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Harmonious Social Life
Activities in Heaven The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. Psalm 16:6 — {ML 359.1} The loves and sympathies which God Himself has planted in the soul shall there find truest and sweetest exercise. The pure communion with holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed…
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Labor for Pleasure and Enjoyment
Activities in Heaven And 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…
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The Glories of Our Heavenly Home
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. Revelation 21:18, 19 — {ML 357.1} The glorious city of…
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At the Marriage Supper
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. Revelation 19:9 — {ML 356.1} In both the Old and New Testament the marriage relation is employed to represent the tender and sacred union that exists between Christ and His people. To the mind of…
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Eat of the Tree of Life
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Revelation 22:2…
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A Beautiful Country
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared…
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We Shall Recognize Each Other
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 — {ML 353.1} In the mansions above we shall meet to part no more. We shall know each other in our heavenly home. — {ML 353.2} The redeemed will…
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Families Will Be Reunited
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their…
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As Heirs, We Inherit the Kingdom
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34 — {ML 351.1} Before the ransomed throng is the holy city. Jesus opens wide the pearly gates, and the nations that have kept the truth enter in. There…
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No More Sin
Christ Redeems Me Unto Eternal Life And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. Revelation 22:3, 4 — {ML 350.1} Every trace of…