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Rev 21:5  #daily devotions # scriptures # bible studies

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new.”

This is the revelation that John received when he was brought up to heaven and he received the full message for the End Times. In this scripture God is telling John that He is making everything new. What do we understand from this? This would refer to the future when WW III would be over and the world would have gone through vast destruction upon the earth as a result of war, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and severe flooding all over the earth.

What we know is that the whole earth will become a very unliveable place and there will be famine all over the earth after the natural disasters that would come and create unimaginable destruction worldwide. Eyes have not seen and ears have not heard of what disasters that would be coming ever since the beginning of the earth.

What would happen to the people upon the earth? The non-Christians will have no hope as they would fall into Hell where there will be eternal judgement and torment. Billions of people will perish in hell. At the final battle in the valley of Megiddo we are told that over 2 billion people will die when Jesus personally come against them from all over the antichrist nations.

The question we may ask is how can we escape from the wrath of God which He had planned for the world? In fact God had already given us the escape route. He sends His Son to earth to grant this escape from Hell to all men. Jesus told us in John 3: 3 ..verily I say to you, except a man is born again, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. And again in verse Vs 5 … except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. So Jesus had revealed the salvation plan of God to us. There has to be a renewing of our lives before we can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

God says that He is going to make everything new, a new heaven and a new earth and the people who are going to inherit this would be a people who would be renewed. They would not be living in sin as before because they would have been renewed in the mind and their spirit man. Those who would inherit the new earth and new heaven would not be the same carnal people that are around today. They would be literally changed through the regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

This is what we read in Titus 3:  5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Ghost. There will be a whole new generation of people who would be purified and sanctified by the Holy Spirit and they would be the saints of the New Earth and new Heaven.

In the natural this would be very difficult but we live in the Spirit and by the Holy Spirit. When we totally surrender our lives to Him, He will take it and transform our lives to become a new creature. To explain this Paul wrote about this mystery in 2 Cor 5: 17 therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away, behold, all things are become new.

This transformation is not instant; in fact it is a life long journey and we need to choose to live purposefully in the Spirit and for Christ. We need to ask Jesus to change our hearts and create a new heart and a new spirit within us so that from now we would continually progress forward and onward into achieving a transformation that would change us into a new man for Christ.