New Creation!

Over the past 9 weeks we have looked at God's plan of redemption through the Old Testament. Since Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden (Genesis 3) We've seen our need for a redeemer (Exodus 12). We've seen the sin defeated by the suffering servant (Isaiah 53), the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34), and ultimately God's power over death (Ezekiel 37:1-14).

But what does all that lead to? What's in store? The prophets have a lot to say about this as well... 

In the first part of Isaiah 65 we see God's response to the prophet regarding salvation and judgment starting in (Is 65:17) we see the final stages of what God plans to do once judgment has been rendered. 

“For I will create a new heaven and a new earth; the past events will not be remembered or come to mind. Then be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people. The sound of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. In her, a nursing infant will no longer live only a few days, or an old man not live out his days. Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years, and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed. People will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For My people’s lives will be like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.  They will not labor without success or bear children destined for disaster, for they will be a people blessed by the Lord along with their descendants. Even before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the serpent’s food will be dust! They will not do what is evil or destroy on My entire holy mountain,” says the Lord.

What a promise! What an image!  “The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the serpent’s food will be dust!”

This is the fulfilment of the promise given to Adam and Eve in the garden when God told the serpent that the seed of the woman would crush his head!

Our journey isn’t over as we still have to trek through the New Testament but join us Sunday to look at the final chapter of our journey in the Old Testament!