In OUR STRATEGY FOR HEAVEN’S HAPPINESS, Doctor Freefall’s twisted tactics aim to transform heavenly happiness into skepticism and disillusionment. Freefall advises his eager apprentice Slidefoot on how to undermine the hope of heaven by questioning divine love, highlighting earthly suffering, and making the pursuit of heavenly joy seem foolish.
By contrast, Jonathan Edwards was confident that,
God doubtless will entertain his saints according to the state of the king when he comes to entertain ’em at the feast that he has provided with such great contrivance, and wonderful and amazing exercises of infinite and mysterious wisdom, showing the bottomless depths and infinite riches of his wisdom, and with such great and mighty ado, and innumerable and wonderful exercises of his power, having to provide this feast created heaven and earth, and done all in all ages, bringing such great revolutions in such an amazing wonderful series; and besides that come down him [self] from his infinite height and become man, and also provided the feast at such infinite expense as that of his own blood. We read of Ahasuerus, a great king, when “he made a feast unto all his princes and servants, he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty, and gave drink in vessels of gold and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king” (Esther 1:3–7). So doubtless the happiness of the saints in heaven shall be so great that the very majesty of God shall be exceedingly shown, in the greatness and magnificence and fullness of their entertainment and delights. - “Miscellanies,” no. 934 in WJE 20:189.
