BanjoPicker
Senior Member
If one can conceive of the wonderful conditions that would have been on the Earth today if man had not fallen and then transfer that idea to the New Earth he would have the whole plan of the Bible, as far as the future is concerned. The fall of man does not do away with God's original purpose. It has only postponed this purpose until the final restitution of all things. In other words, if man not fallen there would have been natural life forever. Children would have been born forever. Animals would have been born for man and utilized by him for his own good. There would have been no thorns and thistles or curse of any kind on the Earth as we know it at the present time. There would have been no suffering, pain, tears, failures, sin, death, or any of the present effects of man's rebellion. Certainly, every man can, conceive of these wonderful conditions on the Earth if man had sinned. These perfect and sinless conditions would have been eternal for as long as man remained true to God.
If one can conceive of eternal perfect conditions and natural eternal life of man, with children being born endlessly, if man had not sinned, he can, also conceive of the same thing in the New Earth, when the curse is removed, and natural man continues the original program of God forever, as would have come to pass if man had never fallen. What is there hard to understand about this glorious natural state in the New Earth since it is clear that this same condition would have continued forever if man had not fallen.
Even if man had remained true to God and had not fallen, He did not plan to resurrect men and give them heavenly bodies. Neither is God going to resurrect, change from natural to spiritual bodies, and make the future natural men spiritual and heavenly in body. The men who will not rebel with Satan at the end of the Millennium will continue on Earth forever as natural people. It is only the rebels at the end of the Millenium that will be destroyed from the Earth. By that time, it will, possible to live forever in natural bodies just as man could have done if he had never sinned, for the curse will be removed with all of its affects just as if man had never sinned. The men will live in natural bodies forever and carry out the original creative purpose in replenishing the Earth and continuing natural life on the Earth. During the present curse, God is getting through a refining process, and heavenly people out of the race to reign over all coming generations of natural people.
Besides all the Scriptures proving eternal generations of natural people, which are just as plain as they read, and mean just what they say, there are three passages speaking of a thousand generations, which is a Hebraism for perpetual generations (Deut. 7:9, 1 Chron. 16:15; Ps. 105:8). In Ps. 90:10 Moses speaks of our years as being from seventy to eighty. If the thousand generations were to be calculated on the basis, we should have continuance of the human race for 70,000 to 80,000 years. This would be about to conceive of as eternal generations. Then too, where in Scripture are we told that generations are to cease after this long period? The word generation (singular and plural) is used 213 times in the Bible and in every case except in Gen. 2:4, it is used of natural generations of men and their multiplying posterity in the Earth.
If one can conceive of eternal perfect conditions and natural eternal life of man, with children being born endlessly, if man had not sinned, he can, also conceive of the same thing in the New Earth, when the curse is removed, and natural man continues the original program of God forever, as would have come to pass if man had never fallen. What is there hard to understand about this glorious natural state in the New Earth since it is clear that this same condition would have continued forever if man had not fallen.
Even if man had remained true to God and had not fallen, He did not plan to resurrect men and give them heavenly bodies. Neither is God going to resurrect, change from natural to spiritual bodies, and make the future natural men spiritual and heavenly in body. The men who will not rebel with Satan at the end of the Millennium will continue on Earth forever as natural people. It is only the rebels at the end of the Millenium that will be destroyed from the Earth. By that time, it will, possible to live forever in natural bodies just as man could have done if he had never sinned, for the curse will be removed with all of its affects just as if man had never sinned. The men will live in natural bodies forever and carry out the original creative purpose in replenishing the Earth and continuing natural life on the Earth. During the present curse, God is getting through a refining process, and heavenly people out of the race to reign over all coming generations of natural people.
Besides all the Scriptures proving eternal generations of natural people, which are just as plain as they read, and mean just what they say, there are three passages speaking of a thousand generations, which is a Hebraism for perpetual generations (Deut. 7:9, 1 Chron. 16:15; Ps. 105:8). In Ps. 90:10 Moses speaks of our years as being from seventy to eighty. If the thousand generations were to be calculated on the basis, we should have continuance of the human race for 70,000 to 80,000 years. This would be about to conceive of as eternal generations. Then too, where in Scripture are we told that generations are to cease after this long period? The word generation (singular and plural) is used 213 times in the Bible and in every case except in Gen. 2:4, it is used of natural generations of men and their multiplying posterity in the Earth.
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