Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea no longer existed.
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Isaiah 27:1At that time the Lord will take his sharp, large, and strong sword, and punish Leviathan, the slithering serpent, and Leviathan, the coiled serpent, and he will kill the sea dragon.
Isaiah 65:17Look! I'm going to create new heavens and a new earth. The former things won't be remembered—they won't cross anyone's mind!
Daniel 7:3Four very large beasts were coming up from the sea, every one of them different.
2 Peter 3:13But as for us, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth that God has promised where everything is good and right.
Revelation 20:11Then I saw a large white throne with the one who sits on it. Heaven and earth vanished, and they were never seen again.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:1
Hitherto the prophecy of this book has presented to us a very remarkable mixture of light and shade, prosperity and adversity, mercy and judgment, in the conduct of divine Providence towards the church in the world: now, at the close of all, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away; a new world now appears, the former having passed away. Some are willing to understand all that is said in these last two chapters of the state of the church even here on earth, in the glory of the latter days; but others, more… Read the whole commentary →