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Well, tonight we are shutting down our series entitled “Heaven Bound” and we will be moving on to an Old Testament prophet in the weeks to come.
What is one thing you’ve learned that has given you hope for Heaven from this series?
Pray
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Will Our Bodies Shine On The New Earth?
Do you remember the last verse in the old hymn “Amazing Grace”?
“When we’ve been there 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun...” apparently John Newton believed that in Heaven on the New Earth we would shine with the brilliance and glory of God.
To find our answer we must look to the Bible:
Or, take :
These are the two most popular passages to quote when discussing the idea that we may shine or glow on the New Earth.
On the other hand, remember when Jesus was resurrected He appeared so earthly and normal that on the road to Emmaus () the disciples didn’t even notice that He was the resurrected Jesus.
AKA he wasn’t shiny.
However, we must remember Jesus had not been glorified yet.
Let’s think about what Jesus looked like in glory:
Luke 9:28-
Here Luke seems to indicate that Jesus is shining in His preincarnate glory - his clothes became dazzling white and His face was altered.
It’s not hard to believe that Jesus will shine in His kingdom on the New Earth - I mean John even says in that “the Lamb is its lamp.”
That means Jesus is the one who puts off light on the New Earth.
Even here in the passage Moses and Elijah appeared in glory since they’d been in the presence of Christ.
Look what happened to Moses when he received the 10 commandments:
Why did Moses’ face shine?
He had been in the presence of the glory of God and it altered his appearance.
All this to say, I believe as resurrected beings we have good evidence to conclude that we will indeed bear this physical evidence of being God’s image bearers who live in God’s presence.
To be glorified with the Lord on the New Earth will mean that we may literally shine.
Have you ever said, mans she is radiant - she shines - you ever said something like that?
Or, maybe you’ve said - that person is so unhealthy and drab - anyone?
Well, we know the difference from someone who is beautiful and radiant to someone who is sickly and malnourished.
Think on the New Earth we will be in the very presence of God, so righteous, so beautiful, so devoid of any sin and darkness, and so permeated by the very goodness of God, that we have a literal physical radiance.
Is that so hard to imagine?
So, yes I do believe that we will shine out with God’s glory on the New Earth.
2. Will We Eat Meat On The New Earth?
So, last week we discussed how we will experience hunger and thirst - for food and water - and those are our natural bodily stimulants for eating and drinking that God created us with - but on the New Earth we will always be satisfied.
Remember, hunger is only bad when it is not freely and fully satisfied.
On the New Earth it will be - which means - we will look forward to meals!
We will anticipate and long for our next meal or snack!
This is a good thing!
Which lead Mason Sullivan to send in the question “Will we all be vegans on the New Earth?” I’m going to simplify that to “Will we eat meat on the New Earth?”
According to God provided plants for humans and animals to eat.
It appears that we didn’t eat animals until after the flood:
Genesis 9
It makes sense that people and animals wouldn’t eat meat before the Fall, when living beings didn’t die.
But why weren’t animals eaten between the Fall and the flood?
Well, think about this Noah’s father, Lamech, was actually born before Adam even died (check )!
So maybe that close to Eden it was still unthinkable to eat the creatures that God had given Adam and Eve to take care of.
IDK.
There are actual theologians that think animals died before the flood - but this is based, mostly, on Science and carbon dating and not on Scripture.
For instance says:
In this passage Scripture clearly ties death to Adam’s sin.
I believe is what we can expect on the New Earth:
Romans 8:
That’s a then and now.
After the Fall creation was subjected to futility, but after the resurrection they will obtain freedom of the glory of the children of God.
They will experience life the way it is supposed to be!
On this Earth we hunt for pleasure and food - both can be good things - and we enjoy steak, chicken, fish, and bacon.
On the New Earth likely, God will create a meat substitute that tastes better, looks better, and has better nutrients than any steak you’ve ever eaten, but it won’t have come from dead animals.
The food chain may seem natural to us - we eat animals, animals eat each other, etc. - but I think it is in violation of God’s original design.
No more curse and no more death means no more food chain involving living creatures.
As radical as that sounds, it will likely be a return to God’s original intention.
3. Will We Remember on the New Earth?
Jarrod Adams asked this question - and, he had good reason.
The short answer is yes, yes indeed we will remember our life on Earth on the New Earth.
Here’s why Jarrod Adams asked this question.
Pick up your bibles and go to .
Isaiah 65:17
So it seems to say we will not remember our life on earth.
But, when we put it into it’s context - here’s what we see.
Look at (v.16).
See, this passage is about God, and him not remembering by choice, in that he won’t bring up the former things that were bad and sinful.
But remember we get the principle of remembering (even bad things) on the New Earth from :
The comfort implies that we have memory of what happened to us on this earth - including the bad.
If we had no memory of the bad things, why would we need comfort?
How would comfort feel if we couldn’t remember bad?
Our minds, students, will be clearer on the New Earth, not foggier.
Memory is basic to personality.
The principle of same and renewal requires that we will remember our past lives.
Listen to what Father Boudreau said about this concept (he was on the money), “For the sins which so often made us tremble, are washed away in the blood of Jesus, and are, therefore, no longer a source of trouble.
The remembrance of them rather intensifies our love for the God of mercy, and therefore increases our happiness.”
So yes we will remember - God will wipe away tears - but He will not wipe away our memories (even the martyred saints in the Present Heaven know how they were martyred).
4. Will We Continually Learn on the New Earth?
God alone is all-knowing (omniscient).
Even after death, if you are a believer in Christ, you will not know everything even though you will see things much more clearly.
Some people think we can’t continually learn in Heaven on the New Earth because of :
This seems to say that we will know fully - much like God - but in the Greek this word (epiginoskow) means to know or learn.
Whenever it is used of people in the Bible it never means absolute knowledge.
Listen to what Wayne Grudem says about this verse, “ does not say that we will be omniscient or know everything, Paul could have said we will know all things ta panta in Greek, if he had wished to do so, but, rightly translated, it simply says that we will know in a fuller or more intensive way, even as we have be known, that is, without any error or misconceptions in our knowledge.”
So since we won’t know everything - that means we will actually learn on the New Earth.
It was God, not Satan that made us learners.
Jonathan Edwards believed that “in Heaven the saints will be progressive in knowledge to all eternity.”
Will our knowledge and skills vary?
Will some people in Heaven have greater knowledge and specialized abilities than others?
Why not?
Scripture never teaches sameness in Heaven.
We will be individuals, each with our own memories and God-given gifts.
Some of our knowledge will overlap, but not all.
I’m not a mechanic or gardener, as you may be.
I may or may not learn those skills on the New Earth.
But even if I do, that doesn’t mean I’ll ever be as skilled a gardener or mechanic as you will be.
After all, you had a head start on learning.
Remember the doctrine of continuity: What we learn here carries over after death.
Don’t you love to discover something new?
On the New Earth, some of our greatest discoveries may relate to the lives we’re living right now.
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