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292 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
ing in the Bible to show that married couples must
dissolve their marriage ties and companionship
and that the surviving single men and women
must not marry. Jehovah's mandate to the deluge
survivors gives the Armageddon survivors reason
for the expectation that Jehovah by his King, the
Greater Noah, will issue a like mandate to them .
This in no way nullifies His purpose and promise
of the general resurrection of the dead. The King
can adjust the carrying out of the marriage mandate
of Armageddon survivors with the resurrection.
When the King judges that the earth has
been adequately filled, human childbearing will
cease ; it will have served its purpose .
8 The children born to such post-Armageddon
parents will not be born perfect, for their parents
will not be perfect, and hence they will feel the effects
of their parents' being descendants from
Adam. For this reason they, too, will need the
benefits of Christ's ransom sacrifice and the help
of God's kingdom just as much as their parents do .
They will have the blessing, though, of being born
under the Righteous Government and being engendered
and reared by righteously disposed parents
of integrity toward God . But they must yet stand
the final trial with all mankind.
9 However, before Jesus' death and resurrection
and the Pentecostal outpouring of God's holy
spirit there was a long line of faithful men and
women . They exercised faith in the coming Seed
of God's "woman", the promised Seed of Abraham
for mankind's blessing, and the Messianic Seed or
e . Will children then born need Christ's ransom and
kingdom? Why?
9 . What long line of faithful men and women preceded
Christ's death? How did they live and die?