A Marvelous New World

After Armageddon, God's Kingdom will usher in a marvelous "new earth" in which "righteousness is to dwell." (2 Peter 3:13) What a tremendous relief it will be for Armageddon survivors to be rid of this oppressive wicked system of things! How delighted they will be to have entered the righteous new world under the heavenly Kingdom government, with marvelous blessings and everlasting life in view! - Revelation 7:9-17.

No more will people be threatened by war, crime, hunger or even predatory animals. " I will conclude with [my people] a covenant of peace, and I shall certainly cause the injurious wild beast to cease out of the land... and the tree of the field must give its fruitage, and the land itself will give its yield, and they will actually prove to be on their soil in security." "They will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no more making them tremble." - Ezekiel 34:25-28; Micah 4:3, 4.

Sickness, sorrow and even death will be eliminated. "No resident will say: "I am sick.' The people that are dwelling in the land will be those pardoned for their error." (Isaiah 33:24) "[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.... Look! I am making all things new.' " (Revelation 21:4, 5) When he was on earth, Jesus demonstrated his ability to do those things by the power that God had given him. With the backing of the holy spirit, Jesus went throughout the land healing the lame and curing the sick.- Matthew 15:30, 31.

Jesus did even more. He raised the dead. How did humble people react? When he resurrected a 12-year - old girl, her parents "were beside themselves with great ecstasy." (Mark 5:42) This was another example of what Jesus will do earth wide under Kingdom rule, for then "there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous." (Acts 24:15) Imagine the great ecstasy when group after group of the dead come back to life and are reunited with their loved ones! No doubt there will be a great educational work under Kingdom supervision so that "the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are covering the very sea." - Isaiah 11:9.

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