The End...

The last 3 months we have gone from the Beginning (Genesis 1) thru the fall (Genesis 3), the promise  pt 1 (Genesis 3), the promise pt 2 (Genesis 12), a foretold King (Genesis 49), the Passover Lamb (Exodus 12), and David's House (2 Samuel 7). We've seen the prophets tell of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53), Power over death (Ezekiel 37), and the New Creation Foretold (Isaiah 65)... 

Finally after 4000+ years since the fall the one who had been promised arrives (Mark 1) Jesus is declared to be the Righteous Son of God. He becomes the Servant and is hung on the cross (John 19) and thankfully for us did not stay dead (John 20/Romans 1). Christ the paid the price for our sins to make way for us to be made right with God (Romans 3).

We saw in the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth His plan was to dwell within his creation but unbeknownst to us in his sovereignty it would take far longer than we could have imagined. But we see the promise in Revelation 21 reminding us that he is not done yet... 

Take a look - Revelation 21:1-8

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed. I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: 

Look! God’s dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them.

They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away.

Then the One seated on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.” 

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life. The victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. 

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

What do we see? Finally in the end God will be taking up his residence with his people. How is this possible? Hasn't sin contaminated this earth? What does he say in vs 5? "Look! I am making everything new." 

And guess what! This isn't something in which is still up for debate because look at the very next verse... "It is done!" 

Praise God!!! It's not resting on our shoulders anymore... God says it's over, it's finished, it's done...