Last Sunday our church finished a seven months walk through the story of the Bible. It was a wonderful journey that ended with the Book of Revelation. Many find Revelation to be a difficult read, due to all the imagery and symbolism. But no matter the challenges one may face it is worth it, for in the last two chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the new heaven and new earth. I came across a beautifully written description of the comfort and joy of that new reality by Joseph Seiss. I want to share it with you.
“Think then what its regeneration must bring, an earth that no longer smarts and smokes under the curse of sin. An earth which needs no more to be torn by hooks and irons to make it yield its fruits. An earth where thorns and thistles no longer infest the ground, nor serpents hiss among the flowers, nor savage beasts lay in ambush to devour. An earth whose sod is never cut with graves, whose soil is never moistened with tears, or saturated with human blood, whose fields are never blasted with unpropitious seasons, whose atmosphere never gives wings to the seeds of plague and death. Whose ways are never lined with funeral processions, or blocked up with armed men on their way to war. An earth whose hills ever flow with salvation, and whose valleys know only the sweetness of Jehovah’s smiles, an earth from end to end and from center to utmost verge, clothed with the eternal blessedness of Paradise Restored”
That day is coming and for those who are in Christ all the “ugly” of this world will never be experienced again.
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