This past Wednesday both us in the youth house and those in the adult Bible study talked about the new heavens and the new earth. I came across this quote today and thought it went along with the subject we are thinking through together.
"The world into which we shall enter in the Parousia of Jesus Christ is therefore not another world; it is this world, this heaven, this earth; both, however, passed away and renewed. It is these forests, these fields, these cities, these streets, these people, that will be the scene of redemption. At present they are battlefields, full of the strife and sorrow of the not-yet-accomplished consummation; then they will be fields of victory, fields of harvest, where out of seed that was sown with tears the everlasting sheaves will be reaped and brought home" -Edward Thurneysen (Zwischen den Zeiten, 1931, p. 209).
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