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God is make a new heaven and a new earth - just amazing!

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“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” ( Isaiah 65:17 ) People often think they are being practical when they place material values ahead of spiritual, emphasizing that we have to “live in the real world.” The fact is, however, that we are not living in the real world at all but in a world that is dying and will soon be gone. “The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” ( 1 John 2:17 ). This is not even the world that God created, for that world was “very good” ( Genesis 1:31 ). Because “sin entered into the world, and death by sin” ( Romans 5:12 ), therefore, “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” ( Romans 8:22 ). In fact, this world is not even as it was soon after God’s curse, for “the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” ( 2 Peter 3:6 ). The present, post-Flood world is now under the dominion of S