2098.—Remembering the Former Things.
By Editor
I heard a man say that if he were in heaven and knew that any of his children were in torment, that heaven would be nothing to him. Please say if the Bible does not say that there will be no remembrance of such things in heaven. When we come to a right understanding of the word of God we will have no grounds for such statements as the above. When God's children are enjoying the glories of eternal life there will be no place somewhere else in the universe where people are writhing in torment. It will be seen in the judgment that every one has just what he has chosen, that the fruits he has reaped are the fruit of his own sowing; so those who have chosen righteousness have reaped eternal life; those who have chosen sin have reaped eternal death; and in that will be seen so clearly not only the justice, but the mercy of God; more as the prophet expresses it in Isa. 65:17, "The former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind," or, as the margin reads, "come upon the heart."