(chart 32)

THE STATE OF MAN AFTER DEATH IN THE SEVENTH ORDER

1. UNREDEEMED MAN

SEVENTH ORDER: At the very beginning of this order, all of the unredeemed of all ages, from Adam through the end of the 1000 year millennium, will be taken from Hades where they have been being kept awaiting their final judgment to stand before the great white throne of God. Each one will be resurrected and given a physical body so that he may be judged in the state in which he lived. Each one will be judged fairly, according to what he had done while in his human form. Each will be given the death penalty, meaning that he will be thrown into the lake of fire and his second body will be consumed. This is called the second death. His spirit may live on in outer darkness, away from the light of Jesus and God forever. The limit and extent of his punishment will vary according to what he deserves. Paul says in Rom 3:22-26 that God left the sins of those living before Jesus unpunished to demonstrate his justice. Their sins will not be punished but only those who knew and followed Jesus will be allowed to spend eternity with God in the new Jerusalem.

2. REDEEMED MAN

SEVENTH ORDER: This order starts after the judgments at the end of the millennium and lasts through all of eternity. All believers will be in their glorified bodies. They will live with the Father, Jesus and the Spirit through all of eternity. They will live in a unified multi-dimensional earth and heaven. This represents the second and final phase of the removal of the barrier between heaven and earth. Things will be very different as there will never again be humans, sin, deceit, selfishness, pain, suffering, death, hunger, thirst, etc. Every need will be met by God. This place will be inhabited only by those who were believers in and followers of Jesus in their prior human form. It will be a place of eternal bliss as believer’s fellowship with God and with each other forever. The experience of worship of God, fellowship, music, food, drink, learning, work, play, etc. will be unbelievably fulfilling.

THOUGHTS ON THE NEW JERUSALEM, THE NEW ORDER AND BEING “ONE”

Could it be that the picture we see of the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God has two fulfillments to it? The first would be when the bride comes down out of heaven with Jesus at the Second Coming. This would have to be a spiritual city in a spiritual dimension. It may be the dwelling place for the bride during the millennium as the redeemed go back and forth between the spiritual city and the physical earth as needed to do the biding of Jesus as we reign with him. This city would be invisible to humans living on earth just as God, his angels, and things in the heavenly dimension are currently invisible to us. The second fulfillment would be in the seventh order when the distinction between the physical and spiritual dimension is removed, when earth again becomes a part of heaven. This calls for a large change as everything is made new, Rev 21:5; returned to its second order form. This return is a really drastic change; a reversal of the change that occurred in going from the second to the third order. Recall that in the seventh order there are no longer humans in the universe as all believers are now in their glorified bodies living with God and all unbelievers and evil angels are either in the lake of fire or outer darkness.

Also, might we think of the new Jerusalem as a huge condominium complex where the bride will live forever with God? Let me explain what I am thinking. First let me state some interesting information from Rev 21:16-17 about the new Jerusalem.

• The city is likely a vast cube, although it could be a pyramid. The city is 12,000 stadia in length, width and height. That is 7,200,000 feet or 1363 miles, assuming one stadia is 600 feet.
• The walls of the city are 144 cubits or 216 ft thick, assuming one cubit is 18 inches. In ancient walled cities rooms were sometimes built within the walls.
• If the city is a cube and rooms are built within the walls of the new Jerusalem with each room being a cube 216 x 216 x 216 feet, then each wall would be 33,333 rooms long and 33,333 rooms high. Thus there would be 1,111,111,000 rooms in each wall. Quite a heavenly condominium complex I would say.

As believers, we will one day be living in this city and possibly in these rooms. Remember Jesus words in John 14:1-4, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go there to prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you may also be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” It certainly seems that all of these scriptures in John and Revelation are talking about the same place and same theology. The place where God lives has many rooms and thus the new Jerusalem must have many rooms, since Rev 21:3 says that God will live with man in this new Jerusalem.

The calculation of the possible number of rooms that might be in one of the city walls, 1,111,111,000, leads me to wonder if all of these ones have anything to do with the words Jesus spoke in his high, holy prayer in John 17. The Bible is full of interesting mathematical gems. That is one of the ways that God used to prove to us that the Bible is a supernatural Book and that he is the one and only God of the universe. We will next look at some very interesting speculative ties between John 17 and Rev 21-22 and see if we can gain a better understanding of what it means to be “one.”

