When God Makes All Things New

Revelation 21:1-8

In our last study of the Revelation, we witnessed the Great White Throne judgment of

lost sinners. We read about how everyone who refuses to come to Jesus for salvation

will one day face Him as their Judge. He will order them to be cast in the Lake of Fire,

where they will suffer eternally for their sins.

I praise the Lord that the book of Revelation does not end there! After that terrible time

of judgment our attention is drawn toward Heaven. We are allowed to get a glimpse of

the world that is waiting on us when time is finished and eternity begins.

When we begin to speak of eternal matters, we have entered a realm where we begin

to have problems. Our mortal minds cannot begin to comprehend an existence that is

eternal and perfect. We are so tied to time and so used to the problems of this life that

we cannot really even imagine what Heaven will be like. All we can do is read our

Bibles, believe the words they contain and rejoice in what awaits us, even though we

cannot possibly grasp it all now.

In our text, the veil between time and eternity is pulled back just a little. We are

allowed to look into our future in a place called Heaven.

There is a word in our text that is used four times. It is the word “new”. This word

means “recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn”. This passage speaks of

that time When God Makes All Things New. That is the thought I want to magnify

today as I share of the elements that God will make new in eternity.

I. There Will Be A New Creation (21:1)

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. (Revelation 21:1)

A. A Wrecked Creation Is Destroyed

This verse speaks of the day when this world and the atmosphere around it will be

done away with. This world has been stained by the blight of sin and the day is coming

when the Lord will do away with this world, Hebrews 1:10-12; 2 Peter 3:7-13.

This world is filled with explosive substances: nitrogen, hydrogen, sodium, etc. 2 Peter

3:10 – “elements” = “the basic building blocks of all matter; the building blocks of the

universe.” The smallest of those building blocks is the “atom”. Everything in the