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290 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
a loud voice from the throne say : Look! the tent
of God is with humankind, and he will reside with
them, and they will be his peoples . And God himself
will be with them . And he will wipe out every
tear from their eyes, and death will be no more,
neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be any
more . The former things have passed away. And
the one seated on the throne said : Look! I am
making all things new.' "-Revelation 20 :11 to
21 :5, NW.
4 The "great crowd" of other sheep who come
out of the great tribulation and survive the fleeing
away of the present heavens and earth at Armageddon
will be alive on the cleansed earth
when this marvelous vision takes on reality. Without
needing to be raised from the grave they are
in the path to perfect human life which the rule
of the heavenly New Jerusalem then opens up for
mankind . However, they need to be relieved of all
the disabilities which they inherited as Adam's
descendants . They will not be made instantaneously
perfect immediately after Armageddon . But
as they travel the way of obedience during the
thousand years of the Kingdom they will be healed
of every trace of sin and its deadly effects . Continuing
in this course of unbreakable obedience
even through the "little while" that Satan and his
demons are loosed at the end of the millennium,
they may live forever with full divine approval,
being declared actually righteous in every sense .
In them Jesus' words at the time of raising Lazarus
from the tomb will be literally realized : "I am
the resurrection and the life . He that exercises
4, 5 . a What will the great crowd of survivors need to
be relieved of? b How will many such now living
"never die at all"?