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The New Heaven & the New Earth
Is God dwelling with His people today?
If so,
Revelation 21 and 22 are a PRESENT reality.

Revelation 21:3
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Jesus walked this out and then gave Us this task as His New temple.
Are we walking it out?

point one

John was told who would be the witnesses, characters and time frame.

Rev 1:1,

1 This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,

2 who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
G1401 Doulos

1. invoulentary a slave.

2. of necessity a bond servant

3. figurativly a voulentary, fully devoted servant

kjv bond (man) servant

Matthew 21:33-45

33 “Listen to another parable:
There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower.
Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.

34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.

35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.

37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’

39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.

point 2

The time for the revelation servants was near when the revelation was written

Revelation 1:3

3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Tribulation in Judea

Matthew 24:21

21 For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will again.

Matthew 24:15-20

Perilous Times
15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place—let the reader understand—

16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

17 Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get things out of his house.

18 And whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

19 But woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

20 Moreover, pray that when you flee, it will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.

point 3

John recieved the revelation during the tribulation

Revelation 1:9

The Patmos Vision
9 I, John, your brother and (((fellow participant in the tribulation)) and kingdom and perseverance in Jesus,
was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

point 4

The messages were sent to the 7 exsisting churches which were to witness the events

Revelation 1:11,19

11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:19

19 Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.

point 5

7 Church ages?

Are any of these Near?

Ephesus 52-170 (153)yrs 31-100 (69)yrs

Symrna 170-312 (142) yrs 100-313 (213)yrs

Pergamos 312-606 (294) 313-538 (225)

Thyatira 606-1520 (914) 538-1560 (1022)

Sardis 1520-1750 (230) 1560-1798 (238)

Philidalphia 1750-1906(156) 1798-1844 (46)

Laodicea 1906-? (114) 1844-? (176)

Point 6

The Revelation indicated Jesus was coming in the time of the 7 churches

Revelation 2:5

5 Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the deeds you did at first;
or else I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

Revelation 2:16

16 Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Revelation 2:25

25 Nevertheless what you have, hold firmly until I come.

Revelation 3:3

3 So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent.
Then if you are not alert,
I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

Revelation 3:11

11 I am coming quickly; hold firmly to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

Point 7

The Revelation portrayed the then coming destruction of Jeruselem

Revelation 11:1

The Two Witnesses
11 Then there was given to me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.

Revelation 11:2

2 Leave out the courtyard which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations; and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:8

8 And their dead bodies will lie on the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

TRODDEN

Luke 21:24

24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations;
and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Luke 21:20-23

20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

21 Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are inside the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;

22 because these are days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled.

23 Woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days;
for there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people;

Isaiah 1:1

Rebellion of God’s People

1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 1:10

God Has Had Enough
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers of Sodom;
Listen to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah!

Exodus 1:3

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Galatians 4:25

25 Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is enslaved with her children.

Matthew 23:37-38

Grieving over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her!
How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

38 Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

Matthew 23:33-36

33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

34 “Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify,
and some of them you will flog in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

35 so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah,
the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Point 8

The Revelation potrayed the judgement of Apostate Isreal

Revelation 17:1

The Doom of Babylon

17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying,
“Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

Revelation 17:4

4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls,
holding in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality,

Revelation 17:6

6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

Acts 22:20

20 And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing nearby and approving, and watching over the cloaks of those who were killing him.’

Exodus 28:4-5

4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a tunic of checkered work,
a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that he may serve as priest to Me.

5 They shall take the gold, the violet, the purple, the scarlet material, and the fine linen.

Exodus 28:17-20

17 And you shall [a]mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

20 and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.

Numbers 15:38

38 “Speak to the children of Israel:
Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.

Matthew 12:45

45 Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they come in and live there;
and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

Daniel 9:27

27 And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;
and on the wing of abominations will come the one who makes desolate, until a complete destruction,
one that is decreed, gushes forth on the one who [d]makes desolate.”

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses on Disobedience

15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully
all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Point 9 The revelation portrayed God was about to depart from Isreal

Revelation 18:1-2

18 Then I saw another angel descending from heaven, possessing great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his radiance and splendor.

2 And he shouted with a mighty voice, She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen!

She has become a resort and dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every loathsome spirit, an abode for every filthy and detestable bird.

Revelation 18:4

4 I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues.

Revelation 18:20

20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints (God’s people) and apostles and prophets [who were martyred],
because God has executed vengeance for you [through righteous judgment] upon her.”

Point 10

The time was at hand

Revelation 22:6-7

You Are Invited to be Blessed

6 Then he said to me,
“These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel [as a representative] to show His bond-servants the things that must soon take place.

7 “And behold, I am coming quickly.
Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired)
is the one who heeds and takes to heart and remembers the words of the prophecy [that is, the predictions, consolations, and warnings]
contained in this book (scroll).”

Revelation 22:10

10 And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.

Matthew 24:34-35

34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.

35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
Matthew 24:

29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

I Corinthians 15:3

that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

(((5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.))))

6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.

((7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,))

8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

****12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead,
how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.

25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

27 For he “has put everything under his feet.

29 Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead?

If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;

43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.

47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.

48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.

50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality,
then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

When we realize that the “end times” was in the time of ISRAEL Sinai covenant coming to an end!
OLD TESTAMENT ( old world) was burned away… (destruction of the temple!)

