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he had felt no pain, only now did he sense he’d been fully healed. This was more than just the absence of pain. This was the presence of an intense vitality.
He saw trees that cast light instead of shadows. Some of them hung heavy with citrus fruits, picked and eaten freely by passersby.
This whole world had the feel of cool water on a blistering August afternoon.
“I know what this is,” Quan said. “Tell me,” the Carpenter said. “It’s the substance that casts all those shadows in the other world. The circles there are copies of the spheres here. The squares there are copies of the cubes here. The triangles there are copies of the pyramids here. Earth was a flatland. This is . . . well, the inside is bigger than the outside, isn’t it? How many dimensions are there?” “Far more than you have seen yet,” the King said, laughing.
It is finished. Paid in full. All that remains, before the great adventure begins, is to turn the fallen world right side up and make it the glorious place I have planned it to be.”
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
“You have given what you could not keep to gain what you cannot lose.
And this, Quan, is the first of our kind. Our brother Stephen.”
“You’re not my only audience,” Ben said. “God is watching me. And he sees everything, including a lot that you don’t.” “Yeah? Well, we’re the ones who pay your salary.” “Real gold fears no fire,” Ben said.
“My message title is ‘Worshiping a God Who Doesn’t Do What We Want Him To.’ Please turn in your Bibles to the book of Habakkuk.”
Once they had resurrection bodies and dwelt on the new earth, Li Tong kept insisting, everything would be far better.
A tormented earth exacted revenge on the fallen stewards who had caused its ruin. The world heaved and moaned in destruction—or was it rebirth?
The hope of reward that kept the sufferers sane was vindicated at last.
Michael picked up his evil twin and cast the writhing beast into a great pit.
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And the King will tell them, “I assure you, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!” (Matthew 25:40, NLT)
