There are new heavens and a new earth.—2 Pet. 3:13.
The “new heavens” is God’s heavenly Kingdom, which was established in the year 1914. This royal government is made up of Christ Jesus and his 144,000 corulers. In the book of Revelation, these chosen ones are portrayed as “the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Rev. 21:1, 2, 22-24) Just as earthly Jerusalem was the seat of government in ancient Israel, the New Jerusalem and her Bridegroom make up the government of the new system of things. This celestial city will ‘come down out of heaven’ by directing its attention to the earth. The “new earth” refers to the new earthly society of humans who will have demonstrated their willing submission to God’s Kingdom. The spiritual paradise that God’s people enjoy even now will at last be in its rightful setting in that beautiful “inhabited earth to come.”—Heb. 2:5. w10 7/15 1:10, 11
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