We were created to work...It is not something that comes in just because of sin. There was work in the Garden of Eden. Adam had to work. He tilled the ground. He grew vegetables. He had to superintend the garden. We know nothing about what it is like to work without pain, without sorrow, without thorns and thistles, and without frustration and weeds. Work is part of creation. It is part of the new creation. There will be work in heaven to do. They will serve him night and day, the book of Revelation says in the closing chapter. There is work to do in heaven—glorious work, fulfilling work, exalting work.1
Derek W. H. Thomas
8 La seconde année depuis leur arrivée à la maison de Dieu à Jérusalem, au second mois, Zorobabel, fils de Schealthiel, Josué, fils de Jotsadak, avec le reste de leurs frères les sacrificateurs et les Lévites, et tous ceux qui étaient revenus de la captivité à Jérusalem, se mirent à l'œuvre et chargèrent les Lévites de vingt ans et au-dessus de surveiller les travaux de la maison de l'Eternel.