Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 01.04.2000
New world
Creator's new version of the creation will be better than the current one. The old creation is going toward its destruction, but God will make everything new. How would you feel to be in an immortal body or to live in a house that is designed by God? How would you feel to stroke a lion that eats grass or to caress a wolf with your right hand and a lamb with your left hand? How would you feel to walk on the shiny streets of the city that is build by God and to eat the fruit of the tree of life in the perfect gardens, and you would have no need to sleep? You will have these experiences and boundlessly other good things, if you believe in Bible's Jesus.
Waiting in paradise
We know that we as Jesus' own will be in heaven after we die. However it is only a temporary form of existence. There we are waiting for the new body that we will get. When a believer dies his soul goes to Jesus, to the paradise of God. Jesus says: "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,..." John.17:24 Jesus said on the cross to the criminal who humbled himself: "Today you will be with me in paradise."
We know that we as Jesus' own will be in heaven after we die. However it is only a temporary form of existence. There we are waiting for the new body that we will get. When a believer dies his soul goes to Jesus, to the paradise of God. Jesus says: "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,..." John.17:24 Jesus said on the cross to the criminal who humbled himself: "Today you will be with me in paradise."
New body
When Jesus pronounces His promise about our future, He doesn't stress that we will get to the paradise, but that we will have a new body in the resurrection. "Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." John.6:40
He speaks about rising up from dead, because He speaks about our future from the viewpoint of this world. The dead seem like fallen asleep to us, but to those who live in paradise they are like competitors of a race who finish their race. Cries of joy are heard there and praises to God of one more believer getting a haven.
Also apostle Paul speaks like Jesus when he says: "We do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. ..., and the dead in Christ will rise first..." 1Thess.4:13-17
When Jesus pronounces His promise about our future, He doesn't stress that we will get to the paradise, but that we will have a new body in the resurrection. "Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." John.6:40
He speaks about rising up from dead, because He speaks about our future from the viewpoint of this world. The dead seem like fallen asleep to us, but to those who live in paradise they are like competitors of a race who finish their race. Cries of joy are heard there and praises to God of one more believer getting a haven.
Also apostle Paul speaks like Jesus when he says: "We do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. ..., and the dead in Christ will rise first..." 1Thess.4:13-17
What kind of resurrection?
Jesus is a new Adam. His new body that He got in the resurrection is a prototype of a new man, because it is written: "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body." Phil.3:20-21
When disciples met Jesus after His resurrection He went through walls though He also ate with them. His body had the same shape, but its quality was much better. In that body He also flew up to the clouds.
"For the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality." 1Cor.15:53
"We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." Rom.8:23
Jesus is a new Adam. His new body that He got in the resurrection is a prototype of a new man, because it is written: "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body." Phil.3:20-21
When disciples met Jesus after His resurrection He went through walls though He also ate with them. His body had the same shape, but its quality was much better. In that body He also flew up to the clouds.
"For the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality." 1Cor.15:53
"We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." Rom.8:23
Resurrection of nature
"The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed....that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God." Rom.8:19,21 Nature movies are not always so nice, because animals kill each other. What now is natural is not inevitably that what God originally planned. The consequences of the Fall concern the whole creation, not only man.
"The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed....that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God." Rom.8:19,21 Nature movies are not always so nice, because animals kill each other. What now is natural is not inevitably that what God originally planned. The consequences of the Fall concern the whole creation, not only man.
What kind of a new nature?
"The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD. " Isaiah 65:25
God so loved the world that He sent Jesus to save the whole creation. Therefore it is written: "Preach the good news to all creation." Mark 16:15
So hear all plants and animals the word of God: "You will be made new, when Jesus comes."
"The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD. " Isaiah 65:25
God so loved the world that He sent Jesus to save the whole creation. Therefore it is written: "Preach the good news to all creation." Mark 16:15
So hear all plants and animals the word of God: "You will be made new, when Jesus comes."
New planet
This planet will have the future of about one thousand years. "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." Rev.21:1 This will happen after Jesus has ruled on the earth with His own about one thousand years.
It is said about the destiny of the old world: "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2Peter.3:10
This planet will have the future of about one thousand years. "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." Rev.21:1 This will happen after Jesus has ruled on the earth with His own about one thousand years.
It is said about the destiny of the old world: "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2Peter.3:10
What kind of the new planet?
Then there will be no more two separate creations, invisible and visible, but they are joined together to one creation. "He made known to us the mystery of His will,... to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ." Eph.1:9-10
On that planet there is no sea. There is one high mountain on which it is build Jerusalem of God. God Himself lives there. The planet doesn't need light of any sun, but God will give them light. It must be bigger planet than the earth, because the city is so high that it cannot stay on this small planet.
The city is designed by God. Its building materials are precious and excellent. Its beauty is brilliant. There is the river of the water of life and the tree of life. Whatever we will do together with God, it will be interesting! The variety of His deeds in the current nature gives us a little foretaste of the richness of His talents.
Jesus Christ died once for you so that you could have the access to the new world. Take care that we will meet in the golden city!
Then there will be no more two separate creations, invisible and visible, but they are joined together to one creation. "He made known to us the mystery of His will,... to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ." Eph.1:9-10
On that planet there is no sea. There is one high mountain on which it is build Jerusalem of God. God Himself lives there. The planet doesn't need light of any sun, but God will give them light. It must be bigger planet than the earth, because the city is so high that it cannot stay on this small planet.
The city is designed by God. Its building materials are precious and excellent. Its beauty is brilliant. There is the river of the water of life and the tree of life. Whatever we will do together with God, it will be interesting! The variety of His deeds in the current nature gives us a little foretaste of the richness of His talents.
Jesus Christ died once for you so that you could have the access to the new world. Take care that we will meet in the golden city!
The Bible version used in references is NIV