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faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life,
and everyone that is living and exercises faith
in me will never die at all ."-John 11 :25,26, NW.
5 This makes it perfectly possible that members
of the "great crowd" of his other sheep now living
will never die at all . But even if any members
of this "great crowd" do die before the new heavens
and new earth are fully ushered in after Armageddon,
they have the King's promise of coming
to life by resurrection under the Kingdom, if
they died exercising faith in him . Reasonably, an
early resurrection in their case!
6 Death, not the battle of Armageddon, dissolves
the marriage tie. Romans 7 :1-3 Human marriage
relationships and new marriages will not
cease among that great crowd of survivors of Armageddon,
just as marriage ties between Noah's
household survived the global deluge. After they
took up life again outside the ark, God authorized
them to bring forth a multitudinous offspring,
giving them his blessing with this mandate : "Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth ; . Ye
therefore be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the
earth and multiply therein." Noah and his wife
did not themselves bring forth any more children,
but they did so indirectly through their three sons
and three daughters-in-law .-Genesis 9 :1-7, Roth .
As the "great crowd" of other sheep surviving
Armageddon are destined for life in the paradise
earth, Jesus' statement that things during his
presence would be like those of Noah's day includes
doubtless this postflood mandate to be
fruitful, multiply and fill the earth . There is noth-
6. Does Armageddon dissolve marriage ties and stop
new marriages? What furnishes an illustration?
7. Will there be childbearing after Armageddon? Under
what arrangement? For how long?