More on the Eternal Kingdom

In my last post I mentioned the New Jerusalem being in Orbit around the New Earth.  Here is why I believe that is the case.  3 times Revelation 3:12, 21:2 & 10 describes it as coming down out of Heaven.  In Revelation 21:24 it says the Nations of the earth will walk in its light.  If the New Jerusalem sits on the earth its light would not shine on one side of the planet.  Another relevant detail in Revelation 21:10 is John could see the New Jerusalem from the top of a mountain and it was moving, “descending out of heaven from God.”  He could see it because it is huge, a cube some 1,400 miles wide, deep and high. 

Another key observation is the Eternal Kingdom (Heaven) has a growing population.  That was first revealed in Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.  All the resurrected believers from this universe will be living in the New Jerusalem (John 14:1-4).  According to Jesus Christ resurrected saints do not marry which would indicate we won’t be making babies (Matthew 22:30).  And since that resurrection is completed before the 1,000-year Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20:4-5) these nations of corporal humans are likely the believing survivors of the Millennial Kingdom. 

Ok, that is my opinion and just to be fair, there are a lot of people who don’t agree with me on that.  I believe I have some support from the Apostle Paul’s discussion of resurrection in 1 Corinthians.  He lays out the order of the 1st resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:22-24 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.  “Those who are Christ’s at His coming” matches the timing of Revelation 20:4-5 as the completion of this 1st resurrection.  Nothing is said about what happens to the believers who live through the Millennial Kingdom.  We therefore have some freedom here to speculate as to their future.  My opinion is they enter the Eternal Kingdom as these nations mentioned in Revelation 21:24. 

Revelation 22:1-2 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  The Tree of life, the one Adam could have eaten from and lived forever, is in the New Jerusalem.  And its leaves are for the healing of the Nations.  It just could be that those people living on the New Earth will live forever.  And that is why the Universe is so big.  A Kingdom that grows forever will need a lot of space to settle its eternal growing population. 
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Hope you will be there with us!  You can be if you believe in Jesus Christ as the redeemer and giver of life.