Then will succeed the eternal state. This is recorded in Revelation 21:1-8. It will consist of two parts—the new heaven and new earth wherein righteousness will dwell (see verses 1-4), and the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone in which the unbeliever will have his part (see verse 8).
Revelation 20:11-15 gives us the last great session of judgment—the great white throne. Seeing the earth and the heaven will have fled away, there can be no more time, for these are marked by the two motions of the earth round the sun—its diurnal rotation on its axis giving the succession of night and day, and its orbit round the sun giving the seasonal successions and marking off year from year.
This gives the awfully solemn thought that the great white throne will be set up after time has ceased, and its judgment will be effected in eternity and for eternity.
The new heaven and earth will be the blissful side of the eternal state, where God shall dwell in complacency with His people—all the activities of time forever ended. “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” (1 Cor. 15:28).