How Paradise Will Be Restored

 While on earth, Jesus taught his followers to pray for the very means that God will restore righteous conditions earth wide. Jesus said we should pray: "Let thy heavenly father, Jehovah be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done in heaven as well as on the earth." (Matthew 6:10) God his Son to be the Ruler of this Kingdom, will carry out God's purpose that Paradise condition be enjoyed everywhere on earth.

Regarding the One whom God has appointed as Ruler, the Bible said: "There has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us; and the princely rule will come to be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called . . . Prince of Peace. To the abundance of the princely rule and to peace there will be no end." (Isaiah 9:6, 7) Yet, how will this government under such "princely rule" carry out the will of God?

The Bible answers, saying: "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom [the princely rule] that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite." - DANIEL 2:44.

Let us consider the conditions that will prevail on earth in the restored Paradise, yes, "in the re-creation," when God's Son exercises his power as the 'princely rule' in his Father's Kingdom.

Next time: What Life in Paradise Will Be Like/Resurrection of the dead

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