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THE RESULTS
VII. 1'he Resiilts of the Return of our Lord Jesus as Regards the Physical Universe. The coming again of our Lord has results not only as regards man but as regards the physical universe as well. 1. In connection with Christ's coming again and as a result of it, THE CREATION ITSELF SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDA.GE OF CORRUPTION TO WHICH. IT IS NOW SUB.TECT INTO THE LIBERTY OF THE GLORY OF THE CHilr DREN OF GoD. Thorns and briars and carn age shall be no more. Even the wilderness and solitary place and the desert shall re joice and blossom as the rose. This is re vealed in both the Old Testament and the New. The Apostle Paul wrote in Rom. 8 :19-21, "For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bond age of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.'' Everywhere in nature now we find pain and suffering, disease and death._ Much of the music of the
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