The Coming Glory and the Hope of the Creation
Man is the high point of God’s creation. God created man in His image to make man able to express God and represent Him (Gen. 1:26-28). However, man fell into sin and death and the whole creation thereby also fell.
God came to man in Jesus Christ to redeem man and to give man His life. At present all the believers have this life growing within them but still live in a fallen outward situation. The entire earth is full of dirtiness, decay, natural disasters, and death.
A fact hidden from the creation is recorded in Colossians 1:19-20. “For in Him [Christ] all the fullness was pleased to dwell and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross—through Him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.”
The reconciliation Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross was not only for humanity but also for “all things.” The creation was brought into corruption through man’s fall. Creation will also be uplifted through the believers in Christ being brought into glory at His return. This is a hope for all creation.
Romans 8:20-21 declares, “For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will also be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.”
The creation will never partake of New Jerusalem but it will dwell in an atmosphere governed by “the freedom of the glory of the children of God” both in the kingdom age and in the new creation. Isaiah 11:6-9 is presents a little of this atmosphere.
Our hope of glory is participation with the Christ of glory in New Jerusalem.
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Posted by Don on September 24, 2021
