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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 1, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 38.

3873 — Shall We Know Each Other?

In harmony with Eccl. 1:11 and Isa. 65:17, can we expect to recognize our children and friends in the new earth?

We see nothing in these scriptures to indicate to the contrary. The text in Ecclesiastes simply is speaking of the fashion of this world. Men forget all that has gone before. Simply the careless, selfish forgetter of this world is referred to, and Isa. 65:17 indicates that those who are saved in the kingdom of God shall not sorrow over the past, no matter what it may have been. God has dealt with it all right in every way. We are told this elsewhere,—that even the wicked shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God, and they themselves thrust out. Luke 13:28. And we read in 1 Cor. 13:12 of that blessed state, "For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known."