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THE ABOLITION OF DEATH 289
from Adam's sin and who do not inherit heavenly
Kingdom glory. If all the deadly effects of Adam's
sin are to be wiped out, those graves must be completely
removed, and this they will be by the
resurrection of their dead inmates, by the power
of God's Son who once died as a perfect man .
"For since death is through a man, resurrection
of the dead is also through a man ."-1 Corinthians
15 :21, NW .
3 The symbolic vision which the apostle John
saw of the new world depicts the destruction of
the particular death which it was reserved for
mankind to taste once for all time due to Adam's
sin. "And I saw a great white throne and the one
seated on it. From before him the earth and the
heaven fled away, and no place was found for
them . And I saw the dead, the great and the small,
standing before the throne, and scrolls were
opened. But another scroll was opened ; it is the
scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of
those things written in the scrolls according to
their deeds. And the sea gave up those dead in it,
and death and Hades gave up those dead in them,
and they were judged individually according to
their deeds. And death and Hades were hurled
into the lake of fire . This means the second death,
the lake of fire . Furthermore, whoever was not
found written in the book of life was hurled into
the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a
new earth, for the former heaven and the former
earth had passed away, and the sea is no more . I
saw also the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God and prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband . With that I heard
3 . How did John's vision depict the wiping out of that
death?