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Finale Revelation and Imagination Daily Devotional- 50

by David Joynt on July 25, 2021

Finale Revelation and Imagination Daily Devotional- 50

REVELATION 21:1 | 1Then 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.

ISAIAH 65:17 | 17 For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.

ISAIAH 66:22 | 22For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord; so shall your descendants and your name remain.

The prophet Isaiah envisioned a time when God would create a new heaven and a new earth that would abide forever. John begins the second to last chapter of his book with a vision of this new heaven and earth. Now this word new has several senses. Does it mean new as in brand new and utterly separate and distinct from the current cosmos? Or does it mean “renewed” or made new in the sense of being transformed, completed, and perfected?

The kingdom Jesus teaches about and invites people into comes on earth: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven.” As in the biblical teaching about the resurrection of the body, there is both continuity and radical change in the cosmos coming. This chapter and the final one, 22, explore the similarities and differences, between earth now and then.

What new thing is God doing in you?

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About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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