January 2009 - English

As we go into a New Year, it is wonderful to rejoice that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). But we have something even more to look forward to. For in teaching His disciples, Jesus comments about things that will happen in the regeneration (Matt 19:28). When we think of regeneration, we immediately think of new birth, but Jesus is referring to a day in the future when all things will be put right or regenerated. We are the first fruits of His plans, but one day everything will be made right Now we can be made right with God and empowered to live a holy and righteous life, but there are still many things in this world that are not right. But this world will not, indeed cannot, continue as it is. Twice God clearly states that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. Firstly, through Isaiah around 700years before Christ:

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth .. (Isa 65:17a)

And then secondly through the apostle John around 100 years after Christ’s birth:

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. (Rev 21:1a)

And this is a wonderful place for John tells us later in the same chapter that there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles…(Rev 21:27a). Make sure that you are properly prepared for this new heaven and new earth!

Have a Happy New Year, as we look forward to a very Happy Eternity!!