Truth7t7
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You run from the fact, John saw a new heaven and earth, a "New Creation", the first heaven and earth have passed away (Gone)Boy are you hard-headed! I've said that the dissolution of the elements is precisely what all fires do! Saying the elements are dissolved is nothing more than saying there will be fires all across the earth. The "earth" doesn't have to refer to the entire planet itself--it can also refer to the entire sphere of the earth, such as all the people or all the plants on it.
In this case, I view this as a generalization, that things across the earth are going to be burned--not that every plant and every person and the dirt itself is going to be dissolved into nothingness. As I keep saying, there are Scriptures indicating the present earth is "eternal." You just ignore that. Is that what you do with other Scriptures you don't like?
I don't really want you to get upset with me--I'm just giving you my opinions. You don't have to agree with it. But neither is it valuable to keep on asserting the same arguments without addressing the responses.
The Scriptures speak of the futility of storing up wealth on earth in view of the fact it is dissolved over time. Physical things break down, such as plants. And people themselves break down and die. It is futile to try to preserve our lives indefinitely.
But the " fire" that is coming to further dissolve things speaks of the judgment of God's wrath, which accompanies the Return of Christ. It amplifies what we already know about physical things, including our possessions. The melting of the very elements suggests not just the breaking down of plants, but more, even things we possess made of metal that we can't save.
So I do believe to say God is creating a "New Earth," when He's already said He created the earth to last forever, indicates poetically that a transition is happening. The old order of things is phasing out, punctuating by the fires of Armageddon, which I think is a world war setting on fire many cities across the earth.
The lesson is: get your things in order. You can't bring anything of this life with you to Heaven. An eternal Kingdom is coming to earth, and the old operating system is soon to be defunct. It has nothing to do with the death of a planet...in my opinion.
This earth will pass away, behold I make all things new
"A New Creation"
Revelation 21:1-5KJV
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 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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