Transcript Lesson 13 for March 30, 2013 “Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in.

Lesson 13 for March 30, 2013
“Nevertheless we, according to His promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth in which
righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13)
In the New Creation, God will restore everything
that sin damaged after the original Creation.
1. Restoration of the environment
(new Heaven and new Earth)
2. Restoration of life (resurrection)
3. Restoration of human dominion.
4. Restoration of the creatures (all
the living beings)
5. Restoration of relationship with
God.
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven
and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more
sea… And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there
shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be
no more pain, for the former things have passed away”
(Revelation 21:1, 4)
Our old Earth is expiring —the ozone depletion,
earthquakes, tsunamis, pollution, etc.
But it won’t self-destroy nor be destroyed by man.
Its Creator will make it disappear because He will
make it become “very good” again.
“And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW.
And he said unto me, Write: for these
words are true and faithful” (Revelation 21:5)
“The great plan of redemption
results in fully bringing back the
world into God’s favor. All that
was lost by sin is restored. Not
only man but the earth is
redeemed, to be the eternal
abode of the obedient. For six
thousand years Satan has
struggled to maintain possession
of the earth. Now God’s original
purpose in its creation is
accomplished. “The saints of the
Most High shall take the
kingdom, and possess the
kingdom for ever, even for ever
and ever.””
E.G.W. (The Adventist Home, cp. 79, pg. 539)
This is the cycle of man’s creation:
Man is created
from dust
(Genesis 2:7)
Man is created
from dust again
(Daniel 12:2)
Man comes
back to dust
because of sin
(Genesis 3:19)
Now you can accept the sacrifice and Jesus and be sure that you
will be part of the resurrection to eternal life. “Do not marvel at
this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will
hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to
the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the
resurrection of condemnation” (John 5:28-29)
The redeemed
never come
back to dust
again (John
10:28)
How long will it
take to Jesus to
create us again
from dust?
“IN A MOMENT, IN THE
TWINKLING OF AN EYE, at
the last trump: for the
trumpet will sound, and the
dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be
changed”
(1 Corinthians 15:52)
Fortunately, Jesus won’t need millions of years of evolution to make us resurrect, just
as He didn’t need evolution to create Adam and Eve.
Just in the twinkling of an eye… The living ones will be transformed and those who
slept because of death will wake up to live forever with the Lord.
There aren’t words to describe the gratitude that fills our souls because of this
promise!
There is also a cycle for the human
dominion over Creation.
“Satan, by means of his success in turning man aside from the path of obedience, became
“the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4). The dominion that once was Adam’s passed to
the usurper. But the Son of God proposed to come to this earth to pay the penalty of sin,
and thus not only redeem man, but recover the dominion forfeited. It is of this restoration
that Micah prophesied when he said, “O Tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter
of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion” (Micah 4:8)”
E.G.W. (Lift Him up, January 13)
What changed in animals because of sin?
 They didn’t live together peaceably anymore.
 A new “cycle of life” began; some animals kill
and feed on others.
 The relationship between animals and men
also changed.
“And the fear of you and the dread of you
shall be on every beast of the earth, on
every bird of the air, on all that move on
the earth, and on all the fish of the sea.
They are given into your hand. Every
moving thing that lives shall be food for
you. I have given you all things, even as
the green herbs”
(Genesis 9:2-3)
How will animals behave in the New Earth?
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the
leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze; their young
ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall
play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child
shall put his hand in the viper’s den”
(Isaiah 11:6-8)
“So He drove out the man; and He placed
cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden,
and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
guard the way to the tree of life” (Genesis 3:24)
“But your iniquities have separated you from
your God; and your sins have hidden His face
from you, so that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2)
How will man’s relationship with God be in the New Earth?
“And there shall be no more curse, but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in
it, and His servants shall serve Him. They
shall see His face, and His name shall be
on their foreheads. There shall be no night
there: They need no lamp nor light of the
sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And
they shall reign forever and ever.”
(Revelation 22:3-5)
“God’s original purpose in the creation of the earth is fulfilled as it is
made the eternal abode of the redeemed. “The righteous shall inherit
the land, and dwell therein for ever.” The time has come to which holy
men have looked with longing since the flaming sword barred the first
pair from Eden—the time for “the redemption of the purchased
possession.” The earth originally given to man as his kingdom, betrayed
by him into the hands of Satan, and so long held by the mighty foe, has
been brought back by the great plan of redemption.
All that was lost by the first Adam will be restored by the second. The
prophet says, “O Tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of
Zion, unto Thee shall it come, even the first dominion.” And Paul points
forward to the “redemption of the purchased possession.”
God created the earth to be the abode of holy, happy beings. That
purpose will be fulfilled when, renewed by the power of God and freed
from sin and sorrow, it shall become the eternal home of the redeemed”
E.G.W. (The Adventist Home, cp. 79, pg. 540)
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so
that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that
He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven
must receive until the times of RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS, which God
has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began”
(Acts 3:19-21)