Day 32 — The Present Heavens and Earth are preserved for Undoing by Fire

Day 32 — The Present Heavens and Earth are preserved for Undoing by Fire

2 Peter 3: 7, 10–13
But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

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An ancient prophecy was given by the True God, the God of Israel YHWH יהוה to Isaiah. God reveals to Humanity what the Future will look like through the Hebrew Scriptures. And one of the many prophecies that YHWH יהוה pronounced is His creation of an eventual New Heaven and New Earth. Jerusalem will be the Capital on the New Earth, and there will no longer be death / predation in the Eternal State.

Isaiah 65:17–19,25
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says YHWH יהוה

The people of the Jewish nation have, since then, been waiting for this New Earth — even for those who have already died and entered Sheol שְׁאוֹל — the World Below. This is because there are also prophecies that state that there will be a Corporate Resurrection of Humanity, and that the Souls of the Deceased in the Old Testament Era will not forever stay in the Underworld. (Ps 30:3, Isa 14:15)

Daniel 12:2–3
Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Fast Forward to the First Arrival of Jesus ישוע -> He further explained that only those who have had Faith and Trusted in YHWH יהוה will be Resurrected and be allowed to live on the New Earth Eternally.

For those who lived during the New Testament Era — the way now to be included in the Resurrection of the Just is to Believe in the Evangelion εὐαγγέλιον -> to have Faith in the fact that Jesus ישוע is YHWH יהוה Incarnate, and that He Died and Resurrected for the Full Forgiveness of Judicial Sin.

John 6:40
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙮.”

John 11:25
Jesus ישוע said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live,

The New Testament writers explain that the present Heaven and Earth will be Destroyed then Remade (after the Events of Revelation 6–20), ushering in the Eternal State — and only those who had Faith in the God of Israel YHWH יהוה may live in the New Earth Forever:

Revelation 21:1–4, 6–8
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars — they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

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