Thanks for the topic. I found it interesting and wanted to know more about it so prayterfully did a bit of reading today and found some interesting scriptures I thought I would share. The scripture in ISAIAH 65:17 with surrounding context says..
NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH AND A NEW JERUSALEM IN THE SCRIPTURES
ISAIAH 65:17-19,
[17] FOR, BEHOLD,
I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH: AND THE FORMER SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED, NOR COME INTO MIND.[18] But be you glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for,
BEHOLD, I CREATE JERUSALEM a rejoicing, and her people a joy.[19], AND I WILL REJOICE IN JERUSALEM, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Keep in mind there are no chapters in the scriptures here in ISAIAH, it is similarly repeated not long after in ISAIAH 66 here…
ISAIAH 66:22-23,
[22], FOR
AS THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH, WHICH I WILL MAKE, SHALL REMAIN BEFORE ME, SAID THE LORD, SO SHALL YOUR SEED AND YOUR NAME REMAIN. [23], And it shall come to pass, THAT FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER, AND
FROM ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER, shall all flesh come to worship before me, said the LORD.
The new testament scriptures speak of the new heavens and earth here being made for rightoeusness or the righteouss...
2 PETER 3:13
[13], Nevertheless WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK
FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jesus spoke of the renewal of all things - the time when all things are made new.
MATTHEW 19:28
Jesus said to them, I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,
AT THE RENEWAL OF ALL THINGS, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel
Same thing is mentioned in ACTS..
ACTS 3:21
Who [Christ] must remain in heaven UNTIL THE TIME OF UNIVERSAL RESTORATION THAT GOD ANNOUNCED LONG AGO THROUGH HIS HOLY PROPHETS (reference back to to ISAIAH 65 and ISAIAH 66)
As can be seen in the scriptures here IMO we are talking about God creating a new heaven and a new earth that will take place after the 2nd coming. Interestingly in the book of REVELATION we read this also about the “NEW JERUSALEM that God will create as referenced from ISAIAH 65:18 here…
REVELATION 3:12
HIM THAT OVERCOMES will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and i will write on him the name of my god, and the name of the city of my god, which is
NEW JERUSALEM, WHICH COMES DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM MY GOD: and I will write on him my new name.
Repeated here…
REVELATION 21:1
[1], And I SAW A
NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE
PASSED AWAY; and there was no more sea.
REVELATION 21:12
AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY,
NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Letting the scriptures speak for themselves I believe they are saying exactly what they are saying. God will create a new heaven and a new earth for God’s people after his second coming IMO.
Thanks for the topic. I enjoyed it