Heaven and the Angels by H A Baker

Author:H A Baker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Angelology & Demonology, Systematic, Christian Life, Religion, Inspirational, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780988570214
Publisher: GREAT PLAINS Press
Published: 2012-11-14T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XI

SAINTS SERVING IN HEAVEN

"His servants shall serve Him." 61 Saints in heaven are those who served the Lord upon earth. They served Him then in higher spheres, in higher service they minister to Him now. The greatest privilege of saints on earth or in heaven is to serve Him to whom they owe their all.

A "cloud of witnesses" were shown that all the redeemed in heaven are ever busy in happy service. While details of this service are not fully revealed, yet, for the encouragement of dwellers upon the earth, the Lord was pleased to make known some of the glorious ministry in which those who have gone on before us have a blessed part.

We have plenty of testimony that glorified saints from higher plains in heaven at times descend to help in the instruction of those on lower plains, and these, in turn, help on plains still lower. Thus there is a mutual system of cooperative instruction whereby those in advanced plains, mansions and temples of instruction help those below, the more advanced helping the less advanced throughout all the plains in the third and the second heaven. All is one great, inter-related co-operation, one great school of millions where all are teachers and all are pupils. Here every service is joyfully offered. Nor is there jealousy, or so much as an envious thought on the part of those in less advanced degrees of progress. Those below rejoice with joy unfeigned in every blessing experienced by the more advanced saints. They "rejoice with those who rejoice." On the other hand, every service is rendered in humble love and full-hearted thankfulness for being allowed to pass on to others blessings received there. Saints, like angels, are endued with life from the throne. By this life they are enabled to help develop in a larger measure those advancing to higher heights.

Not only do saints from higher plains have access to plains below them, but at times, for lessons in higher truth, those lower are led for short seasons to visit higher temples, higher mansions and higher plains above. This, we may suppose, is somewhat like a teacher with a class in a lower department of a factory. He might for a day take his pupils through the highly specialized departments of the factory to allow them to see the finished product, thus enabling them to get a more comprehensive grasp of the whole plan in which they are having, as yet, but a small part. At the same time, these pupils would necessarily have to return to their daily instruction, thence later to advance from department to department to the highly specialized department for

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permanent residence and instruction. From the new arrival whose work is of a lower grade to the most skilled expert in the highest department, each and everyone in the whole factory has his own individual work to do. All is necessary work. Not a man, or an item, could be spared in making the finished work, when assembled in the highest room, a perfect product.

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