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CHAPTER XXVII
THE PARADISE
OF LIFE RENEWED
ONE of the proper works of any righteous
kingdom is the providing of adequate housing
or spacious, comfortable, happy living
quarters for its subjects . This the Kingdom of
the new world will do for mankind by renewing
Paradise. It was the original purpose of Jehovah
God the Creator that all the earth should be a
paradise. With this in view he produced a section
of the earth called Eden, meaning "pleasure", and
there he planted a paradise . The name means
"garden", a spacious one with many and varied
beautiful features . "And the Lord God had planted
a paradise of pleasure from the beginning : wherein
he placed man whom he had formed . And the
Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner
of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of : the
tree of life also in the midst of paradise : and the
tree of knowledge of good and evil . And a river
went out of the place of pleasure to water para
dise, which from thence is divided into four heads .
And the Lord God took man, and put him into the
paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it ."
Genesis 2 :8-10, 15, Douay Outside the paradise
of pleasure all the land was left uncultivated . Not
to remain that way forever, but within seven
1 . What proper provision will the Kingdom make for
the comfort of its subjects? What original feature of
earth will this renew?
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