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This quarter we’re looking at “Life Everlasting.”
Our views of the future destiny of humanity are out of step with the majority who believe you float away to heaven when you die and spend eternity there. How do we best present the “new earth home” as the Scriptural reality? And what difference does it make?
The Day of the Lord is going to happen. Doubt about the time can lead to doubt about the event. But no, says Peter, it is absolutely certain. The Lord will come. And as a result we should be looking forward to that new heaven and new earth, the home of righteousness.
Why? Because of the ongoing paradox of a good God and a suffering world—a situation that on the surface is antithetical to the character of God. As John Stott says, “The fact of suffering undoubtedly constitutes the single greatest challenge to the Christian faith, and has been in every generation. Its distribution and degree appear to be entirely random and therefore, unfair. Sensitive spirits ask if it can possibly be reconciled with God’s justice and love.”
Only as the conflict is resolved through the unmasking of evil’s real face, only as God is demonstrated to be the loving, compassionate Being he says he is, only as all his creation agrees with him that he was right all along—only then can God bring this rebellion to a close. Those who have chosen the Devil’s way will be allowed their choice of final non-existence in the end-time destruction. And then, and only then, can God create a new heaven and a new earth, a place where righteousness dwells and the goodness of God reigns supreme.
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