The New Earth

From: Eternal Glory By: Clarence E. Lunden

• 3 min. read • grade level: 9

In keeping with this mighty change, there will be a cleansed earth, everything new, in which righteousness will dwell. 2 Peter 3:13¹³Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13). Rev. 21:5⁵And 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. (Revelation 21:5).

The angels (sons of God) shouted for joy, while the morning stars sang together, at the creation of the first earth (Job 38:7⁷When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Job 38:7)), and the people of God will rejoice at the creation of the new earth. Psa. 146-150. There will be no more sea (Rev. 21:1¹And 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. (Revelation 21:1)), no longer a separation among men or divison of nations as at the present time, for there will be no nations.

The tabernacle of God, the Church, will come down to the new earth from heaven (Rev. 21:3³And 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. (Revelation 21:3)), and the presence of God, the omnipresent God, will be known and felt throughout the creation.

In our meditations on the millennial heaven, in Rev. 21:9,10⁹And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. ¹⁰And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, (Revelation 21:9‑10), we saw the bride descending over the earth. One thousand years later she is still as a bride adorned for her husband, "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." Rev. 21:2²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:2).

Myriads born on the millennial earth will be alive at the end of the thousand years because there will be no death for the believer in the millennial day, and all resurrection will be past. Who could estimate the innumerable multitude who will be living at the end of the first earth to people the new earth! The new earth will be of God and will suit the new manner of life of its inhabitants. They will be God's people, and He will be their God. Rev. 21:3³And 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. (Revelation 21:3).

This in itself will bring glory to a faithful Creator God. What a display of wisdom, knowledge, love, and power will pass before our eyes in that glorious day! What an earthly paradise!

Communion between heaven and earth, the eternal home of these people of God, will be constant. Hos. 2:21-23²¹And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; ²²And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. ²³And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. (Hosea 2:21‑23). The day of silence and mystery will be over, as mutual knowledge of others and their appointed places will be current. All terrestrial kingdoms will have been dissolved.

When we read in 1 Cor. 15:24²⁴Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. (1 Corinthians 15:24), "Even the Father," our attention is called to the way in which God will be known to His people for that eternal day. Although the Church will be able to call God "Father," all others will address Him as "the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," for only through Christ can He be known in the various families of earth or heaven. Eph. 4:6⁶One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:6). Matt. 25:34³⁴Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Matthew 25:34).

What a near relationship to God, all in all, to which the various families of heaven and earth have been brought, the assembly, the Jew, the Gentiles, and elect angels, all because of the mighty work on the cross of Calvary, and by Jesus' adding the fifth part, in returning to God what we had stolen-ruined- in our sin against God. In the Old Testament, if a man stole, when found out he must restore the principal with the fifth part. The Lord said at the time of the cross, "Then I restored that which I took not away." Num. 5:5-10⁵And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ⁶Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty; ⁷Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. ⁸But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. ⁹And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his. ¹⁰And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. (Numbers 5:5‑10). Psa. 69:4⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. (Psalm 69:4).

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