The Eternal State

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•  The Lord will create a “new heavens and a new earth” wherein dwells righteousness. It will be a fixed state of things between God and man (2 Peter 3:12-13; Rev. 21:1-8; 1 Cor. 15:24-28; Lev. 23:36, 39–“the eighth day”).
•  Heaven and earth will exist in close harmony (Rev. 21:2). (The new heavens that will be made are not the heaven of heavens, the abode of God. The heaven of heavens does not undergo change because it is, and was, and always will be perfect.)
•  The Eternal State is also called “the Day of God,” “the Age of Ages,” and “the Day of Eternity.” (Rev. 21:1-8; 2 Peter 3:12; 1 Cor. 15:28; Eph. 3:21; 2 Peter 3:18)
•  In the Christian era, while the Lord is absent, righteousness is not upheld (Matt. 5:6), but in the Millennium righteousness will reign (Isa. 32:1). In the eternal state, righteousness will dwell (2 Peter 3:13).
•  The righteous earthly millennial saints will apparently be translated from the millennial earth to this new earth without seeing death.
•  Time distinctions, national distinctions, geographical boundaries and limitations as at the present will all disappear. It will be an entirely new order of life for man on the earth. There will be neither male nor female. No enemy, nor evil, will ever invade that scene of bliss.
•  There will be no need of a reign of righteousness in the Eternal State; there will be no evil to subdue. Everything will be ordered according to the holy mind of God. The heavenly saints will reign in government with the Lord in the Millennium, but that order of things only goes “to the age of ages” (Rev. 22:5–J. N. Darby Trans.).
•  There will be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain (1 Cor. 15:26; Rev. 21:4).
•  New Jerusalem will descend out of heaven to earth. It will be the city of the heavenly saints (Rev. 21:2-3).
•  God will be all and in all (1 Cor. 15:28)
•  In the end, there will be more persons in heaven and earth redeemed by God enjoying His favour and blessing, than those in the lake of fire under judgment.1 “In all things He (Christ) might have the preeminence.” (Compare Proverbs 27:20 with Luke 14:23; Colossians 1:18.)
 
1. This is not difficult to understand when we take into account the millions of children that have died in infancy, i.e. in the flood in Noah’s day, or even before they have been born (Matt. 18:10: 2 Sam. 12:23).