“My Vineyard Will I Cause to Be Burned with Fire”
This is a reference to the cleansing and final celestialization of the earth, a time wherein the earth is purged of all that is of a lesser order than the very glory of God the Father. “And the end shall come, and the heaven and the earth shall be consumed and pass away, and there shall be a new heaven and a new earth- (D&C 29:23). ”There was a new earth and new heavens when the Millennium commenced. This is a second new heaven and new earth; it is the celestial earth and its heaven. The language in each instance is similar, but the meaning is different. In one instance the new earth is the paradisiacal [millennial] earth; in this case it is the celestial globe.“ Further,”whereas Christ the Son will grace the millennial earth with his presence, even God the Father will take up his abode, from time to time, on this earth in its celestial day.“ (Millennial Messiah, pp. 696, 699.)”
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