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248 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
they stood on the borders of the Promised Land :
"What nation is there so great, that hath statutes
and judgments so righteous as all this law, which
I set before you this day? Only take heed to thyself,
and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget
the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest
they depart from thy heart all the days of thy
life : but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons ;
specially the day that thou stoodest before the
LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto
me, Gather me the people together, and I will
make them hear my words, that they may learn
to fear me all the days that they shall live upon
the earth, and that they may teach their children."
Through teaching their children, the parents
themselves would be kept from forgetting
God's will and commandments .-Deuteronomy
4 :8-10 .
3 The desire of all God-fearing parents or caretakers
of children is that they may live forever
in God's righteous new world . The foundation for
such life everlasting is laid now during this system
of things, now at the entrance of the child
into his life-course . Our theme "rearing children
in divine favor" does not refer to the rearing of
the children of Armageddon survivors in that new
world when all surrounding conditions and all
forces in operation will be toward helping those
who live to do righteousness . No ; but it refers to
rearing children who are born now before the battle
of Armageddon . Not only is the life of all chil-
3 . Why is proper rearing of children vital now before
Armageddon?