Survivors

"I will make new heavens and the new earth," Isaiah 66:22.

Who plans to craft this new universe? God. Creator God will surely do it. But first: this line holds wonders, both of a glorious future as well as of a severe judgment against the present universal order. God will cleanse all hypocrisy out of those claiming to follow God. God will send survivors of the cleansing out into the world to tell God's glory. Indeed, God declared that he would come to gather every nation and language to witness that glory. Those survivors would then collect all Jehovah's scattered people back into God's house. These people who followed God will never forget the devastating judgment that birthed them into their present future. God himself will guarantee their eternal life. Sky kingdom.

When we visit with a brother or sister today, we bow in humble awe of the Creator who created wonderful plans for his people. And, together, we confess thanksgivings for grace that forgives sin and creates for his own a new cosmos.