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 no moon and 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.
Its dimensions suggest a terraced formation.
The 12 apostles’ names adorn its foundations.
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 in the Millennium, 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 SO pungent, it’s like sulfur on fire,
Like what I imagine, from a funeral pyre.
To see what's burning, I move to the edge.
Folks braver than me, go out on the ledge!
Arghhhh!!!
When to the edge, I finally I arrive,
I see the folks who burn, yet who are alive!
Through eternity, they will survive,
But off all things GOOD, they'll be deprived!
On their foreheads, none of these folks have this:
The mark of The Lord, so they are not His. 5
Who are these beings, down in this vast pit?!
Demons made human, and people they tricked.
They all joined together, in sin’s muck and mire,
(Thank God I repented, and escaped this fire!)
People spurned the price Christ paid for their sin.
Now here they burn …with their devilish kin. 6
Folks in life to whom I witnessed,
About Christ, had no interest,
Standing there, though tears I tried to cry,
I couldn’t, not even one, and here’s why:
Christ wiped away all tears of us who obeyed.
Thus, there is no sorrow for the CHOICE they made. 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 21:9 - 27 and 22:1-5. NB: One Throne of God (Spirit) and Jesus (immortal human), proving they are One. During both the Millennial Reign age and throughout eternity, a remnant of mortal Jews will embrace Jesus as The Messiah and God, possibly fulfilling Exodus 19:6. Since parts of Jerusalem today are terraced, I intuit the New Jerusalem on the eternal Earth might be highly terraced, perhaps like some of the places I have seen in Yemen and elsewhere. See: Ephemeral then Eternal Earth (Series) and The Bride of Christ (Series).
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 21, ‘Never born’ refers to babies who were conceived and received 'spirit', but who were never born. I believe life begins at conception, and when The Lord assigns a human sperm to fertilize a human egg, He endows the embryo with spirit.
5 See: Revelation 7:3, 9:4, 14:1 and 20:4. Are you thus 'spiritually marked'?
6 See: Revelation 14:9-12 and 20:11-15.
7 See: Revelation 7:7 and 21:4.
