Come along Friends, let’s try to imagine,
Life on Earth as The Lord God envisioned,
At the start of mankind’s seventh age:
Pre-flood, Post-flood, Post-cross, (that’s the Church Age),
Tribulation, Millennial Reign, (that’s when Jesus will return),
Post-Millennial Reign, Eternity, the 7 ages I discern.
When time is over, and forever has begun,
The former Earth is gone, there is a brand new one!
Solar systems blackholes and galaxies …dissolved!
And like a scroll that’s rolled, the universe …convolved!
There’s a moon, but no sun, no stars in the skies!
The Lord is THE LIGHT, the forever ‘Sonrise’. 1
There...
The New Jerusalem is on a high mountain,
In splendid details, John wrote in Revelation.
The sides and height of this city are the same!
On gemstone foundations are the Apostles’ names.
There, Jesus is The Lord, on God’s Throne as King.
In this world He’s The LIGHT, forever GLOWING. 2
Around the mountain, all across the terrain,
North, south, east and west, all the land is a plain!
There’re no seas or oceans anywhere I look.
There is just one river, with streams creeks and brooks.
And the source of that river is very well known.
As I learned in the rapture, it flows from His Throne!!! 3
All across this new world, this is what I see:
Two groups of people, here in eternity.
Folks God created, even those never born,
Are here and alive, in their ‘forever form’!
Saints from all ages are here in new nations,
Each one performing assigned righteous passions. 4
But there’s a dark place, and to great depths it extends.
And from deep down within, eternal smoke ascends!
The stench is sooo pungent, it’s like sulfur on fire,
Like what I imagine, from a funeral pyre.
To see what is burning, I move close to the edge.
Folks who’re more brave I am go out on the ledge!
Arghhhh!!!
When to the edge of the abyss, at last I arrive,
I see the corpses of dead folks, who are yet alive!
For all eternity, they all will survive,
Deep in the lake of fire, their ‘worm’ never dies!
There’s not one of these folks, who have on their foreheads,
The mark of The Lord, so they’re not His, it is said. 5
So who are these folks, down in this vast pit?
They’re demons made human, and folks they tricked.
They all joined together, in sin’s muck and mire, thick.
Refusing to repent, it was Jesus they ticked!
They rejected the price He paid for their sin.
They spurned The Father’s Christ, now they’re …with their kin. 6
Most of the folks to whom in life I had witnessed,
In Christ had no interest, not even the slightest.
Standing there, though tears I tried to cry,
I couldn’t, not even one, and here’s why:
Jesus wiped away all our tears, just like He said.
Thus, no sorrow for folks who, …in hell, ‘made their beds’. 7
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1 Convolve – to roll up or coil. See: Isaiah 34:4, 66:23, 2 Peter 3:10-13, Hebrews 1:10. For my understanding of previous versions of Earth (1 - 4), see: Anti-Christ: Summary Review (Part 5)
2 See: Revelation 21:10 - 23 and 22:1-3 NB: One Throne of God (Spirit) and Jesus (human), proving they are One. During both the Millennial Reign age and throughout eternity, a remnant of Jews will embrace Jesus as The Messiah and God.
3 See: Zechariah 14:10 (Millennial Reign) and Revelation 22:1 (new Earth). I intuit both in The Millennial Reign of Christ, and also on the brand new Earth The Lord promises to create, all the land could be one plain, except Jerusalem will be high and lifted up. If so, several aspects (not all) of The Millennial Reign may be a foretaste of the new, eternal Earth. See also: Global Earthquake (Series)
4 See: Revelation 2, 3, 20:11-15 and 21:24. ‘Never born’ refers to babies who were conceived, but never born.
5 See: Isaiah 66:24, Mark 9:44-48, Revelation 3:12, 14:9-11 and 22:4. Four times, very clearly, as if to ensure we get the message, The Lord iterates His point, 'their worm never dies' warning, in Isaiah 66: 22-24 and in Mark 9:42-48. There are some wild interpretations of the concept, ‘their worm does not die’. Try to interpret it in light of Job 25:6, Psalm 22:6 and Isaiah 41:14. I seriously doubt The Lord is signifying there will be immortal worms in hell! Rather, I believe He is inferring people in hell will be immortal beings, fully able to perceive, and to feel pains, pangs and eternal regrets for their earthly, God-rejecting lifestyles … forever.
6 See: The Goshen Effect (Series), especially Part 5
7 Since the word, hell, is not found in The Book of Revelation, here it refers to the lake of fire that burns eternally with sulfur. See: Psalm 116:8, Isaiah 25:8, Jeremiah 31:16, Ezekiel 24:15-16 (The Lord’s pattern established), and finally Revelation 21:4
