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The New World—Will You Be There?The Watchtower—2000 | April 15
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14, 15. Based on Isaiah 65:21, 22, to what rewarding activities can you look forward?
14 Instead of concentrating on how a willful sinner might be removed, Isaiah describes the living conditions that will prevail in the new world. Try to picture yourself in the scene. What might first come to your mind’s eye are things close to home. Isaiah treats that in Isa 65 verses 21 and 22: “They will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat their fruitage. They will not build and someone else have occupancy; they will not plant and someone else do the eating. For like the days of a tree will the days of my people be; and the work of their own hands my chosen ones will use to the full.”
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The New World—Will You Be There?The Watchtower—2000 | April 15
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16. Why can you expect the new world to be permanently satisfying?
16 More important than knowing such details is that you will have your own residence. It will be yours—not like today when you might slave to build but then another person benefits. Isaiah 65:21 also says that you will plant and eat the fruitage. Clearly, that summarizes the general situation. You will derive intense satisfaction from your efforts, the fruits of your own labors. You will be able to do that over a long life—“like the days of a tree.” That certainly meets the description “all things new”!—Psalm 92:12-14.
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