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286 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
spiritual resurrection they will be instantaneously
changed and be clothed upon with immortality and
incorruption in heaven. It is in this way they will
be granted the prize of eating of the symbolic tree
of life . 1 Corinthians 15 :44, 51-54 At that time,
too, God's heavenly universal organization is in a
glorious condition like a paradise .
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This paradise condition of God's universal organization
is what the apostle Paul miraculously
saw in vision. He describes it in these words : "I
know a man in union with Christ who, fourteen
years ago-whether in the body I do not know,
or out of the body I do not know ; God knowswas
caught away as such to the third heaven . Yes,
I know such a man-whether in the body or apart
from the body, I do not know, God knows-that
he was caught away into paradise and heard unutterable
words which it is not lawful for a man
to speak ." 2 Corinthians 12 :2-4, NW When Jesus
Christ was resurrected and ascended to heaven
as the full-born Seed of God's "woman", God's
heavenly universal organization which had been
like a barren woman, desolate without royal children
till then, took on a flourishing appearance
like a paradise . This was added to at the following
day of Pentecost, when Jesus Christ poured out
the holy spirit upon the waiting congregation on
earth. There his faithful disciples were born of
water and spirit to be children of God's universal
organization, free Jerusalem above . His "woman"
now abounded with royal children and spiritual
prosperity . Galatians 4 :26-28, 31 This flourishing,
paradiselike condition of God's "woman"
14. a What was the paradise to which the apostle
Paul was caught away? b Why does it flourish more
so since A .D . 1914?