Isaiah 65:17-25
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 "Behold, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.
20 "Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;
he who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere youth;
he who fails to reach a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the works of their hands.
23 They will not toil in vain
or bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,
they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
but dust will be the serpent's food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,"
says the LORD.
The prophet Isaiah tells us there will be a new heavens and a new earth...The current earth and current heaven will change...The prophet tells us that the former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind...There will be a new creation...Jerusalem will be recreated and God will rejoice over His new Jerusalem...The sound of weeping and crying will be heard no more...
Infants will die in just a few days...People who die at age one hundred will be considered young in and on this new earth...We used to build and plant things and continue to build and invent things...When the new heaven and new earth come, we will no longer live in houses...We will live as old as the trees...We will not toil in vain in the new heavens...Our descendants will be with us...God will even answer us before we pray...When we speak He will hear...We will live with our enemies on God's Holy Mountain...It certainly will be different...
God someday will give us a new heaven and a new earth...Peace will reign...We will live with each other, and we will not remember why anyone was our enemy...
We will get to to the new heaven only by God's grace...We do not get to heaven by our works, only by the grace of God (Ephesians 2:5)...Man is a sinner...We realize through Jesus that we cannot make it to heaven on our own...Jesus changes us...He transforms us...Bad people and sinners do go to heaven, because of this transformation...We are unworthy...Jesus came to earth for sinners...He died for our sins...He came to seek and save what was lost (Luke 19:10)...He came to give His life as a ransom for us (Matthew 20:28)...It was His life...We are not good enough to go to heaven...We do not earn our way to heaven...Jesus gets us there...Jesus came to save our lives, so that we might live our lives more abundantly (John 10:10)...Jesus did not come to earth on His own, but the One who sent Him is true (John 7:28)...We will get to the new heaven through God's grace...