"Behold, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind. - Isaiah 65:17
Not only will we march someday into that magnificent city, Zion, a new Jerusalem, but it will be with a new mind as well. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. All the pain, all the sorrows, all the struggles, all the temptations, all the failures, all the grief, all the anger, all broken dreams, all the failed governments, disgraced politicians and preachers, all the celebrities, all the prized possessions, all of this life as we know it now, will not be remembered. It will not come to mind.
Instead, we will find ourselves where the wolf and the lamb eat together and the lion eats straw like the ox. And most importantly, we will be in the presence of the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the one who is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. - Is 66:15 NIV
We will find ourselves in his presence and will escape his anger, not through any valiant effort of our own, but because we believe in his Son, the one who paid the price and purchased our way into this glorious new kingdom.
"As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me," declares the LORD, "so will your name and descendants endure. From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me," says the LORD. - Is. 66:22
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