Reading
SAA Notes
The Great White Throne – you need never be afraid that God will make mistakes. His throne is WHITE! Meditate on 21:1-8. Find one thing that brings comfort to you?
SJA Notes
* Mighty God, Your word tells us we will all stand before You at the final trumpet. Please help us understand.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.”
There are so many veins of deep theology in this passage!
One of these is our understanding of what the inheritance for God’s people looks like, what God has been building (John 14), the place prepared.
It is a new heaven and a new earth!
It is a joining together of God and man in final full complete perfection, God dwelling with us, we His people, He our God.
This new dwelling place is the holy city, new Jerusalem, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband – This is us!
And how important are these words about this place being prepared for us,
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
This inheritance being prepared for us is one without the travail of this life (the former things have passed away).
Our struggle, our pain, our heartache and sorrow and loss – These are temporary.
Praise God for that!
* Dear God,
Hallelujah, we praise Your Name!
Thank You that You are preparing for us such a place as we read here!
Please fix our eyes on You today.
Amen.