Revelation 21: 1 – 4
Many writers such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and others, tell stories of a bleak future for mankind, many movies and TV shows depict the same thing. The world has become cold and dead and people have become no better than animals wandering the vast wasteland of what used to be civilization. There may be one or two outposts where humanity flourishes, but these enclaves turn out to be places of evil and selfish oppression, where mankind has transformed into just another type of predator.
God sees our future quite differently.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
2 I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
The biblical view of the future is very different. It tells us that God is Lord over time itself: “With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8). We can be optimistic about the future because God will replace our world with a new one. In that new heaven and new earth we will experience blessed fellowship with our Creator for eternity. Even now, Jesus is preparing a place for those who love Him (John 14:1-3), a place where “there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying”.
I will take the Biblical view over that of famous agnostics every time.
If God has made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found! —Montgomery
Jesus is preparing a place for us and preparing us for that place.
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