Revelation 21:1-2 – Matty (Headwind)

February 10, 2021

Established Forever

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(Revelation 21:1-2) KJV

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
(Psalms 78:69) KJV

Is the Earth established forever or is it going to pass away? So which is it? We have statements which appear to be contradictory. If the foundation of the earth is a gravitational singularity this is easily resolved.

December 9, 2018July 15, 2022

Outer Darkness

I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(Matthew 8:11-12) ESV

Outer darkness is only referred to three times in scripture, but by using context we can establish what and where it is. The easiest thing to take for context is the gnashing of teeth, which occurs nine times in the Bible.

July 4, 2018July 7, 2022

July 4th

Matty's Paradigm a unified theory of everything

Indeed it was Very Good

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
(Genesis 1:31) NKJV

The fall of man and the corrupted state of creation aren’t the same thing. The universe had to be created in a corrupted state so that the fall of man could take place.

February 10, 2018February 13, 2022

February 10th

a drawing compass and the creation of gravity on the second day

The Foundations of the Earth

My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.
(Isaiah 48:13) ESV

A gravitational singularity was established forever: it formed the foundation of the first heaven and Earth; it will be the foundation of the new heaven and Earth. It shall not be removed.

December 1, 2017December 3, 2021

December 1st

God’s Rightful Place

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(Revelation 21:1-2) KJV

During the month of December our devotion is going to be a study of heaven, which is to say, the next life. We’re going to see if we can clear up some misconceptions about what comes next.

November 2, 2017November 2, 2021

November 2nd

New Heavens and a New Earth

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
(Isaiah 65:17) KJV

The Millennial Kingdom is what the Old Testament prophets referred to as “a new heavens and a new earth,” but it’s not the new heavens and new earth that John describes in Revelation chapters 21-22.