God created the heavens and the earth.
The Bible clearly shows that God has chosen to give human kind dominion over God's creation. Everything worked perfectly as long as human kind
followed God's
instructions. When they didn't follow God's instructions and did not take responsibility for their actions (repent), they were no longer in direct communication with God. As a result
all of creation started to decay and no longer worked as God
intended. The rest of the Bible is about the sin
(disobedience) of our forefathers, as well as ourselves, and God's plan to
restore all of humankind to the Life He had originally intended. *
Things got so bad that God decided to destroy all life on earth, but Noah listened to God and did everything just as God
commanded. As a result Noah, his three sons, and their wives survived to start anew.
Abraham listened to God, obeyed, and went to the Promised Land "even though he did not know where he was going."
Moses listened to God
and lead God's people out of Egypt toward the Promised Land. **
Jesus Christ is God in human form to take sin (disobedience) from the world (John chapter 1). Throughout the Epistles Paul talks of people who
listen to God and live according to God's Word as
being recreated into
the Body of
Christ. They are set free to
serve one
another. God works through people to
restore all of
creation-so it will work again as God originally
intended.
Much of the technology we take for granted today was pure science fiction less than two centuries ago (in some cases much less), such as: automobiles, airplanes, space craft, electrical appliances, radio, television,
the Internet and thousands of other items we use every day! Therefore it stands to reason that things that seem to be science fiction today
may be commonplace a thousand years from now, such as: a recreated heaven & earth, a very large space station, life with God, peace, resurrection of the dead, eternal life, etc.
So we look
forward, equipped to
serve, as did
the saints of old (Hebrews chapter 11). By
working
together, prepared to tell others the
reason for our
hope, we walk as
Jesus
did, without
distractions, because we are looking forward to the new (restored) heaven and
earth.
Information about the transition to a new era was
sent to churches nearly 2000 years ago.
God's Word is unsealed though
spirituality,
terrorism,
famine,
death,
yearning for
justice, nuclear
war, people serving
God, and silence.
God's
people are separated as trumpets call God's people to a place prepared for
them.
The trumpet calls are in the form of a series of calamities that; kill
vegetation, destroy creatures & ships in the ocean,
kill people
through polluted water, darken
the
sky, torture
people, and kill
a third of mankind. During the trumpet calls: a series of Woes
are called out; a scroll is presented proclaiming that
the mystery of God will be accomplished with the seventh trumpet; and,
two witnesses
prophesy for 1260
days. During the seventh trumpet call God's temple in heaven
is opened.
At this point in the transition it appears that the
Philadelphia-type of people are no longer on earth.
The Smyrna-type
of people are busy
on earth helping others overcome while the dragon,
leopard beast and
lamb beast are on the earth leading people astray.
Those
who have overcome are on Mount Zion, which maybe the forerunner of the
New Jerusalem.
Three angles proclaim the gospel then the earth is harvested with a
sharp sickle
destroying disobedience through
God's
wrath. The abominations of the earth
have been
destroyed. Hallelujah!
*God works through people (imperfect people) to establish
"The Kingdom of God."
**For a brief overview of more books
in the Old Testament start at "the beginning" and
click on "Next" on the right side of the green line toward the bottom of the
page, as you go from one brief overview to another.