But here is the main thing. All this is simply the prelude to heaven. This is the overture of eternity. Whenever you go to an elaborate musical, the orchestra begins with an overture that has little strains and snippets of all the different songs in the program. Listening to the music gives you inklings of what is to come. The Millennium is an overture of heaven. It gives a limited, advanced snapshot of what heaven will be like. The millennial earth will simply be a precursor of the new earth—not as perfect, wonderful, or spectacular as the eternal earth, but a preview of some of its coming
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