My Journey to Life - Daily Study Guide

Q3. What is the relationship between heaven and the new earth?

Picture: Q3. What is the relationship between heaven and the new earth? JTLD 389.1

When Jesus comes again to earth, all the righteous dead will be resurrected and ascend to heaven with Him and the righteous living. After a thousand years (see Lesson #27, The Millennium), God’s throne inside the New Jerusalem, descends to Planet Earth, splitting the Mount of Olives. At the very site where Jesus made His final choice to die on our behalf, the New Jerusalem, the capital of God’s universal kingdom, is established for eternity. JTLD 389.2

After the final destruction of all taint of sin, Jesus recreates the earth. The new earth then, is this recreated earth, not some alien place. It is new in that God will remove from the earth every blemish that sin has caused. JTLD 389.3

• Bible Discovery: Matthew 5:5; Isaiah 2:2; 24:23; Zechariah 14:4, 10, 11; John 14:1-3; 2 Peter 3:10-13; 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17; Revelation 20:4, 6; 21:1, 3, 5
• Further Reading: Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 674.1, 3