Personally, I think some concrete is okay.. yeah, in some places. Sure, like in the city center. You know it beats other materials for building some structures, but in general.. I love animals and plants much better. I mean being around em. I like people too -- most of em. Some are kinda hard to show love to. Some act like rascals etc.
Not sure about cement, but I'm glad we have a better future ahead with plants, animals and kind-hearted people. Do you feel like that as well?
Countless people I meet long for Eden in their hearts, and many of them even if they don’t articulate it well even apply themselves regarding the environment so we can all return to Eden. And some do articulate it well.
God never meant for any animals to become bloodthirsty and then chase and eat each other out in the wild, or even under the surface of the seven seas.
The whole animal-world will one day be at peace with each other and with people too (peeps have greater value). Even the vegetable-world will be recreated.
Sure, God meant for the whole earth to become and stay fruitful and lush. Even the deserts will one day rejoice and blossom as roses. The whole earth will one day look like a beautiful well kept garden. So paradisiacal the growing ascetics everywhere here, so Edenic.
The Rapture, Second Advent (Christ’s returning here) and the Millennium on earth will all be SO awesome, cuz He is even more so. God in the Bible says of this...
“Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist. The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them. The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox." Isaiah 11:5-7
“The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God.." Isaiah 35:1-2
Does Isaiah 65: 20 Refer to the Millennium?
What Is the Millennium in Revelation 20?
“The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose and the autumn crocus. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of [Mount] Carmel and [the plain] of Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty and splendor and excellency of our God. Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble and tottering knees. Say to those who are of a fearful and hasty heart, Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance; with the recompense of God He will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. And the burning sand and the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lay resting, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.”
“On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.” Hosea 2:18
“For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.” Job 5:23
“Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.”
Isaiah 2:4
“The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will do no harm nor destruction on all My holy mountain," says the Lord.”
Isaiah 65:25
When you see the results of the “birth pains,” look up for your redemption is literally drawing near, Buckeroo. Listen, you, your current inner longings, and questions -- all matter.
- What is the Millennial Kingdom, and should it be understood literally? Will the Millennial Kingdom / Millennium be a literal 1,000 years?
- Why is God going to release Satan after the 1,000 years? Why will God allow Satan to lead one last great rebellion?
- In the last days, will everyone need to go to Jerusalem to worship God (Micah 4:2)? Why would God require all the nations to worship in Jerusalem?
- What is premillennialism (Chiliasm)? Will the Second Coming of Jesus Christ occur before the Millennium?
- What is the Great White Throne Judgment? When does a person experience the final judgment after death?
- What is the significance of the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem? Does the Eastern Gate being blocked in any way impact the second coming of the Messiah?
- Will David reign with Jesus in the Millennial Kingdom? Do the prophecies in Ezekiel mean that King David will literally reign during the 1000 years?
- What will happen when Jesus returns / comes back? What will happen when Jesus comes back? What does the Bible say will happen at the Second Coming of Christ?
- End Times Events that will Really Happen.
- What is millenarianism? What are the different types of Christian millenarianism?
- What is postmillennialism? How does postmillennialism differ from premillennialism and amillennialism?
- What is the second death? What does the Book of Revelation mean when it refers to the second death?
- What is the dispensation of the Millennial Kingdom? What are the important aspects of the dispensation of the Millennial Kingdom?Q&A: The Millennium, Euthanasia, and Mormonism (which is a cult).
Q&A: The Millennium, Satan, and Jehovah’s Witnesses (more cultists).
Q&A: Objective Morality, the 144,000, and the Millennium.
But How Could Christian Surfers Say There’ll Indeed Be Oceans on the New Earth When Rev. 21:1 Says Something Different?
“When Revelation 21:1 says that “the sea was no more,” we must try to understand sea in exactly the way the writer and his readers of the book of Revelation would have understood it. To the great majority of them, the sea was devoid of the romantic properties many of us associate with it. Rather, the sea consisted of those vast, icy, treacherous, stormy waters that separated families, destroyed ships, and drowned loved ones. It posed a constant threat, with its great creatures that swallowed up seafarers and its salt waters that poisoned people on the open sea who craved freshwater. With that understanding, “no more sea” was a reassuring prospect! ..it was God who created the seas (Genesis 1:9-10). Like everything else he made, they were very good (Genesis 1:31).
But the Curse had a devastating effect on creation, including the ocean waters.Even if Revelation 21:1 is a literal promise of “no more ocean,” this doesn’t necessarily mean the absence of large bodies of water. Revelation tells us a great river flows right through the capital city (22:1-2).
How much more water will there be outside the city? Flowing rivers go somewhere. Some of the world’s lakes are huge and sealike, so theoretically the New Earth could have even larger lakes. Huge lakes could, in effect, be freshwater oceans.Ezekiel 47 speaks of the water flowing from the Temple, which parallels the water flowing from the Messiah’s throne on the New Earth (Revelation 22). Ezekiel says, “I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river” (47:7, niv).
Then he is told, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh. Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live” (Ezekiel 47:8-9, niv).Ezekiel 47 goes on to say, “Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river.
Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing” (verse 12). This promise is applied directly to the New Earth in Revelation 22:2. Since this is clearly a New Earth passage, it appears that the reference to “no more sea” in Revelation 21 may simply mean “no more sea as we now know it.” ~ Randy Alcorn
