226. What will the new creation be like?
The new creation is described in ways that are both familiar and mysteriously unfamiliar. The Bible describes a "new heaven and a new earth" in terms much like creation was before the fall, but entirely new and also different in certain ways.
2 Peter 3:13 But according to His promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Isaiah 65:17-18 For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forev in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.
Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first Heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Revelation 22:3, 5 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will worship Him. ... And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in Heaven.
Isaiah 60:19-20 The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
Read 2 Peter 3:5-13, where Peter compares the end-time cleansing of the creation by fire with the cleansing of the earth by the flood in Noah's day. In Revelation 21:1-5, John describes the new Heaven and the new earth as the new Jerusalem.
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