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New Heavens and New Earth
indianabob:
Hi Mark,
Regarding our future here on the planet earth.
A plausible story that I have believed for quite a while is as follows.
Jesus the Christ returns at the appointed time and takes control of world government.
Whomever is left alive on the earth continues living their life span as the earth is renewed.
A human government may exist but Satan will be put away and not be able to influence mankind.
After an age of perhaps 1000 years with Christ ruling in peace and the results of that rule having
provided a large population to grow and prosper, Satan will be loosed once more to test the whole world and from then the story is not clear.
In any case Christ will eventually put down all sin and even death and then will turn the whole system over to his father and father God will make His home with us here on a NEW earth. So If God is going to be here and we are all going to be immortal (spiritual) then the future earth can be quite a bit different than it is today. e.g. no more volcanoes or storm etc. and we won't ever die so there needs to be lots of fruitful challenges and opportunities that God will provide.
Let your imagination explore that scenario... :)
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1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Dave in Tenn:
Imagination may or may not be a peacable exercise, but remember what Paul wrote:. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the mind of man what glories await...
Wanda:
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--- Quote from: Rick Longva on August 19, 2018, 07:43:50 PM ---I don't believe it will be obliterated and a new Earth and heavens created. I was just wondering if Ray, or anyone here had any thoughts about that. Thanks for the reply.
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Hi Rick. It appears to me that this is a problematic issue with regard to those who believe in universal reconciliation. I personally believe that all life on earth will be destroyed at the end of this, current age. Jesus said that it will be just as in the days of Noah, and Peter makes it quite clear that destruction by fire will ensue in this coming judgement. I understand that many things need to be understood in spiritual terms rather than literal but, while I firmly believe that all will ultimately be happily reconciled to God, I read this end time event as destruction by some form of literal fire.
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Silly me, thinking when I found Universal Reconciliation I was free of that wrathful God of fire and destruction. I should have known it was to good to be true. ;)
1 Corinthians 2
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of theLord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Prune Soleiado:
Those litteral Earth and Heavens are already sooo beautiful and perfect... I wish it remains « eternally »... What if these new Earth and new Heavens were the same we know right now, but with a paramount change: a change in humanity’s heart caused by God’s salvation? What if men and women deeply transformed by God’s Love and Glory start to take care of this earth? From my point of view: ever since God entered my life, I see my environment differently, even an ant I don’t want to kill from now on, for I see God’s work through it.. Not an ecological act, rather a way to glorify Our Father in Heaven by paying respect to the nature He created through Our Lord Jesus Christ. What a great world it would be, even if litteral.. No more economic profits, no more fights over resources.. Sharing, giving, enjoying it all together without any desire to earn anything but to glorify God, thanks to these new Heavens God would place into a new humanity’s heart.. Imagination, uhh?.. 😉
Wanda:
Thank you Michele and Amen to all you said☺
Thank you Lord for all your magnificent ways and perfect wisdom.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My Statutes, and ye shall keep My Judgments, and do them... Without Me ye can do nothing"
(Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 15:5).
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