In this podcast, we construct a Biblical framework for thinking about the New Heaven and New Earth. The narrative of Scripture is the story of Creation, Covenant, Jesus, New Covenant, and New Creation. The Creator God made a good world. The result of human sin is the fracturing of heaven and earth, of human relationship with God, and of human relationship with each other. But God’s plan of salvation is a plan to pull it all together again— to make “all things new”. The vehicle for God’s salvation is the Covenant, specifically His covenant with Abraham. But Abraham’s descendents— Israel— is unfaithful. Enter: Jesus. Jesus, as the seed of Abraham, remains faithful to the covenant and by suffering our death, renews the covenant; Jesus, as the Divine Co-Creator, brings about new creation through His resurrection. Through Jesus, God is faithful to His project of Creation and His promise to restore and bless it through Abraham’s family.
It also means that when we surrender to Christ, we become a “new creation” in advance of heaven and earth being made new. While we don’t know much detail of the precise continuity and discontinuity between this heaven and this earth and new heaven and new earth, we suspect that like Jesus’ physical body that passed through death and was transformed, this earth and heaven will experience a “death” of judgment” and then be made new: the same materials reconstituted with new properties.
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