Peter Barnes | Revelation 21:1-8
SERMON NOTES
The New Heaven and the New Earth
(Revelation 21:1-8)
– one person dies every second.
– Isa.65:17; 66:22
1. Everything will be fulfilled in newness.
(a) a new creation – 21:1, 4, 8; reversal of Gen.3:16-19
(b) a new Jerusalem – 21:2; Heb.12:22-24
(c) a new covenant – 21:3, 7; fulfilling Lev.26:11-12; see Jer.31:33; Ezek.37:27; Matt.5:8; 1 John 3:2
2. These promises are true.
– 21:5-6; 22:6; Acts 26:24-25
– Alpha and Omega (Rev.1:8, 17-18; 22:13)
3. The new heaven and the new earth is freely offered to you.
– 21:6; 22:17; Matt.11:28-30
Adoniram Judson: ‘when Christ calls me home, I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from his school.’