Will We Inhabit Other Bodies? (Poem)

We’re pushing to select celestial bodies to inhabit,

Whether to mine minerals or just find a cleaner planet.

After raping the Earth, and then damaging her atmosphere,

Some wonder, ‘Will we just do the same beyond our stratosphere?!’

Science reports finding several possibly good candidates.

We’re honing technologies, and setting exploration dates.

International cooperation has greatly increased,

Compared to those early days when space rockets were first released.

All of this is being done under God’s ever watchful eye.

He alone will determine whether these plans of man ‘will fly.’ ¹

In His Book that chronicles our beginning and our ending,²

Let’s see what He says concerning all these things we’re pretending.

In His Book, it’s only Earth that serves as mankind’s center stage.

From start to finish, I see this written on page-after-page.

Yeah, there is mention of Heaven, and also of hell there, too,

But of mankind having another stage, there’s only one clue! ³

Celestial bodies were given to us for seasons and signs.⁴

No mention of them as natural resources for us to mine.

Just as o’er Earth’s natural resources much blood has been spilled,

Imagine headlines from space when, off Earth, the first man is killed!

As bloodshed increases from natural resource wars

we’ll have exported,

And celestial bodies are militarized,

not just purported, 

Pray tell, where ‘in the world’ would all of these bodies be buried??

Inter them ‘there’ or back on Earth? Who would care, or be worried?

Revelation says both the seas and hell will ‘give up their dead’,

At the end of the 6th age of history, that's what I read. 

Other than Earth, there's no mention of folk rising from elsewhere!

Of that fine point, I wonder if astronauts might be aware? 5

It's only the new, eternal Earth will we ALL inhabit:
One part a lake that's brimstone-lit; the other part GLORY-lit!

So if you think we’ll succeed in rearranging all God’s plans,

My Friend, you don’t understand the power of His Word and Hands.

We should be concerned over the extent of Earth‘s pollution.

But consider impact of The Lord’s punishment solution!

Earth will be unrecognizable when He gets through,

But then He will return and establish all things anew. 6

We should be concerned about natural resource depletion.

But consider His power and plans for resource repletion! 

Earth, recognizable, with new life and fresh purpose, supreme! 

Earth, ‘Under New Management’ by Jesus and His Saints, redeemed!

We don’t know whether He’ll allow our space forays to proceed,

Let’s just wait and see how He will respond to man’s resource greed.

For now, we know what He wrote, which we should study, not just read,

As we ponder when, from this Earth’s limits… we will ALL be freed.

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¹ Pun intended.
² The Bible.
³ Hell is a temporary place of torment for sinners, in their immortal spirit and soul form, pending their bodily resurrection event at the end of the 6th age of our history. They will appear before The Lord to be judged, then sentenced and cast into His brimstone-lit lake of fire, forever--as sentient, immortal beings, along with every devil, death and hell, itself. To understand where The Bible affirms hell will be, see: Hell: A Preview ((Series)

⁴ Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the Earth”; and it was so. (Genesis 1:14-15) Here, ‘lights’ refers to both gaseous stars and the planets and other bodies that reflect starlight.

⁵ Revelation 20:11-15.

⁶ See: The Millennial Reign (Series).