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What Will Be the Home of the Saved?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 6, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 1.

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What Will Be the Home of the Saved?

By Chas. P. Whitford

CHAS. P. WHITFORD
WOULD you like an answer to the above question? The only way to get a correct answer is to turn to the Bible.
The thoughts of God are conveyed to us in words; therefore, if we are instructed by the Lord, it will be necessary for us to do what he tells us to do in 2 Tim. 2:7: “Consider what I say; and cause the Lord give thee understanding in all things.”
Let us turn to the Bible, then, and find what the Lord says concerning the future home of the saved. Jesus says: “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Matt. 5:5.
The psalmist says: “Those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.” Ps. 37:9. “The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever.” Ps. 37:29.
Truth is plain, simple, straightforward, and easy to be understood. Error is intricate, tortuous, winding, and hard to be understood. Do not the preceding scriptures make clear the future home of the saved?
But, says one, will not the wicked inherit the earth? Listen: “For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.” Ps. 37:10.
This scripture tells us there will be no place for the wicked. Since there will be no place for the wicked, what will become of them? Listen again: “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, . . . it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” Mal. 4:1.
The Bible tells us that “the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.” Prov. 2:21, 22.
In the beginning, the earth was given to man for his home, but man sold himself and his dominion to Satan. Ps. 115:16; Isa. 52:3.
“The Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10.
When sin and sinners are no more, Christ will give back the lost home to his people. “Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.” Ps. 37:34.
My dear friends, may it be our happy experience to dwell on the earth when it shall be occupied by all the redeemed.
Orlando, Fla.