ANALYSIS OF CLUES THAT HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ONE”

Chapters 12 through 17 of the gospel of John all take place in the week of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.  These chapters are composed primarily of the words of Jesus as he was teaching the disciples. Because of his imminent death and resurrection, Jesus’ theme in much of this dialogue dealt with new concepts that he had only touched lightly upon before this time. The concepts were very complex and the disciples had trouble understanding them. In fact, Jesus told them that they would not really understand what he was describing to them until he returns at the rapture, “in that day.” Apparently they will need to be in their glorified bodies before they can really conceive of what Jesus was telling them. We may be able to understand better today because of recent discoveries in the world of physics. Daniel was told that his end time prophecies would be sealed up until near the end when there would be a knowledge explosion. The interpretation that I am making here is possible because of that explosion. Jesus was using very figurative language in this dialogue in John 12-17. The concepts that Jesus was presenting include:

1. What it means to receive glory or be glorified. There are two different Greek words being used here by Jesus involving glory and they can mean, among other things, (1) to receive or be clothed in honor, praise, splendor and esteem, and (2) the resurrected, unified nature of Jesus and the nature of believers in heaven after the rapture. The word glory may refer to the glorified body that Jesus received at his resurrection and that believers will receive at the rapture. This refers to the very nature or image of God, and therefore to man since he was created in the image of God. Man originally had this image but lost it when he was kicked out of the Garden of Eden. This nature may be restored to man at the rapture.
2. How receiving “the glory” enables man to be “one,” as Jesus and the Father are one. The glory apparently refers to the resurrected, glorified bodies that believers receive at the rapture. What is the nature of this glorified body? It is a unified spirit and body. It is in the very image of God. Jesus prays in John 17:23 that believers one day be “unified.” What does this glorified body enable a believer to do? He can experience both heaven and earth. After the start of the seventh order he will be able to experience both at the same time in all of their fullness. Why is this referred to as being “one?” It may be because the spirit and body are now unified or united as a single entity. The conscious and subconscious are now united. The heart and mind are united as one. Glorified man has only one mind, and it is infinitely more powerful than his old human mind. Another reason it may be referred to as “one” is because heaven and earth will be one again in the new order. In this image or nature man will be able to live in all of the dimensions of the universe at the same time, just as God can do. He will be able to be a part of the oneness of heaven and earth. He will become one as God is one. Man will not and can never become God, but according to John 17 he can become “one.”
3. What it means for the Father to be in Jesus, Jesus to be in the Father, both to be in believers and believers to be in both of them, all at the same time. In this dialogue in John 12-17 Jesus has said several times that he would send his Spirit to be in believers after he returned to heaven. He also said he would ask the Father to send his Spirit to be with believers. Jesus explains part of what it means for the Father to be in him in John 14:9-12. He said that the Father was doing his work on earth through him, and that the words that he was speaking were partly his and partly being given to him by the Father. It seems that when Jesus was on earth the Father was speaking to him through the Spirit. 1 Cor 2:11 says that nobody knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Verse 16 then says that believers have the mind of Christ. We have the mind of Christ because we have the thoughts of Jesus within us as provided to us by Jesus’ Spirit that is within us. We can thus conclude that Jesus is in the Father because Jesus’ Spirit is within the Father, that the Father is within Jesus because his Spirit is within Jesus, that the Father and Jesus are within us because their Spirit is within us, and that after the rapture we will be within the Father and within Jesus because our spirit will be within them. We will be “one” because we are united in some way through the Spirit being in each of us.
4. What it means to be with Jesus and see his honor and majesty in the place he lives. Jesus prayed to the Father in the week before his death that it would be possible for believers to one day be able to join him in heaven. Jesus asked the Father to sanctify believers by the truth. Jesus said that his sanctification, his death and resurrection, would make it possible for believers to also be sanctified. This sanctification would be for those who believe the truth and accept it. Jesus says that he is the truth and that he is the only way to heaven. Jesus further said that he was going to his Father’s house in heaven to prepare a place for believers. He said this house had many rooms in it.

All of these concepts are tied together very closely. Once we receive our glorified bodies at the rapture we will (1) become one in that our spirit and body as well as our conscious and subconscious minds will be united, (2) be united with Jesus and the Father is some way through the Spirit in that they will live in us and we will live with them, as our thoughts are shared, (3) live with the Father and Jesus in the place they live, in the unified heaven and earth.

All of these thoughts were shared with John the Apostle directly by Jesus. John recorded them in his gospel in chapters 12-17. Jesus also shared similar thoughts with John in Revelation chapters 21 and 22. He carried them a little further and explained them a bit more in Revelation. Just as he had in his dialogue with the apostles as recorded in John chapters 12 to 17, Jesus used very figurative language in Revelation. We will next go through a verse by verse study of the words of Jesus on these topics in John chapters 12-17, with a couple of earlier references from John. After going through these verses in John we will return to Revelation chapters 21 and 22 to wrap up our thoughts. Our hope is that further studying these verses will aid in our understanding.

