In an attempt to “save” our planet, political scare tactics alarm people that our and Earth’s days are numbered. However, God will one day change this Earth, but not in the way the unbiblical theories predict.
The planet’s great transformation will not be soon, as many warn. Before God makes the prophesied changes, many things must first occur. Those events will include the Rapture of living believers, seven-year Tribulation, Second Coming of Christ, 1,000-year earthly reign of Christ, His judgment of believers, and the White Throne judgment for the unsaved, where many will be banished to the Lake of Fire for eternity (Rev. 20:14-15).
It is after those events that God will change Earth. First, all that we see will be destroyed by a fervent heat. Towering, resilient buildings will all be destroyed by a God-ordained fire. All the precious things man has so proudly sought and hoarded will also be obliterated. Nothing will remain of what man toiled to create and covet. Even the seas will no longer exist (Revelation 21:1).
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up… 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” II Peter 3:10-12“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” Rev. 21:1
This man-polluted orb will be purged of all of man’s doings and damage. God will renew the Earth. Even the sky will be changed.
“And I saw a new heave0n and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” Rev. 21:1
However, it will not be the end of man’s dwelling on our planet. The children of God will have a new place to dwell; it will descend from up high.
“ And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Rev. 21:2
“And he carried me [John] away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,” Rev. 21:10
The new residence for believers will glow with the glory of God (Rev. 21:11). It will be surrounded by great walls and will have gates (Rev. 21:12-14)
The new Jerusalem will be massive (Rev. 21:16-18) and gleam with gold and other precious gems (Rev. 21:16-21). The biblical description indicates it will be a cube.
The biblical dimensions are in furlongs, which equals .13 mile. Saved mankind’s new abode will be 1,560 by 1,560 by 1,560 miles. If those measurements are accurate, it will contain 3,796,416,00 cubic miles for its inhabitants. There will also most likely be more habitable area outside the New Jerusalem, and after the seas are gone.
“And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.” (Rev. 21:16)
The New Jerusalem will have almost four trillion square miles. It will have more square mileage than we currently have on Earth. It has been calculated that Earth has only 197 million square miles on our planet.
In that brilliant city, there will be billions of believers who trusted Christ as their Savior. I am sure, that there will be plenty of room inside the Holy City and much more outside its walls.
As massive as God’s creation will be there will certainly be room for more children of God. Have you been born into His family and will one day live in that beautiful creation? If you are not sure, this would be a wonderful day to trust Christ as your Saviour from the punishment due from your sins. There will plenty of room for you.
Read the commentary on Revelation 21 at http://www.devotionsfromthebible.com/dvblog/revelation/revelation-21/
“We talk about Heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there.” — D.L. Moody
