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I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. — REVELATION 21:1-2 New creation is the dominating notion of biblical theology because new creation is the goal or purpose of God’s redemptive-historical plan; new creation is the logical main point of Scripture.[50] — GREG BEALE
In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. — 2 PETER 3:13 When I heard that I was in the wrong place . . . my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring. I knew now . . . why I could feel homesick at home.[52] — G. K. CHESTERTON
C. S. Lewis said, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”[53]
I will put my dwelling place among you. . . . I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. — LEVITICUS 26:11-12 If the goodness, beauty, and wonder of creatures are so delightful to the human mind, the fountainhead of God’s own goodness (compared with the trickles of goodness found in creatures) will draw excited human minds entirely to itself. — THOMAS AQUINAS
“My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people” (Ezekiel 37:27) and “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people” (2 Corinthians 6:16).
“God himself will be with them” (Revelation 21:3).
Evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. . . . The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. — PSALM 37:9-11, NKJV Why do we not know the country whose citizens we are? Because we have wandered so far away that we have forgotten it. But the Lord Christ, the king of the land, came down to us, and drove forgetfulness from our hearts. God took to Himself our flesh so that He might be our way back. — AUGUSTINE
I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. — LUKE 22:29-30
“Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places and her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and sound of a melody” (Isaiah 51:3, NASB). “They will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited’” (Ezekiel 36:35, NASB). “Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree” (Isaiah 55:13, NKJV).
It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed and then cried: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.”[61]
I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you— every living creature on earth. — GENESIS 9:9-10 The whole brute creation will then, undoubtedly, be restored, not only to the vigour, strength, and swiftness which they had at their creation, but to a far higher degree of each than they ever enjoyed.[64] — JOHN WESLEY Isaiah 11:6-9 speaks of a coming glorious era on Earth: The wolf will live with the lamb, the
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Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. . . . They will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them. . . . The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. — REVELATION 14:13; 22:3
