Paradise Restored
- Dates
- After the Millennium
After the millennium and the wicked are judged and destroyed, the earth is purified with fire and then God creates the earth new. The New Jerusalem has become the center of the universe. God's people will live forever on the earth.
In detail
Revelation 21 tells of a new heaven and a new earth. By using the word "new," John is probably emphasizing the fact that the new heavens and earth will be created from the purified elements of the old, and thus be new in quality, different. The new heavens and the new earth are, then, a re—creation, a forming anew of existing elements, and not a creation ex nihilo. Compare 2 Peter 3:13.
Bible passages
- Revelation 21:1-8
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. …
Text of the King James Version.
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