The Saint's
Heaven Orson Pratt
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Saint, who is one in deed and in truth, does not look for an immaterial
heaven but he expects a heaven with lands, houses, cities, vegetation,
rivers, and animals; with thrones, temples, palaces, kings, princes,
priests, and angels; with food, raiment, musical instruments, etc.;
all of which are material. Indeed the Saint's heaven is a redeemed,
glorified, celestial material creation, inhabited by glorified material
beings, male and female, organized into families, embracing all the
relationships of husbands and wives, parents and children, where sorrow,
crying, pain, and death will be no more. Or to speak more definitely,
this earth, when glorified, is the Saint's eternal heaven. On it they
expect to live, with body parts, and holy passions: on it they expect
to move and have their being; to eat, drink, converse, worship, sing,
play on musical instruments, engage in joyful, innocent, social amusements,
visit neighboring towns and neighboring worlds: indeed, matter and it's
qualities and properties are the only being or things with which they
expect to associate.(Orson Pratt, Millenial Star, Vol. 28, p. 722, Nov. 17, 1866) |
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Revelation 12-22 |
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