A New Heavens and A New Earth
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· 59 viewsA new year sermon to remind us of the true value of new.
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New “chadash”
New “chadash”
New “chadash”
New “chadash”
The Hebrew word for new appears 53x in OT.
It means recent/fresh, or something not previously existing. [VCEDONTW, V1,p.160]
Only in does it mean “renew”.
New People
New People
The Jews were a unique people with a unique function.
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
However, long before Isaiah they had failed in their mission and God would welcome anyone in to His presence who would be faithful to Him.
“I was sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ To a nation that was not called by My name.
Isaiah 65:
For them a new heavens and a new earth was being prepared where they would have a new name.
You shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen; For the Lord God will slay you, And call His servants by another name;
Isa 65:
Man in his futility would try and shrink God.
For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.
Isa. 66:1
“For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.
Isa. 66:
Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
This exalted mountain is the new heavens and the new earth of .
“For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
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“For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendants and your name remain.
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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New Kingdom
New Kingdom
My assertion is that the new heavens and the new earth of is the kingdom of God that John said was close (), and which Jesus preached, .
It is the same kingdom into which 1st century Christians were translated, .
It is the same kingdom that John was in, 9.
It is the same kingdom into which Gentiles and Jews were added, ; ; .
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:3
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Henbrews 11:6
Eph. 3:8-
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’
Acts 26:17-18
Isaiah’s vision is the work of the Messiah establishing the church that is Christ’s!
New Dwelling
New Dwelling
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Peter addresses the church but speaks of the new heavens and new earth as something for which we seek. Why?
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
John saw a new heaven and a new earth and this after the final judgment scene of . Why?
If Isaiah saw a new heavens and a new earth and that is the church, and Peter and John saw a new heavens and a new earth but in our future, how can they be one and the same thing?
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Gen. 6:
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Gen. 9:
When Noah left the ark after the flood, he would have seen a heavens and an earth that he had never seen before. It was very different. there was blue sky. There were mountains that reached beyond the clouds. This is the world we see. We think it is beautiful, yet it was not the perfect world God created in . Rather, it was the world refashioned as a habitation for God’s people and was born out of sin and corruption. It was fashioned from death and rebellion.
God can take the wickedness of man and form something beautiful out of it. If He can do that with the world that we see and the universe that surrounds us, can He not do it with your soul?
He took the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the wilderness where He gave them His law and His covenant. He brought them to the mountain to worship Him. He dwelt among them as their God. He provided all that they needed to sustain their lives and their souls.
Was that not a new heavens and a new earth that they saw when they first walked upon Canaan’s soil. No taskmasters. No crack of the crocodile’s jaw upon the infant Hebrews. No slavery to a foreign king.
For them a new heavens and a new earth was the hope of something better.
Yet, they rebelled and God raised up prophets like Isaiah to preach to the people to warn them and promise them of a new heavens and a new earth where both Jew and Gentile would dwell side by side.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
rev. 5.1
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”