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Show 24 This earth is our home; it was framed expressly for the habitation of those who are faithful to God, and who prove themselves worthy to inherit the earth when the Lord shall have sanctified, purified and glorified it and brought it back into his presence from which it fell into space. Ask the astronomer how far we are from the nearest of those heavenly bodies that are called the fixed stars. Can he count the miles? It would be a task for him to tell us the distance. 45 The fixed stars are glorified worlds, filled with beings who are passing through degrees of perfection; every fixed star is a glorified sun and it has its pe~ple and a Ruler God .... Our God is a consuming fire. 46 No mortal man has ever seen God in his glory at any time and lived. 23 When the earth was framed and brought ,into existence and man was_ placed upon it, it was near the throne of our Father in heaven. And·when man fell--though that was designed in the , economy, ther~ was nothing about it mysterious or unknown to -the Gods; they understood it all; it was all planned--but when man fell,the earth fell into space, and took up its abode in this ·planetary syste)TI, and the sun be-came our light. When the· Lord· said--"Let there be light," there was light, for the earth was brought near the sun that it might re-fleet up'on it so as to give us light by day, and the moon to give us light by night. This is the glory the earth came from, and when it is glorified it will return again unto the presence of the Father, and it will dwell there. 45 The . Lord Jesus Christ, our elder brother, the Saviour of the world, the heir of the family, when he has put down satan,and destroyed death then te will say, come let us go home into the presence of the father. What will become of the world then? It will be baptized with fire. It has been baptized with water, and it will then be cleansed by fire, and become like a sea of glass, and be made Celestial; and Jesus Christ our Elder brother will take the whole earth, with all the saints and go with them to the father even to Adam; ... We have all come from one father even Adam, both the black and the white, the grisseled and the gray; and noble and the ignoble; and the time will come, . when they will all come back again into his presence. When they have behaved themselves, and proved faithful to their calling, and to their God the curse will be removed, from every class, and nation of men that desires to do the work of God. 7 |
