Originally posted by galveston75
The Bible also promises us that new scrolls will be opened in the future. So no telling what we will be told of our earth and of the universe. We all have the natural wonderment of how things work and of our creator himself. And the Bible promises life everlasting on the earth for all who obey him and do the few simple things he ask of us.
Thankyou for your compliment on my post.
And I would add that I fully agree that we as of yet do not know all that God has in store for the creation.
My opinion is that thereis a large amount of real estate that He probably has use for though I do not know in what way.
But this is the point that I wish to inform you of in particular.
There is a difference between one living everlastingly and one having the
eternal life which is in Christ.
Both mean a duration which is endless. That is a given. But the angels have an everlasting life. They do not have the
eternal life that is in Christ.
Adam and Eve were created with an everlasting life as far as I have been able to see. They never had
eternal life as it was available to them had they eaten of the tree of life.
Further, further now. In eternity future there will be human beings who will have an everlasting life. But they are not born again, are not sons of God, are not constituents of the New Jerusalem, and do not have the eternal life which is in the Son.
These people are the nations spoken of as living around the New Jerusalem who walk in its light. They are restored to be as Adam was before his fall - innocent and with an everlasting human life. They are not the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose to have sons with His own divine life - the eternal life which is God Himself.
God created multitudes of angels who would live forever. God created man though, to receive God Himself into his being to be mingled with God. And this is the eternal life promised to those who receive the Son of God.
To create a being that lives forever is not hard to God. He made perhaps millions of angels to live forever. To create a creature that can become "organically" united and mingled and blended with God Himself is His POEMA (Greek) - His
"masterpiece".
This being He has to work Himself into them. This being He has to wrought His life into their life. He has to dispense Himself into them. And this is the eternal purpose of God.
I am trying to get you to see beyond simply the blessing of unending longevity. The real ultimate blessing in the Bible is to be mingled with the uncreated and eternal Person, the Triune God Himself.
What is this if not mingling -
"He who is JOINED to the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17)
That is MINGLING galveston.
What is this if not mingling?
"In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." (John 14:20)
That is a mingling of God and man. That is utter interweaving of God with His saved and redeemed people. He is in the Father. They are in Him. And He is in them.
This is beyond everlasting longevity. This is Jehovah Himself uniting in life with man.