TEXT: REVELATION 21: 1 – 10
MEMORY VERSE: 2 Peter 3: 13”Nevertheless we according to His promise, look for new Heaven and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness
INTRODUCTION
If there is anything we have to say about this new heaven and a new earth, “there is a need for us to know something about the existing heaven and earth. As far as this existing heaven is concern” it is a place where the just are made perfect (Hebrew 12: 23) it is where the throne of God is (Isaiah 66: 1), it is also a place where the word of light was spoken into existence. While the earth on the other hand is a place where the work of God is made manifest, the earth was the extension of an invisible heaven to a visible scene, which has to be comfortable to the body of every living thing. One of the purposes of God’s creation was to make a visible heaven called the earth where man can be able to rule as king (Genesis 1: 26 – 28). Dominion in that vs. means royal authority sovereign power or kingdom. Though Adam lost it to Satan, But Jesus through his death and resurrection now bought us back to the kingdom (Revelation 1: 6, Revelation 5: 9 – 10)
Now that we have know little about the existing heaven and earth, little we have to say about the new heaven and new earth base on the book of revelation.
WHY WAS THERE THE NEED FOR A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH
It was because Satan and his agents already defiled the existing earth. (Revelation 21: 1 –5, Revelation 17: 1 – 5, revelation 18: 2 – 3)
God is keeping the Devil ignorant of the new kingdom (1 Corinthians2: 6 – 8)
A new home for the believers (Revelation 21: 3 – 6)
God want to bring man back to Edenic experience (Revelation 2: 7, Revelation 22: 2)
God specially built it for the believers (John 14. 2 – 3)
An inheritance for the righteous
A place free of the devil, evil and temptation (Revelation 22: 3)
A place of restoration and of worship of God (Revelation 21: 3 – 7
The new Jerusalem (Revelation 21: 2)
CONCLUSION
Walk in the light of God so that your name will be counted among those in the lamb’s book of life {Revelation 21: 23 – 26; Revelation 21: 10).
NB: The existing Heaven and Earth will melt with fervent heat and all things in it will be burned up and God will bring into existence a new Heaven and new earth. (2 Peter 3: 7 – 15)
