Why did he say the following after what he said in verse 10 if verse 10 has zero to do with heaven and earth passing away?
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Why bring this up if it is not connected with anything he previously said? What's the logic in that if there is not even anything recorded in that chapter that supports why he needed to bring up the subject pertaining to a NHNE?
It's one thing to debate the timing of the heaven and earth passing away per verse 10, but it is not reasonable to deny that verse 10 is involving the heaven and earth passing away. And when it does pass away, unless there is something to replace it, we are pretty much stuck in limbo in the meantime, don't you think? If heaven and earth pass away at the 2nd coming, and that the millennium follows that, what earth would the millennium be involving since it can't be involving the earth that passed away, nor could it be involving the new earth if that can't even arrive until after the thousand years? Why wouldn't it simply be involving an earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, the fact that Christ and His saints would be ruling over the entire earth? Surely there couldn't still be crooked courts, crooked judges, etc, during the millennium.
What is the solution if one is a Premil like me who is convinced that heaven and earth pass away during the 2nd coming events? I can't join the Amil camp instead, if I'm not convinced Amil is the correct position. I can't agree with the majority of Premils that the NHNE doesn't begin until after the thousand years if I'm already convinced that heaven and earth pass away per the 2nd coming events.
The same question is asked about Isaiah 65:17.
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
Then it talks about Jerusalem, not the New Jerusalem.
"But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying."
This goes hand in hand with Zechariah 14
"For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city."
Is this a battle on earth against the New Jerusalem or current Jerusalem?
"And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."
It would seem that in both Isaiah and Zechariah, Jesus is creating current Jerusalem, and this is not talking about the New Jerusalem nor the NHNE.
Even that single verse in Matthew 24 is a contrast, not an explanation. What is the contrast? Is it between the physical and the promises Jesus made or just the same physical creation?
"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
Jesus promised this generation shall not pass away until. Then contrast heaven and earth with His words. Now we know from John 1 that even creation only exists because of the Word.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
So Jesus is saying that even though heaven and earth pass away, His promised Word cannot pass away even though creation comes from Him, and without Him nothing would exist.
You are taking that promise and turning it into a time stamp, which then makes you know something that cannot be known. Jesus is not saying when creation will cease. He is saying His Words cannot cease.
Now going on with the words Jesus gave us:
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
This is echoed by Peter in 2 Peter 3:5-7
"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
By the Word of God, that which cannot pass away, by God's Word there was a heaven and earth that passed away in the Flood. They did not cease to exist. They were forever changed. Peter said the old world perished, passed away. But the heavens and earth now are preserved until the Second Coming when this heaven passes away again, and the works on earth are burned up.
This passing away is the Second Coming per both Peter, Jesus, and John in Revelation 6 at the 6th Seal. But creation does not cease to exist. The same current Jerusalem we know today is recreated and totally different, but is still not the New Jerusalem nor the NHNE that come over a thousand years later.
Neither Isaiah 65 nor Zechariah 14 are talking about Revelation 21. They are referring to the opening of the 6th Seal. And the Trumpets and Thunders are part of Jesus restoring and creating heaven and earth new, without sin nor the bondage of the curse on creation. This final harvest and regeneration will be complete when the 7th Trumpet stops sounding.
The Day of the Lord is the part of 1 Corinthians 15:25-28 between the Second Coming and the end.
"For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 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. 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."
Death is destroyed when it is emptied out and cast into the LOF.