Understanding Paradise Earth

All of the debris & dead bodies from Armageddon will have to be cleaned up. 
Agriculture will have to be set up. 
Everyone is resurrected - good, bad, evil. Evil people will "need to learn to live by Jehovah's standards" Witnesses have to teach all the non-witnesses their doctrine.   

SO: there are evil people who can choose to still do evil for the 1000 years. Crime. Assault. Murder. How is that paradise? 

"In the new world, we will enjoy following direction from Jehovah’s organization to help make this earth into a beautiful paradise and help teach those who are resurrected. Jehovah will have much work for us. But what if those taking the lead asked us to do something that we do not really like? Would we obey? Would we do our best to fulfill and enjoy our assignment? To prepare for everlasting life in the new world, we need to obey the direction from Jehovah’s organization now.". 
WT Simplified Study, Aug 15, 2015

SO:
Still have to work: for the organization, build & grow my own food, all domestics, make my clothing, etc...
Have to do things that i don't want to do
Be assigned where to live, can't have the dream house i want

For at least a 1000 years. 

Might have to wait for my friends to be resurrected. Have to show patience. 
Jealousy, impatience, resentment & disobedience can still happen in Paradise? 
 

No marriage in paradise for resurrected. 
Awake! 1999 10/8 p.11 Crossword Puzzle
ts pp.178-180 For Whom Will Resurrection Bring Benefits? - 1974
Watchtower 1967 10/15 p. 638 Questions From Readers
So we will have physical bodies with normal sexual needs, but not be able to fullfill them without sinning. An eternity of sexual frustration. 
 

Kids shown in paradise images - do they age? If old people get young again.. is there a 'perfect' age that everyone settles on? 

Perfect, immortal bodies: so we can fall off a cliff & not die? Not feel pain? 

If everyone who is not a witness is resurrected in paradise for a second chance, then there's no need to become a witness now. If fact, isn't it better to not be a witness now because there's no threat of disfellowshipping, losing all social network or other controls? 

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Historical Chrisitian understanding: 
Paradise is in scripture 3x:
1) Rev 2:7 - the tree of life in the paradise of God. Where is the tree? in the city of God just down from his thrown (Rev 22:1-2)
2) 2 Cor 12:2-4 Paradise if God is in the 3rd heaven
3) Luke 23:43 - thief will be with Jesus in Heaven


Ecclesiastes 12:7 - the spirit will return to God who gave it
Acts 7:59 - "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit"
2 Cor 5:8 - to be absent from the body is to be at home with the Lord

There is a joining of heaven & earth - God is on the earth with us - that's why it's paradise. 
Rev 21:2 - 3  - Holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven; the tabernacle of God is AMONG the people & God himself dwell among them"
Rev 21:22 -23 - the city doesn't need the sun or moon for light because the glory of God lights it

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