Truth7t7
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This existing heaven and earth will be dissolved by the Lords fire in Judgement, there will be a New Heaven and Earth as scripture clearly teachesThere is nothing to suggest that the earth itself will be destroyed at all. There is nothing wrong with the planet...it is only the disobedient and degraded human race that needs removing.
"And he did not refrain from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a flood upon a world of ungodly people." (2 Peter 2:5) The world of the ungodly will again be destroyed.
The "new heavens" is not a new Universe, because there is nothing wrong with the one that has existed since the beginning of material creation....the "new earth" is not a replacement for the one we have now. Like the earth of Noah's day, it was cleansed by God of wicked mankind, but the planet did not go anywhere.
Ecclesiastes 1:4..
"A generation is going, and a generation is coming,
But the earth remains forever."
(Psalm 78:69; Psalm 104:5)
Who said? Heaven is nothing like earth....the spirit realm is not a visible realm and those who have had visions of it were hard pressed to describe it in human terms.
The garden of Eden was a perfect paradise but the first humans, through disobedience, lost it. Jesus came to pay the debt that Adam left for his children, so that we could get back what he lost. Paradise will be right here on earth...the place where God put humans in the first place. This is where everlasting life was meant to be lived.
This is after seeing the 144,000 "bought from the earth as firstfruits" standing on the heavenly Mt Zion with the Lamb. (Revelation 14:1-5)
This "great multitude" are seen as survivors of "the great tribulation" and are also saved Christians. There are two groups...one resurrected to heaven to rule in God's Kingdom with his Christ....and those who will be their subjects on earth, when God restores his first purpose for humankind. (Isaiah 55:11) The earth is about to undergo another cleansing.
Not really a good translation. Other translations give a different meaning to the last part of that verse...
Instead of "burned up" they translate "disclosed"..."laid bare"..."found out"... ..."exposed"..."discovered". So, not a consensus on the meaning there.
Strongs gives the meaning of "heyriskō" as...
In the NT this word is invariably translated as "find" or "found" so "burned up" does not seem to fit here.
- to come upon, hit upon, to meet with
- after searching, to find a thing sought
- without previous search, to find (by chance), to fall in with
- those who come or return to a place
- to find by enquiry, thought, examination, scrutiny, observation, to find out by practice and experience
- to see, learn, discover, understand
- to be found i.e. to be seen, be present
- to be discovered, recognised, detected, to show one's self out, of one's character or state as found out by others (men, God, or both)
- to get knowledge of, come to know, God
- to find out for one's self, to acquire, get, obtain, procure
This would indicate that "the earth and its works will be discovered"...or disclosed...or found out.
No burning.
That's it? you have no idea what you will do in heaven? That indicates to me that you are not one of the elect. These know exactly what they have been chosen for.
Isaiah 24:19-20KJV
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Revelation 21:1KJV
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 Peter 3:10-13KJV
10 But 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.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking 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?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
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