The School Of The Hereafter (Part 2)

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away...Revelation 21:1.

Before talking about what we shall study for all eternity let’s begin by stating what there will not be in the school of the hereafter.

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. Revelation 21:23.

Let look at the difficulties that will be removed, the exams that will no longer exist and the limitations that will be removed.

No tree of knowledge of good and evil will afford opportunity for temptation. No tempter is there, no possibility of wrong. Every character has withstood the testing of evil, and none are longer susceptible to its power. *

…When, the blight of sin removed, the whole earth shall appear in "the beauty of the Lord our God," what a field will be open to our study! There the student of science may read the records of creation and discern no reminders of the law of evil. He may listen to the music of nature's voices and detect no note of wailing or undertone of sorrow. In all created things he may trace one handwriting--in the vast universe behold "God's name writ large," and not in earth or sea or sky one sign of ill remaining.*

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; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Isaiah 51:3.

What a different world it will be when there is no longer a deceiver; when sin is destroyed and its most terrible consequence, death, shall be no more!
The Lord promises to change our tears to joy. Those who now remain faithful and firm will have the privilege of participating in this school forever.

... These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:14-17.

Then, in the results of His work, Christ will behold its recompense. In that great multitude which no man could number, presented "faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 24), He whose blood has redeemed and whose life has taught us, "shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied." Isaiah 53:11. *

JESUS IS COMING, AMEN, YES COME LORD JESUS!

Education, "35. The School Of The Hereafter ", Ellen G. White