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Song 220

Our Paradise: Present and Future

(2 Corinthians 12:4)

1. Wondrous Jehovah, God, we praise you

For our spir’tual paradise,

Where we by study, pray’r, and meetings

Get assistance to be wise.

O let us give thanks for

How greatly we’re blest

And how in your service

We have joy and rest!

True love for you and for our neighbor

Is the strongest bond of all.

How it unites us in your service

So that we may never fall!

2. Administration of your justice

You have given Christ the King.

At your right hand since his enthronement,

He rules over ev’rything.

We praise you, Jehovah,

For having made known

Your wonderful purpose

To gather your own.

O may our conduct e’er prove worthy

Of the good news that we preach,

So that at no time we will stumble

Sheeplike ones we seek to teach!

3. After the battle of the great day

Of Jehovah has been fought

And both the Devil and his demons

To the deep abyss are brought,

Then your ancient servants

From tombs will arise

To serve you with gladness

In earth’s Paradise.

They will help all men reach perfection

Through the priesthood of your Son;

Then here on earth, to time indef’nite,

Lasting joys from you will come.