The Final Issues
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New Heavens
New Heavens
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
The first heavens and the first earth pass away
We are beyond the 1000 year reign
We are told in 2 Peter 3:10-13
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
The word “pass away” here means to “come to an end” or “to perish”
The earth is a temporal pass of existence, that is why the Christian is called to focus on the things above which are eternal in nature
Jesus told us that God’s Word would
For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
Though the earth itself will one day be dissolved, His Word remains the same!
Look at the description of the event
“a great noise; melt with fervent heat; burned up”
There is an interesting verse in Colossians
He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.
The Scripture tells us Christ is holding all things together - literally!
When God created the universe He violated on of the basic principles of Physics that is - like poles repel each other!
Columb’s Law states that, the force of attraction or repulsion acting along a straight line between two electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.
Simply put, opposites charges attract and like charges repel!
In all reality the universe should collapse in on itself yet there is something keeping it stable?
The atom bomb shows us the amount of power we are talking about
The nucleus of the atom is bombarded with slow moving neutrons as to upset the balance of the nucleus of the atom causing a tremendous release of power when the protons are set free
That means that there is something of greater power power holding it together!
God holds it to gether by the Power of His Word!
He just needs to let it go!
The universe will follow the natural laws! In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye!
“For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendants and your name remain.
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
The new Jerusalem coming down
Description is that it will be a cube in design and 1400 miles square
The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
In 21:16, the angel measures the city with a golden rod or reed, and records it as 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia at the base, and 12,000 stadia high. A stadion is usually stated as 185 meters, or 607 feet, so the base has dimensions of about 2220 km by 2220 km, or 1380 miles by 1380 miles.
Multiple that out and you have a staggering amount of space if looking at demential use of space!
The tabernacle of God is with men
It is the time where God will be physically or dimensionally with us in real form!
The former things will pass away and death and sickness defeated!
Remember that Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire? The last enemy to be destroyed!
REv 21:5
Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
Again God is reminding us that this isn’t just a dream, a fairy tale or wish,,,It is real!
For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory.
And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
Jesus said
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
Now He gives to the thirsty fountains of living water!
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
Jesus spoke about this day!
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
While the plan unfolds, we have been given the legal paperwork of our inheritance
That is why Peter asks, “if these things are so, what sort of people ought we to be?
But the warning!
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
We saw this last week!