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THE PARADISE OF LIFE RENEWED 287
and of her realm became more marked when she
gave birth to the Kingdom A .D. 1914 . Shortly
afterward her faithful children sleeping in death
were resurrected in heavenly glory and her faithful
remnant still alive in the flesh were delivered
from bondage to this world .
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The prophet Isaiah describes this with paradisaic
terms and tells of the great comfort it
brings to God's faithful spiritual remnant : "Look
unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that
bore you ; for I called him when he was alone,
and blessed him, and multiplied him . For Jehovah
shall comfort ion, he shall comfort all her waste
places ; and he will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of Jehovah as the
paradise of Jehovah, LXX : gladness and joy shall
be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of
song ." Isaiah 51 :2, 3, Dar. The apostle Paul,
caught up to a high state of prophetic ecstasy as
if to the "third heaven", was greatly comforted
with the vision of the prosperity of God's "woman"
or universal organization . Today we are comforted
at the fulfillment of prophecy which shows
that the paradisaic prosperity of God's universal
organization is at its peak. This provides sure
proof that the renewing of earth's paradise for delivered
mankind is near, because God's universal
organization must flourish with its royal children
in Kingdom power and prosperity before paradise
is restored to men on earth .
15 . a How did Isaiah describe this paradisaic state?
b Of what does its fulfillment now provide sure
proof, and why?