New Heavens and New Earth (31)
  1. God's city is beautiful because God has constructed it to offer eternal safety to all weary sinners.
  2. The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, just like our bodies on the day of the resurrection.
  3. Things are falling apart. Nothing new, just a different way. Jesus falls smack dab in the middle of all this shit!
  4. When Christians die, heaven does not “get another angel.” We cannot become angels any more than we can become giraffes or ocean waves or stars. We are people and will remain so after this present life. God did not make a mistake when he made us human.
  5. When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.
  6. The main point Paul has been getting at in Romans is what God has done in the One man Jesus the Messiah—the rightful heir of God’s earthly kingdom—is far, far more than simply putting the human race back where it was before the intrusion of sin.
  7. We long for the Great Thanksgiving that hasn’t happened yet.
  8. Through the means of grace, Christ grants us a share in all the blessings of this ancient hope.
  9. As our first parents had a bond with the animals, as Noah had animals with him in the reboot of creation after the flood, so after this old creation comes to an end, we will enjoy a new creation that includes animals.
  10. In this episode we have a conversation about the new earth!
  11. This week, Gillespie and Riley read from William Barclay's spiritual biography, whether all people go to heaven.
  12. This blog is a part of our Advent series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ. Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.
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