…why would you expect heaven or the New Earth to be any better than what we have right now? Why would you pray saying, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done," if this is what heaven will be like?
Is it that God is just going to quit doing/causing evil when we are in heaven or in the New Earth?
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First, it helps to understand what "right now" is.
Right now is not a universe unto itself with all the wonders we think we know. No, right now, is a manifestation...a mere image of a reality we have yet to know. We, seemingly, are born into this image, as an author writes a character into a book. Not unlike that, this book, God's book, is already written. The timeline of this would-be history, no more exists than the timeline narrative of Tom Sawyer - it's just a story. In this story, history (His story) tells us of Him...and of us - we are characters in his story. But just as God has not told us that he "was" nor "will be", but has said "I am." We, too, simply "are"...and although He knows who we are...we don't - that is, not until He tells us, or until (as it were) we read the pages of our lives within the greater story. We are simply last to know, and have to walk it out, to live it.
So...the prayer...refers to you becoming who you are, you being happy with all the choices you have made and will make in your life...and then saying, "Amen" (or "Let it be so" - just as it is written in heaven...let it be so)...or "I am" (I am what I am), hallelujah!
And that's heaven.
PS, Alternatively, you come to the end of your life and find out you did not make good choices...and then there is
weeping and gnashing of teeth, etc..