EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/28/2026
9:47 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-3
“Eternal Perspective”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
2 Peter
3:12-13
Message of the verses: “12
waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which
the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will
melt as they burn! 13 But according to
his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which
righteousness dwells.” (ESV)
I continue to work on these verses from above, and it
is my hope to finish this section this evening.
John MacArthur writes “The word
rendered new (kainos) means ‘new in quality,’ ‘different,’ or ‘unlike
anything previously known.’ Thus the new
heavens and earth will be far more than merely new in time or chronology; they
will also be new in character—a realm in which righteousness dwells. Dwells (katoikeo) means ‘to settle
down and be at home,’ or ‘to take up permanent, comfortable residence.’ In God’s new order, righteousness will enjoy
a permanent, perfect existence. The
apostle John further described the wonder of that new universe:
1
¶ Then 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. 2 And I saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud
voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with
man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will
be with them as their God. 4 He will
wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall
there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have
passed away."
“22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its
temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to
shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
24 By its light will the nations walk,
and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day—and
there will be no night there. 26 They
will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor
anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in
the Lamb’s book of life.” (Rev. 21:1-4;
22-27).
“On the
basis of all that God has in store for them, believers ought to live in
constant expectation—always looking for Christ’s return and continually viewing
everything in this life in light of their eternal destiny.”
Now this is the end of this section
we have been looking at for three days now, and to me this is a very important
section in the Word of God, as when you study it those who are true believers
in Jesus Christ know what will happen to them.
It will start with coming to know Christ as Savior and Lord while in the
Church age here on planet earth, next the Rapture of the Church will happen as
seen in a few different places in the New Testament, best seen in 1 Thessalonians
4:13-17 where we read “13 ¶ But we do not want you to be uninformed,
brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who
have no hope. 14 For since we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him
those who have fallen asleep. 15 For
this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are
left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen
asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will
descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and
with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive, who are left,
will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,
and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore
encourage one another with these words.”
This highlighted verse 18 is
what I desire to do this evening.
Next while the Church is
in heaven The Judgment Seat of Christ will take place where believers will be
rewarded for what they have done while alive on planet earth during the church
age. My belief is that God has given
each member of the Church Spiritual Gifts and how they use them will be how
they are rewarded.
Next in Revelation
chapter 19 towards the middle of that chapter we will return with Jesus Christ
to planet earth to stop the war of Armageddon, which Christ will stop with the
sword that is in His mouth.
Then I believe that
Christ will set up the earth in a very similar way that it was when the earth
was first created as described in the first two chapters of Genesis.
Next Christ will
separate the sheep from the goats, as the sheep, (true believers) will go into
the Millennial Kingdom, and the goats will go into hell.
At the end of the
Millennial Kingdom Satan will be let out of his captivity and begin a rebellion
as he will gather the unbelievers from the earth and then he will be destroyed
and go back into the lake of fire.
Next all unbelievers
will be judged by the Lord, and it is my belief after studying this that they
will have a chance to show any good works, but none will be enough to cause them
to be saved, as they had that chance while on earth.
Next what we have been
studying will happen as this earth and all the universe will be destroyed as I
explained in an earlier post.
There will be a new
heaven and a new earth which God has created, as the heaven where He has
resided as because of the sinfulness of Satan and his demons were allowed to go
into it, thus a new one will be created.
Eternity will begin
after the New heaven, New Earth and New Jerusalem is created.
I hope that this has
been informative for all who read it.
1/28/2026 9:48 PM
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