In CHRIST WE ARE THE NEW
We have inherited ALL THE NEW!
Therefore if anyone is in Christ
[that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit];
the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].-2 Cor 5:17

Satan has ZERO power!
HE IS NOT THE god OF THIS WORLD! JESUS WON IT BACK at the cross & gave it to HIS CHILDREN —The NEW WILL & TESTAMENT!

-For where there is a will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established, For a will and testament takes effect [only] at death, since it is never in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

So even the first covenant was not put in force without [the shedding of] blood.
-Heb 9:16-18

The theif (flesh) comes to kill, steal & destroy- but CHRIST (Holy Spirit) came to give us life abundantly!! -John 10:10

Will the Earth Be Destroyed?
The Bible's answer No,
planet Earth will never be destroyed, burned in fire, or replaced.
The Bible teaches that God created the earth to be inhabited forever.
"The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it."
“The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it.”—Psalm 37:29.
“[God] has established the earth on its foundations; it will not be moved from its place forever and ever.”—Psalm 104:5.
“The earth remains forever.”—Ecclesiastes 1:4.
“The One who formed the earth,
its Maker who firmly established it, . . .
did not create it simply for nothing,
but formed it to be inhabited.”
—Isaiah 45:18.
Will humans ruin the earth?
God will not allow humans to ruin the earth completely by pollution, warfare, or any other means. Rather, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”
(Revelation 11:18)
How will he accomplish that?
God will replace human governments, which have been unable to protect the earth, with a perfect heavenly Kingdom.
(Daniel 2:44; Matthew 6:9, 10)
That Kingdom will be ruled by God’s Son, Jesus Christ.
(Isaiah 9:6, 7)
When on earth, Jesus exercised miraculous powers over natural elements.
(Mark 4:35-41)
As the King of God’s Kingdom,
Jesus will exercise full control over earth and its elements.
He will re-create, or renew,
conditions on earth, making them similar to those that existed in the garden of Eden.—
Matthew 19:28; Luke 23:43.
Doesn’t the Bible teach that the earth will be burned in fire?
No, it does not. Such a misconception often comes from a misunderstanding of 2 Peter 3:7, which says:
“The heavens and the earth that now exist are reserved for fire.” Consider two important points that help us understand the meaning of those words:
The Bible uses the terms “heavens,”
“earth,” and “fire” to refer to more than one thing.
For example,
Genesis 11:1 says: “All the earth continued to be of one language.” Here, “earth” refers to human society.
The context of 2 Peter 3:7
indicates the meaning of the heavens, earth, and fire mentioned there.
Verses 5 and 6 draw a parallel with the Flood of Noah’s day.
On that occasion,
an ancient world was destroyed, yet our planet did not disappear. Instead,
the Flood wiped out a violent society, or “earth.”
(Genesis 6:11)

It also destroyed a kind of “heavens”—
the people who ruled over that earthly society. Thus, wicked people were destroyed,
not our planet.

Noah and his family survived the destruction of that world and inhabited the earth after the Flood.—
Genesis 8:15-18.

Similar to the waters of the Flood, the destruction, or “fire,” of 2

Peter 3:7 will bring an end to the world of wicked people, not to planet Earth.
God promises “new heavens and a new earth”
in which “righteousness is to dwell.”

(2 Peter 3:13)

A “new earth,” or new human society, will be ruled over by “new heavens,” or new leadership—

God’s Kingdom. Under the rule of that Kingdom, the earth will become a peaceful paradise.—

Revelation 21:1-4.

I have a serious question for All the true believers in Jesus Christ,
I know many of you as well as myself (had)- have been anxiously awaiting the rapture but could we all possibly been deceived?
I know the pre tribbers have been questioning why we're still here with all the things that have been occurring in the world.
We also have a group of believers that believe that we will be here during the tribulation but then Jesus will come stomp out Satan and form his kingdom and thousand year reign here on Earth
(which I thought was true as well)
Let's not forget the large amount of Jewish people there that are waiting the first arrival of their Messiah which Christians believe already came who is their lord Jesus Christ.
If the Jewish people could be deceived what makes you think that the gentile people couldn't be as well?
And it definitely got me to thinking to where I have come to the conclusion that we are all being deceived in one way or another.
Man has made prophecy about themselves and the antichrist ie. rapture and the arrival of the ac.

The Lord Jesus Christ said he came to fulfill the law and the prophets.
I truly believe there is no missing week that has waited 2,000 years for the Lord to complete.
The sacrifice was cut off when the Messiah was hung on the tree.
After His disciples preached to the Jews for three and a half years and then went out to the gentiles for another three and a half years completing prophecy.

Look into the Jewish war also you can look into the writings of Josephus flavius antiquities of jews.
God bless you

Everyone is either waiting for the arrival of the Messiah or for the return of the Messiah and the New Kingdom but the Lord said in

Hebrews 9:28
“So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time,

not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”

Luke 17:20

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come,

he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke 16:16

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Daniel 2:44
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom,
which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Ezekiel 12:21 States

21 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

22 “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel:
‘The days go by,
and every vision fails’?

23 Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.’
But say to them: ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.

24 For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,

25 because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak,
and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’ ”

26 Furthermore, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

27 “Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’

28Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘None of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled, declares the Lord GOD.’ ”

original link found on New Kosmos Videocast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVqbNZvz4RM

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