John 10:27-30 – Jesus says “I and the Father are one.” This is associated with giving eternal life to believers.

John 10:34-39 – Jesus says “The Father is in me, and I in the Father.” He says this when he is trying to convince the Pharisees that he is God. He says that he is of the same essence as God, the Son of God, and that he does the same types of things that the Father does, namely perform miracles.

John 11:40 – Jesus says, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God.” He said this to Martha in connection with the raising of Lazarus from the dead. The word glory refers to the resurrected, united, glorified nature of Jesus as God. As such, he can perform miracles including raising the dead.

John 12:23-26 – Jesus says, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, my servants also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” Jesus is saying that he will be the first to be glorified and after him those who follow him will also be glorified. Jesus is saying that his death will make it possible for those who follow him to also be glorified. That includes being honored and valued by God in heaven, as well as being placed in his image once more.

John 12:41 – “Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.” In Isaiah 53 Isaiah wrote about the death, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus in more detail than is given in even the New Testament. The glory being spoken of may refer to the nature that Jesus assumed after his resurrection.

John 13:36 – Jesus said just before going to the garden, “Where I am going you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”At the time Jesus said this nobody could go to heaven, the place where Jesus was going. However, after his death and resurrection believers spirits could go to heaven, It would be later, at the rapture, before believers could go to heaven in body, a resurrected and glorified body.

John 14:3-4, 6-7, 9-11 – Jesus says, “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. I will come back and take you to be with me that you may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Philip responds that he did not know the way. Jesus then makes the way to heaven very clear as he says in verse 6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” Jesus further explains this to Philip in verses 9-11, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe the evidence of the miracles themselves.” Jesus will later explain a bit more clearly what it means for him to be in the Father and the Father to be in him.

John 14:16-20 – Jesus further tells his disciples that he would ask the Father to send another Counselor to forever be with those who love him, “the Spirit of truth.” Jesus explains that the world would not accept the Spirit, because they could not see him or know him. However believers would know him because “he lives with you, and will be in you.” Jesus further tells them, I will come to you,” obviously meaning through his Spirit being in them. Jesus continues, “Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.” Jesus seems to be saying that after death unbelievers will go to Hades and will never see him again. However, believers will see him as soon as they die because their spirits will go to heaven where Jesus lives. Jesus then clarifies when the disciples would finally understand much about what he was talking about; it would be “on that day.” This is referring to the rapture. It will be at the rapture when they finally receive their glorified bodies and become “one” with Jesus. Jesus said it would be then that they would realize that, “I am in the Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” Jesus repeats this in John 16:10, “I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer.” When Jesus said Because I live, you also will live, he further meant that his coming death and resurrected back to life in a glorified body would make it possible for believers to do the same, to die and one day be resurrected back to life and join him in heaven. If he had not been resurrected back to life as firstfruits, there would not ever be a soul harvest, 1 Cor 15:12-23.

John 14:23-25 –Here Jesus explains more about what it means to be a believer and have eternal life, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me, will not obey my teaching.” Jesus then repeats that the Father would send the Holy Spirit in his name as Counselor and teacher. Jesus expands on this in John 16:13-14 when he says that the Spirit would tell them what was yet to come, and would bring honor to Jesus by taking from what was his and making it known to them.

John 16:23 – Here Jesus says, “In that day you will no longer ask me anything.” This may help explain what it means for us to be in Jesus, for Jesus to be in the Father, and for the Father to be in us, etc. It may also tell us something about what it means to be “one.” This statement may mean that we will know the answers to all of our questions because in some way we are sharing God’s knowledge; he is connected to our mind and we are connected to his. 1 Cor 2:11 and 16 may help explain this. Verse 16 says that we have the mind of Jesus. Verse 11 says nobody knows the thoughts of God except for the Spirit of God. Since we have the Spirit of God living within us as believers, we can know the thoughts of God through his Spirit living in us. In John 16:15 Jesus says, “All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.” The disciples answer in John 16:30 may give us another angle on this, “Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not need to have anyone ask you questions.” The reason that we may not need to ask him questions is that he knows our questions before we even ask them and in that day he will answer them even before we can ask them. We will know without having to ask.

