“And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament” –
Genesis 1:7
Did you know this isn’t world that God designed for
us? The environment we live in now is
nothing like the one God designed when He created this place. We are just now starting to learn a little
about what this planet looked like when God originally made it.
Did you know that the first people actually hung out with
God on a daily basis? At that time,
people were never designed to die. People
had no knowledge at all of evil or sin. Lucifer
(satan) was a good guy….one of the top angels.
Snakes used to have legs. Lions,
tigers and dinosaurs were pets. Nothing
alive on earth ate meat.
Did you know, even after the garden of eden, we used to
live for 900 years? Did you know we
could run for miles and never get tired?
Did you know most of the ocean was actually inside the ground that we
walk on now, and that the oceans were not salt water? That means there were no deserts. Did you know we used to live alongside the
dinosaurs and that we used to heal much faster when we were hurt?
Who cares, right? That
was then and this is now. The Flood
destroyed the world we know and we can never have that back.
Not true.
Did you know that, after the rapture, 7 year tribulation,
Armageddon, the 1000 year reign and the final judgment, that this world will be
destroyed and God will start over with a whole new planet? It’s all coming back.
Here’s the kicker for me personally. All these things are cool, but the biggest
thing I’m looking forward to at that time is losing the knowledge of good and
evil. Every time I start a new day
today, it’s almost depressing to realize that there’s pretty much no way I will
make it through the day without falling short one way or the other, leaving
varying amounts of regret at the end of every day. I liken it to offending my parents to the
point of making them cry every single day.
Once I lose the knowledge of evil, as we were originally designed before
the first people ate the fruit of that tree, I will never have to worry about
this again. If you really think about
it, that is awesome!
So, here’s how I envision a typical day in the “new earth”
8am: I wake up
9am: I’m pumped
about that fact that I can do nothing wrong (ofcourse, this is not actually
possible as I’m not even aware of right or wrong, but I’m going with it anyway)
10am: meet up with
God.
Me: “sup God? Wanna hang out today? The angels just helped me put a stage 7 solar
kit on the Harley today….thing does 0-60 in 2 flat! Wanna ride?”
God: “what’s Steph
up to today?"
Me: “oh, she’s gonna go scrapbooking today with a few
other people. She’s all pumped about
finding out that she can cut shapes out of paper by merely speaking to it”
God: “oh
yeah, I've done that before. It is pretty cool. Well, maybe later rick. i promised john that I’d play shuffleboard
with the mountains at noon and I told suzy I’d go riding dinosuars with her at
3.”
Me: “ok, that’s
cool. Maybe I’ll see you around
then. I’m gonna go see if Gary wants to ride
snowmobiles until then”
It just sounds awesome to me.
So, for now, the best advice is probably to stay the
course. It’s tough to stay calm though
when the final pieces are almost in place for the next age to begin here.
