4afaithfulone
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I have a different view of the new heavens and earth. not a physical change like some teach but a restoration of the earth to its pre curse state. if we are going to take that part of revelation 22 literally, then where are the lost on the earth? right outside the front gate!
Well God is going to do away with all the cities as we see today where nothing breeds there except greed, addictions, crime and love loss.
All cities except the Bride New Jerusalem for there will not be but one LORD over all, yet the kings and priests of God will rule and reign for the 1,000 yrs that is just at the door.
And I do believe you are right that it will in no way be as we see it today. All technology that has been set up in the last 100yrs to allow the testing of men's hearts, will be gone.
God is about His natural creation, He did not created all the garbage in the earth as ungodly children have been taught to make and dump in His lakes, rivers, ponds, and seas. They not only rob God by pulling things out of His earth and are redesigning them for destructive inventions to gain wealth, but they are just little children who have dangerous things in their hands they have no idea of the consequences till too late because they won't listen to their Creator.
He is going to destroy all who insist on destroying His earth.
Rev 11:17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead{SPIRITUALLY DEAD}, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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That is why He would not even accept an offering laid on a altar hewned with tools but only natural stone. God said He has told us the End, from the Beginning, so He is saying that it will all be restored to Glory of Him. We did not eat the animals in the first world, only after Noah's flood were we allowed to eat meat.
This as we are seeing today is the same corruption that happened to the old world, for Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun it has all been before in the world before us.
Eccl 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
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