John 17 and Rev 21-22 - In John 17:11 Jesus is praying to the Father for protection for his eleven faithful disciples “so that they may be one as we are one.” In verse 15 Jesus clarifies this request, “protect them from the evil one.” I suspect that this is a request that the Father give them strength to resist Satan and his evil lies so that they will not fall away from him. Rev 21:7 says that he who overcomes will inherit the new Jerusalem and be with God. We are all tempted and must overcome Satan and his lies and remain in Jesus in order to inherit eternal life, 1 Cor 15:1-2, Jn 3:36, 1 Jn 5:5, Rev 2:7, 3:5, 3:12. Jesus continues in verse 17 as he asks God to “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” To sanctify them by the word is to make them holy or to purify them by the word. This would enable them to be able to join Jesus in heaven one day. Jesus continues in verse 17 to say that he was sanctifying himself so that they also could be sanctified. This must be referring to his soon to come death as a sacrifice for them to enable them to join him in heaven. This would enable them to get by the barrier that had been erected between earth and heaven in Gen 3:24. This barrier was described as a flaming sword, representing purification by the word. This barrier had been set up at the time that man was kicked out of the Garden of Eden (the heavenly dimension of the garden, Ezek 28:13) and is still in place today. Fire purifies (Matt 3:11, Mk 9:49, Acts 2:3, Rev 3:18) and the sword is the word of God (Eph 6:17), of Jesus. Jesus is the Word, John 1:1-2; it is only through him that we can get to that place. Jesus sacrifice made it possible for the spirit of believing man to be able to go to heaven at his death. That barrier, the flaming sword keeps man from ever having a chance to get to heaven on his own. Man can only get to heaven , get past the barrier, by going through Jesus; by being purified by accepting his gospel, his sacrifice. This same thought is repeated again by Jesus in Rev 22:14 as he says, “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” The robe of righteousness is associated with the garment of salvation that adorns the bride in Isa 61:10. To enter that heavenly city where the tree of life is located, where the Garden of Eden is located, we must be saved by being made righteous through accepting the act of Jesus washing us clean with his blood.

As Jesus continues his prayer in John 17 he next adds the same request that he made for his apostles for all of those who will become believers in him through the message of the apostles. In verses 20-23 Jesus says, “I pray for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may know that you sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory.” Jesus wants those who believe in him to one day be able to live in the same place where he and the Father live, a place where the whole universe is unified as one, that believers might become one even as they are one. Jesus and the Father are one in several possible ways including,

1. In their basic spiritual nature they are “one” in that they can experience the whole of the universe at the same time, all of the dimensions and wonders of that place. Jesus wants us to have this same basic nature. Not that we will become God, for we certainly will not, but that our very nature will be changed to allow us to share the universe with them, to be with them where they are, in a unified heaven and earth.
2. They share the same “glory.” This seems to be an extension of 1 above. An interesting and insightful similarity of the language used in John 17 and Rev 21 concerning the redeemed bride of Christ concerns the use of the word “glory.” In Rev 21:11 we see that the bride, the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth “shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.” In John 17:22 Jesus says “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one.” The word “glory” may mean “the state or appearance of Jesus or the redeemed believers after their resurrection.” In John 17:22 Jesus seems to be saying that he was bestowing on his future bride the right to the same kind of glorified, resurrected body that he would have. He is also saying that this glorified body would enable them to be one even as he and the Father are one. Rev 21:11 is a picture of the bride, the collective body of believers, coming down from heaven to earth in their glorified bodies.
3. They share the Spirit. In John 16:7 Jesus says that when he returns to heaven he will send the Counselor, the Spirit, to be with believers. In verses 14-15 he adds, “He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.” The Spirit is thus making things known to us that are in the secret world of the Father and Son. This may tie into Paul’s teaching from 1 Cor 2:11-12, 16, that we might have the mind of Christ. This might imply that in the unified heaven and earth we will be able to know and share the innermost thoughts of God and our fellow redeemed. That can work because we no longer will have a sin nature. This may explain how we can live in God and he can live in us at the same time, as Jesus seemed to be praying in John 17. We will also have their Spirit living in us to tie our very thoughts to their thoughts. In John 14:26 Jesus tells his disciples that the Father will send the Spirit to them and he will “teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:17-18 says that the Spirit is in us and that Jesus is in us. Since the Spirit is the only one who knows the thoughts of God, we may be seeing that Jesus and the Father live in us through the Spirit being in us. It may be that the Spirit is the means by which believers live in God and God lives in them. The Spirit may provide the unity between God and man.

I have spent countless hours pondering John 17 and attempting to understand what Jesus might mean when he says that he and the Father are “one” and he also wants us to be “one” with them. Likewise, I have pondered the meaning of much of what is in Rev 21 and 22. I did not receive the insights that I have been discussing here until after I completed nearly four years and about 3000 hours studying and teaching Revelation. The amazing thing to me is that I was not looking for or expecting this insight. Jesus promised us a blessing if we dwell on Revelation. This promise is at the beginning and the end of Revelation. The insights that I have been discussing here in this section may well be my blessing. If so, it far exceeds anything that I would expect or feel I deserve.

