there is hope in thine end,
saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border."
--Jeremiah 31:16,17.
[588]As the dead come back from the tombs, provision will be made for
them by their friends who are living on the earth. Families long broken
up will be again united; and sadness will give way to joy. The whole
human race, ransomed by the Lord, will have this opportunity; and the
Prophet describes it thus: "The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and
come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away".
(Isaiah 35:10) Gradually, throughout the thousand years of Messiah's
reign, will the human race march up over the highway of holiness, until
all will have had a full and fair opportunity, the willfully wicked
destroyed and the obedient ones restored to perfection of body and mind
and heart.
[589]The people of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire. It does
not mean, however, that they went into an endless torture, as we have
heretofore been led to believe. On the contrary, the Lord plainly states
that they shall be brought back to their former estate; that is, as
human beings on the earth, for the purpose of being given a trial. "When
thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former
estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former
estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
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