Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Perhaps we need to be the spiritual "Electrical engineers" who apply the theory to practical applications. The ideas that we have been discussing this week are invisible (and by inference theoretical) and not relevant to the modern secular mind. The point is, that the abstract theory of pure mathematics has a very real and practical application. You might not be able to see it, but if you stick your fingers in a power socket, you will certainly experience it. Well, electrical engineers seem to think that imaginary numbers are just the trick needed to describe some of the issues of alternating current electricity. Why would you think up a whole mathematics based on imaginary numbers? Aren't there better things to do in life? Non-mathematical observers probably think that this is just evidence that mathematicians are a bit weird. We write equations with imaginary numbers, and solve them we draw diagrams to represent them (we even give them a name - Argand diagrams) we use them in trigonometry and calculus. Yet we have a whole branch of mathematics devoted to imaginary numbers. It's a bit like in mathematics, we have imaginary numbers which don't exist. Most of the things we have been discussing in the last couple of weeks are either taking place where we cannot see or are in the future, which of course we cannot see either. White, The Great Controversy, pages 660, 661. And Jude declares that ‘the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.’ Jude 6.” - Ellen G. Says Paul: ‘Know ye not that we shall judge angels?’ Verse 3. Satan also and evil angels are judged by Christ and His people. Then the portion which the wicked must suffer is meted out, according to their works and it is recorded against their names in the book of death. In union with Christ they judge the wicked, comparing their acts with the statute book, the Bible, and deciding every case according to the deeds done in the body. It is at this time that, as foretold by Paul, ‘the saints shall judge the world.’ 1 Corinthians 6:2. John in the Revelation says: ‘I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them.’ ‘They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.’ Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:6. At this time the righteous reign as kings and priests unto God. Daniel declares that when the Ancient of Days came, ‘judgment was given to the saints of the Most High.’ Daniel 7:22.
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