Salv Hist Chapter 22. The New Heavens and Earth.
Who know what it will be like. We can only guess. Can I make some suggestions:
1. God’s original intentions will be fulfilled. This means at least the following:
(i) We will live in a free will love relationship with God in a perfect state. Our communion with Him will be exactly like the communion of the Trinity – where their spirits are one.
(ii) What was only promised in the Garden of Eden in terms of eternal life will be a permanent possession.
(iii) God’s intention – that we should rule with him in his creation – will be fulfilled.
(iv) There will be a new creation.
Christ in the incarnation assumed a physical body which then dies and rose again and was transformed and went into heaven. In doing this Christ took the material nature of this universe which, because of the Fall, was hanging over nothingness, and hallowed it. He has made this physical universe permanent. But it will be remade. God’s intention for man is not that we be bodyless like the angels, but that we be beings that partake in both the physical and spiritual realms. But our new bodies will have greater powers, about which we know nothing. Except for that, Like Christ’s resurrection body, it will not be bound by time and space. Star Gate will have nothing on what we will be doing.
I suspect that in this new creation there will be new stars and worlds and inhabitants of those worlds. I think that it is those worlds we shall reign after the Millennium. We will have a hand in creating the worlds, then in ruling them. They may be in other dimensions. In other words the eternal future of man will not be limited to this world.
(v) God is a God of increase and his original intention was that man should reproduce and increase and fill the earth. I cannot believe that there will be no means of increase in the human population in the New Creation, so that we can fill the worlds we create and rule. What that means I am not sure.
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