Eschatology: New Heaven and New Earth
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The eschatological position that I identify with is amillennialism, which posits that Christ established His Church and the ultimate act of Redemption through His death on the Cross and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles after the Resurrection and Ascension, and that He thus reigns from Heaven, where His true kingdom is. Through His Church, Christ is always with the world. This view is based on several verses in Scripture that indicate that Gods kingdom is spiritual and not of this world but rather of the next. These verses are Matthew 12:28, Luke 17:20-21, and Romans 14:17 to name just a few. This view also holds that the millennium or thousand year period referenced is more figurative than literal, but that the binding of Satan has been achieved through the sacrifice on the Cross, though Satan may still...
Satans binding is primarily to be understood in the sense that Christ has the ultimate victory and will save those who have faith in Him (Cox, 1966; Provan, 1987).
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In light of the amillennialist position, the New Heaven and the New Earth refer...
…earth, where righteousness dwells. Therefore,
beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace with Him, without spot or blemish (2 Peter 3:12-14). Peter urges the Christians to live in the way of God and not partake of
sin so that they may take part in the new kingdom of God, which is where all goodness is found.
Both Peter and Isaiah thus find the new heaven and new earth to be something that is not occurring in the present, physically, but rather something that is to be established by God (for Isaiah) in the future, and that is working from Heaven…
