We are told that as in Adam, the first man, all die. Think of it! Our first parents had fallen and had within them the seeds of death, as the children inherited the conditions of their parents, and do all things that we see around us. (The most familiar thing on earth is birth and death.) So in Christ, a resurrected being who, through knowledge, was able to lay his body down for us in death without a bone being broken, (but did not go to corruption) he took it up again: then he could more fully go on and obey the great divine command, “Multiply and replenish the earth,” or again reproduce himself and beget us, his own, into life, in another sphere, the celestial. We are only a family transplanted from another world to this terrestrial globe to gain knowledge and learn the whole law. If this is true of man, it is also true of everything connected with the earth, and even the earth itself, as it is to die or pass away, and then a new heaven and a new earth are to come forth from the ruins or elements of the old one, which is to be the home of those who have kept pace with it.