Man will not be able to join God in the unified heaven and earth that we have been discussing until the seventh order, when there is a new order and everything has been renewed, Rev 21:3-5. The words in Rev 21:3-5 can only be understood in light of what we were told in Gen 3:24. Also, what we were told in the very beginning of the Bible can only be truly understood in light of what we were told at the end of the Bible. In the very next verse, Rev 21:5 Jesus says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. Jesus was there at the beginning and he will be there at the end. He created everything in the beginning, Col 1:15-18 and he will renew everything at the end, Rev 21:5-6, 22:12-13. He was the tree of life, the only one who can provide eternal life, in the beginning, Gen 3:22, and the tree of life in the end, Rev 22:2.

So, we see that the beginning of Genesis and the end of Revelation complement each other. These are the only places in the Bible where heaven and earth are one; they are in unity, a united multi-dimensional place shared by both purified man (he has gone through the flaming sword) and God. The only way we can get to that unified place is by going through the flaming sword. The end can only be understood in light of the beginning and the beginning can only be understood in light of the end. Jesus is that light and he provides that light to us. Jesus is the Light, Rev 22:22-24, John 1:1-8. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last!! Amen!!

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS CONCERNING WHAT IT MEANS TO BECOME ONE

It certainly seems to me that Revelation 21-22 and John 12-17 are connected very closely in meaning. John wrote them both under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It is impossible to fully understand either without understanding the other. They must be studied together to get the full understanding of what we are being told. Both largely relate to what is in the future for believers, after we have received our glorified bodies and are in the presence of God forever. Following are some of the thoughts expressed in these chapters in John and Revelation that tie them together and without which neither can be fully understood.

1. He who overcomes, is a believer to the end, will inherit the new Jerusalem and live with God forever. Those who are not believers, do not know Jesus, will not be in the city of light. They will be in blackest darkness, far away from God and his people forever.
2. Jesus said that when he returned to heaven he would ask the Father to send the Counselor, the Spirit of truth, to be with and live within believers. He said that both he and the Father would then live within believers. Jesus lives within the Father and the Father lives within Jesus through the Spirit being within both of them. It is also through the Spirit that they live within us. However as we will see below, we will not be able to live within them until we receive our glorified bodies. Our current basic nature does not permit it.
3. Jesus prayed “That all believers may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us.”
4. Jesus prayed the following, “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me.” The glory here likely refers to the glorified body.
5. Jesus prayed the following, “May they be brought into complete unity.”
6. Jesus prayed. “Father I want those you have given me to be with me where I am.”
7. Believers are the bride of Christ and are referred to as the new Jerusalem after the final judgments. Jesus, the Spirit and the Father all live within the bride in eternity. The bride also lives within God.
8. Jesus will renew everything after the final judgments. There will be a new form of heaven and earth, a new order, as the old order of things has passed away.

What does it mean to be “one.” The third and fourth points seem to define what it means to be one, namely, two or more persons living within each other. From the fourth point we see what makes this possible for believers, namely that they have glorified bodies. Once believers have their glorified bodies they again assume their original nature as they will once again be in God’s image. As stated in the fifth point they will be in complete unity, meaning that in their new nature they will again be able to participate in the newly reunited heaven and earth, just as they could do in the garden of God before they fell into sin and lost their unity. They will live with God and he will live with them, all in the new Jerusalem. God will also be within them and they will be within God as the Spirit of God is in each of them in the new order.

How do we put all of this together so that we may understand it? What does all of this symbolic language really mean? This is my take on it. God will live in the city, the new Jerusalem, with believers of all ages for all of eternity. In that city and at that time, as redeemed believers in glorified bodies, we will have the nature of God in that we will be able to live in and enjoy the reunified heaven and earth. We will live in both heaven and earth at the same time. Heaven, in all of its glorious splendor, will be fully opened up to us again. We will be able to partake of the fruits of earth and the fruits of heaven along with Jesus, the Father and the Spirit. We will enjoy a very special relationship with God throughout eternity as we are connected to the Father and the Son through the Spirit. The Spirit will be in us and in them. In our glorified body, the conscious and subconscious mind will be united, made one, just as is the case with God. God will know our thoughts even before we express them and will meet our every need. We will know the desires of God for us and will always be ready to answer his call. For the first time it will be possible to share true and total love with God and with each other. The relationship will be one of perfect truth, perfect trust and perfect unity of purpose. There will be no tears, no hurt, no unfulfilled needs or desires. Oh what a day, glorious day, that will be! One day we will be one.