Look Forward
Cups awaiting guest for a tea party.
These are the strangest of times. It hit me last night, as I was knitting Easter eggs, right now we don't know what we can look forward to? Pulling up my March/April calendar I found myself deleting event after event.
The change began two weeks ago as our only winter getaway was cancelled. This Sunday was supposed to be my husband's ordination and the house was to be filled with family and friends. The long awaited wedding of the daughter of a life long friend....cancelled because no more than ten can gather. Birthday parties, sporting events, graduations, grandparents' day at schools, church and maybe even Easter Sunday service, celebrations of births and even farewells at funerals will not be held.
No one knows when dates can once again be put on our calendars.
God's Word tells us that no one, but the Father, knows when Jesus will return, but it's a given. We can definitely look forward to that day and in the mean time we need not grow anxious, but trust in the Lord and his plan.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."
Matthew 24:35-37
A reader just emailed with a great question. what does Jesus mean that "heaven and earth will pass away"? She wrote, "I thought believers were going to heaven?"
Here is a Biblically based answer from GotQuestions.org.
Answer: The Bible consistently warns us that this world will not last forever. “Heaven and earth will pass away,” Jesus said in Matthew 24:35. His statement was in the context of end times’ prophecies and the eternal nature of Jesus’ words: “My words will never pass away.” This means that trusting Jesus is wiser than trusting anything in this world.
Jesus also refers to the passing away of heaven and earth in Matthew 5:18. In Revelation 21:1, John writes of a new heaven and a new earth in the eternal state, having seen that “the first heaven and the first earth had passed away” (cf. Isaiah 65:17 and 2 Peter 3:13). To “pass away” is to disappear or be no more. This refers to the physical heaven and earth—the material world and all it contains—but not to the spirits/souls of the inhabitants of those places. Scripture is clear that people will outlast the current material universe, some in a state of eternal bliss and some in a state of eternal misery, and that the current universe will be replaced by another that will never know the contamination of sin.
God's Word tells us that no one, but the Father, knows when Jesus will return, but it's a given. We can definitely look forward to that day and in the mean time we need not grow anxious, but trust in the Lord and his plan.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."
Matthew 24:35-37
A reader just emailed with a great question. what does Jesus mean that "heaven and earth will pass away"? She wrote, "I thought believers were going to heaven?"
Here is a Biblically based answer from GotQuestions.org.
Answer: The Bible consistently warns us that this world will not last forever. “Heaven and earth will pass away,” Jesus said in Matthew 24:35. His statement was in the context of end times’ prophecies and the eternal nature of Jesus’ words: “My words will never pass away.” This means that trusting Jesus is wiser than trusting anything in this world.
Jesus also refers to the passing away of heaven and earth in Matthew 5:18. In Revelation 21:1, John writes of a new heaven and a new earth in the eternal state, having seen that “the first heaven and the first earth had passed away” (cf. Isaiah 65:17 and 2 Peter 3:13). To “pass away” is to disappear or be no more. This refers to the physical heaven and earth—the material world and all it contains—but not to the spirits/souls of the inhabitants of those places. Scripture is clear that people will outlast the current material universe, some in a state of eternal bliss and some in a state of eternal misery, and that the current universe will be replaced by another that will never know the contamination of sin.
