Nothing Bad (Psalm 91)
03/11/20 • 25 min
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The Restoration of All Things, Pt. 2
Handout here
What we say about the end is what we say about God - destroyer or redeemer?
2 Peter 3:8-13 - Found through Fire
Differing translations of v. 10
Textual criticism and New Testament manuscripts
"Revealed" better reading than "burned up"
Fire as instrument of purifying and revealing
"The elements" - powers not periodic table
A new heavens and earth was justice happens
Romans 8:18-23 - The Redemption of Creation
What problem does Jesus’ death and resurrection deal with?
Creation subjected to death (by humanity)
The curse of Genesis 3:17-19
Creation in childbirth, new born from old
Implications for creation care
All things reconciled in Colossians 1:19-20 & Ephesians 1:10
NEXT WEEK: How the 'go to heaven' passages fit in
Next Episode
'Heaven is Home' Passages
Handout available here
Heaven as home concept more from songs than Scripture
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - Coming and Meeting
- Traditional reading: Jesus comes back and takes us to heaven
- Not 'The Rapture'
- Paul's pastoral purpose
- Left hanging in the air
- Parousia (royal visit) & apantesis (meeting and escorting the king)
Philippians 3:20-21 - Citizenship in Heaven
- Traditional reading: Citizens of heaven = heaven is home
- Citizenship in the Roman Empire & Philippi
- Jesus comes here from there (not vice versa)
John 14:1-3 - Jesus Prepares a Place
- What's not said
- Translations of 'dwelling places' (monai)
- Where/what is 'my Father's house'? (Answer is less clear than we assume)
- The place is prepared in heaven now to be revealed here later
The pastoral point: We are not abandoned (and neither is any of God's good creation)
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