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God’s Expression in the New Creation

All the new things, all the newness, and all the renewing in the New Testament have a glorious conclusion in Revelation 21—a new heaven, a new earth, and New Jerusalem.

New Jerusalem is the center of the new creation and the descriptions in Revelation 21:1 to 22:5 concentrate on the city. This focus is because the city fulfills God’s eternal plan to be expressed by His life in a corporate humanity.

In eternity past God purposed to have a corporate expression that He might be fully expressed and glorified (Eph. 3:9-11; 1:9-12). For this, He created the heavens, the earth, and mankind…When God finishes this work through the dispensation of the kingdom, the old heaven and old earth will pass away through fire and be renewed to become the new heaven and new earth (2 Pet. 3:10-13), into which the New Jerusalem will come to be God’s eternal expression.*

New JerusalemBesides the marvelous newness in Revelation 21, Isaiah 65:17 tells us “For I am now creating new heavens / And a new earth, / And the former things will not be remembered, / Nor will they come up in the heart.”

In New Jerusalem in the new creation we will completely enjoy Christ as everything. According to Isaiah 65:16-18 we will not remember the old creations nor make comparisons between the old and the new but we will rejoice in our Lord forever!

* Part of footnote 1 on Revelation 21:1 in the Recovery Version Bible published and © by Living Stream Ministry. A New Testament of this Bible, with 9000 footnotes, is available in multiple languages for free from Bibles for America, Bibles for Canada, Bibles for Europe.

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Posted by Don on June 14, 2024

https://newjerusalem12.wordpress.com/2024/06/14/gods-expression-in-the-new-creation/

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