The New Heavens and New Earth

Isaiah 65:17

"Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,… and no one will even think about the old ones anymore." (Isaiah 65:17)

There is a glorious future awaiting the redeemed. Although God’s primeval creation of the heavens and the earth is eternal

Psalm 148:6 "He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.", these are now groaning in pain under the effects of sin and the curse. When the Lord returns,

Romans8:21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. they will be “delivered from the bondage of corruption into . . . glorious liberty”

2 Peter 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.

There are four explicit references in the Bible to these “renewed” heavens and earth. In addition to Isaiah 65:17, which assures us that they will be so wonderful that this present earth and its heavens will soon be altogether forgotten, there is the great promise of:

Isaiah 66:22"As surely as my new heavens and earth will remain, so will you always be my people, with a name that will never disappear," says the Lord

Thus, that heavens and earth will remain eternally, and so will all who dwell there, with their true spiritual children.

Note also that both God’s “creation” and “making” powers will be applied to the new heavens and new earth, just as they were to the first

Genesis 2:3And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

The third and fourth references are in the New Testament.

2 Peter 3:13“But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God's righteousness.“

Not only will no sin be present there, neither will the results of sin and the curse.

Revelation 21:1, 4“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone├ö├ç┬¬├ö├ç┬¬├ö├ç┬¬.He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever."..