But The New World is Promised

When and where, could we being seeing it already? I don’t think so, at least fully.

“Not ‘up there’ in a distant Heaven, but ‘down here’ on earth, in Jerusalem” – Randy Alcorn

The where, down here where we are. Remember that the New Earth will be resurrected and descend here where we are now. All that is known to us here in this world will be replaced with the New Earth. We will not “have to” go to find. The New Earth will be presented for us right here where we are now.

“²And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” – Revelation 21:2 (ESV)

Now, when. Well, that would be at the conclusion of the final battle. This current Earth, full of sin and death and the curse since the fall of Adam, will be completely destroyed and the New Earth will come. It must happen as the New Earth cannot have any of it. The judgment of the LORD will be upon this earth to the point of full annihilation and replaced with the New Earth as was created in the beginning.

“¹Then 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 21:1 (ESV)

Now, are we seeing it already? I think we are. You see, Christ came to this world to prepare us for His second coming. This was promised in scripture and it came to pass. So the full promise of God has already begun. We have already been made privy to the plan of God, and some of that plan has already occurred. So, we can have confidence that the plan will continue and we will see it all fulfilled. We just don’t know the timeline.

“⁶So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?’ ⁷He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.’” – Acts 1:6-8 (ESV)

We have the plan, we know the where, and we know the when, we just don’t know the timeline. But we do know that where we are now is only temporary and that when the time comes, it will be forever.

“⁵And 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.” – Revelation 22:5 (ESV)

What are you thinking of the promise of a new world? Are you looking for it today in a specific location? What if you look instead at the plan and find the where, when, and see that it is promised and has already begun fulfillment?