DELIERANCE INTO A RIGHTEOUS NEW WORLD - The New World

The New World

What a thrilling time that will be-the elimination of wickedness and the dawn of the most glorious era in all human history!  (Revelation 20:1-4)   How grateful to Jehovah the Armageddon survivors will be to have entered a bright, clean  civilization of God's making, a new world, on an earth that will be transformed into a paradise!  ( Luke 23:43)  And they will never need to die at all!  (John 11:26)  Indeed, from that point onward, they will have the amazing , marvelous prospect of living as long as Jehovah lives!

Jesus, whom Jehovah has appointed as heavenly King, will oversee the miraculous blessings that the delivered ones will enjoy.  When on earth, he opened blind eyes and deaf ears and cured "every  sort of disease and every sort of infirmity."  (Matthew 9:35; 15:30, 31)  In the new world, he will resume that great healing work but on a global scale.  As God's Agent, he will fulfill the promise:  "[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry not pain be anymore.  The former things have passed away."  (Revelation 21:4) Never again will there be need  for medical practitioners or undertakers! -Isaiah 25:8; 33"24.

Also delivered will be all those faithful servants of God who died in the past.  In the  new world, they will be rescued from the clutches of the grave.   Jehovah guarantees:  "There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous."  (Acts 24:15)  Likely, "righteous" ones will be resurrected earlier and contribute to the expanding Paradise.  How fascinating it will be for Armageddon survivors to hear the experiences of those faithful dead ones of long ago, now returned to life! -John 5:28, 29.

All those living will then experience what the psalmist said of Jehovah:  "You are opening your hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing."  (Psalm 145:16)  No more hunger:  The earth will be restored to an ecological balance and produce abundantly.  (Psalm 72:16) No more homeless people:  "They will certainly build houses  and have occupancy," and each one will sit "under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one  making them tremble."   (Isaiah 65:21, 22;Micah 4:4)  No more fear: There will be no war, violence, or crime.  (Psalm 46:8, 9; Proverbs 2:22)  "The whole earth has come to rest, has become free of disturbance.  People will become  cheerful with joyful cries." -Isaiah 14:7.

In the new world, Satan's propaganda media will have been removed.  Instead,  "righteousness is what the inhabitants of the productive land will certainly learn."  (Isaiah 26:9; 54:13)   With wholesome spiritual instruction year after year.  "the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are cover the very sea."  (Isaiah 11:9)  Up building thoughts and actions will permeate mankind.  (Philippians 4:8) Imagine, a worldwide society of people free from crime, egotism, jealously-an international brotherhood where the fruitage of God's spirit is produced by all.  Indeed,m even now such qualities are being cultivated by the great crowd. -Galatians 5:22,23.

Next time: DELIVERANCE INTO A RIGHTEOUS NEW WORLD - Why So Long?

The Watchtower, 1997