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Declared Righteous as a Friend of GodThe Watchtower—1985 | December 1
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“Glorious Freedom” as “Children of God”
19. (a) What will occur immediately after the Millennium? (b) What will happen to those whose names are not found written in “the book of life”?
19 Immediately after the Millennium, Christ will hand over to his Father a perfect human race. (1 Corinthians 15:28) “Satan will be let loose” for a decisive test of mankind. (Revelation 20:7, 8) The names of any who fail under test will not be “found written in the book of life.” They will symbolically be “hurled into the lake of fire,” which “means the second death.”—Revelation 20:15; 21:8.
20. (a) Whom will Jehovah declare righteous for life, and why? (b) How will Jehovah’s merciful arrangement of justification have served its purpose?
20 Those who prove loyal to Jehovah will have their names indelibly written in the “book of life,” as being perfect in integrity and worthy of the right to everlasting life on earth. Jehovah himself will then declare them righteous in the complete sense. (Romans 8:33) They will have been justified to life eternal. God will adopt them as his earthly sons, and they will enter into the promised “glorious freedom of the children of God.” (Romans 8:20, 21)
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Declared Righteous as a Friend of GodThe Watchtower—1985 | December 1
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11. Whose names are written in Jehovah’s book of remembrance, and why?
11 The credit of relative righteousness to faithful men and women before Christ was a token of the real, or actual, righteousness and perfection associated with everlasting life that they may gain in God’s new earth. In view of their life prospects, they may be viewed as having their names written in a book of remembrance. (Compare Malachi 3:16; Exodus 32:32, 33.) It contains the names of those who are viewed by Jehovah as “righteous ones” who have demonstrated their faith by righteous works, and who are in line to receive everlasting life on earth.—Psalm 69:28; Habakkuk 2:4.
12. What will the “righteous” who are resurrected have to do to keep their names in Jehovah’s book of remembrance?
12 However, such names are not yet written in Jehovah’s “book of life.” (Revelation 20:15)
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Declared Righteous as a Friend of GodThe Watchtower—1985 | December 1
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17. (a) What is meant by “the curing of the nations”? (b) Who will need to have their names inscribed in “the book of life”?
17 During the Millennium, the enthroned Lamb, Christ Jesus, together with his 144,000 associate kings and priests, will apply a program of spiritual and physical “curing of the nations.” (Revelation 22:1, 2) Such “nations” will be made up of the survivors of the great tribulation, any children born to them after Har–Magedon, and those who come back in the “resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Acts 24:15) All who put faith in Christ’s blood and accomplish appropriate “deeds” will eventually have their names written in “the book of life.”—Revelation 20:11-15.
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