New Heavens. New Earth. By Rev. Mark Buetow
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Genesis 1:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. - Revelation 21:1
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he universe began with the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord makes all things new on the Last Day, there will be a new heavens and new earth. The universe is a physical place. It’s made of matter and energy. The new heavens and the new earth will be physical places. There will be matter and energy, maybe not quite in the way we know now, for there will be no more decay and death, but there will be physical matter nonetheless. This is what we believe when we confess in the Apostles’ Creed: I believe…in the resurrection of the BODY and the life everlasting. An eternal new creation. Not just some ghostly existence where our spirity spirits float around on fluffy clouds. New bodies. Bodies that don’t die, but bodies, nonetheless. Bodies that live in a world that God makes new when He comes again and makes all things new.
