Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness (2 Peter 3:13).
When Albert Einstein died, one wrote of him in a great magazine: "His only instruments were a pencil and a scratch pad on which he would jot down rows of mathematical symbols. Out of these obscure symbols came the most explosive ideas of the century." Do you fully understand his famous equation E=mc2? Neither do I. But the bomb exploded just the same. He died before his unified-field theory was proved, but we remember he said, "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos."
In the third chapter of Second Peter we find an inspired picture of heavens exploding, and elements melting with fervent heat (verse 12). Then comes our promise: "Nevertheless"--that is, in spite of all this, in spite of a universe dissolved not only into atoms but into neutrons, deutrons, positrons, mesons, et cetera, ad infinitum--"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." God's promise is stronger than the crash of electrons, and God will guide the redeemed to their appointed places in the new earth, surrounded by its new heaven.
And the new heavens and new earth will endure forever. That is the definite plan of God. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord" (Isa. 66:22, 23).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures" (Ps. 36:8).
When Albert Einstein died, one wrote of him in a great magazine: "His only instruments were a pencil and a scratch pad on which he would jot down rows of mathematical symbols. Out of these obscure symbols came the most explosive ideas of the century." Do you fully understand his famous equation E=mc2? Neither do I. But the bomb exploded just the same. He died before his unified-field theory was proved, but we remember he said, "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos."
In the third chapter of Second Peter we find an inspired picture of heavens exploding, and elements melting with fervent heat (verse 12). Then comes our promise: "Nevertheless"--that is, in spite of all this, in spite of a universe dissolved not only into atoms but into neutrons, deutrons, positrons, mesons, et cetera, ad infinitum--"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." God's promise is stronger than the crash of electrons, and God will guide the redeemed to their appointed places in the new earth, surrounded by its new heaven.
And the new heavens and new earth will endure forever. That is the definite plan of God. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord" (Isa. 66:22, 23).
MEDITATION PRAYER: "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures" (Ps. 36:8).
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