Purpose


The Discovering Heaven blog helps us discover more of what awaits us in Heaven, which strengthens our eternal perspectives. This increases your desire for Heaven while giving you the strength you need to make it through any trial you may face in this life.

If you are new, I suggest reading at least the first three entries before reading the more recent ones to understand the foundation for them.

Monday, May 31, 2021

New Heaven and New Earth

The last post talked about how Jesus’s resurrected body was a physical body you could touch just as ours will be when we are resurrected. Therefore, it makes sense that the New Heaven and New Earth will be a physical place on which these bodies will dwell.

Revelation tells us this current world will be replaced:

1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, …  3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. – Revelation 21:1,3

Christ came to earth to reconcile it, not to do away with it:

19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. – Colossians 1:19-20

Yes, this current earth will pass away, but it will be renewed or replaced with something better and eternal. Our future home would not be called New Earth unless it will have similarities to this current earth. There are things of great beauty here: sunsets, flowers, and love. Finding such beauty in a fallen and decaying world is encouraging because it seeds our imagination for what might await us in an eternal creation that is perfectly in tune with God with no corruption. The beauty we find there will be far beyond what we can see now.

What might God create there to delight us? The Apostle John speaks of being taken up on a high mountain as he watched New Jerusalem descend to New Earth (Rev 21:9-10). Which makes it seem we will have mountains on New Earth. And why not? Mountains are a beautiful display of God’s power and creativity.

If the New Earth will have mountains, what else do you think God may put there to display his creative powers and his love for beauty? Imagine what a world uncorrupted by sin and man’s selfishness could look like.

 

Romans 8:18-21; 1 Cor 15:53; Colossians 1:19-20; Revelation 21:1-3, 9-10


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