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New Heavens and New Earth
Wanda:
Genesis 8
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
This is God’s response after the Flood. I see it as the expression of his mercy, that even though there will still be evil in the world and in the hearts of people in the future, he promises he will not curse the entire earth, nor destroy every creature in it again. I can't believe this iis a comparison between methods of destruction. What kind of promise of mercy sounds like this: “I will never flood the earth again, but fire, yes, I will burn you up instead because of my great mercy for you!”?
ML:
Was thinking, even if there was no literal new universe, what if there were universal renovations and changes to things?
Also, was shown this before, at least in terms of elements. Maybe literal elements too:
Galatians 4
9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
2 Peter 3
10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Prune Soleiado:
Amen Wanda! What a great insight about Noah and the flood 👌
ML, I agree with you: great renovations, huge cleansing, letting go of the old and bringing out the new by changing habits and ways of treating the world around 👏
God Our Father, I pray it’s in Your Perfect Plan to enlighten us about these new Earth and Heavens, may it be the time for your children to learn more about it, for Your Glory in Christ only 🙏
Prune Soleiado:
« Therefore if any man be IN Christ, he is a new creature [creation]: old things are passed away; behold ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW" (II Cor. 5:17)
Parentheses and capital letters by L. Ray Smith , in Lake Of Fire Part XI.
Prune Soleiado:
I fell on this:
« Luk 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Luk 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.»
I see something like this: when Christ comes in us, then He starts to clean everything soiled inside our hearts, and of course it reverberates on our deeds, one of these being the simplest and obvious one: we clean our houses, we make things better and « garnish » our environment.
What if... we put it on the scale of humanity, the earth, the entire world 🤔 ?
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