Heaven
Revelation 21:1-27
By Harold D. Dinsmore, M.Div.
Ó2008 Harold D. Dinsmore 

I Corinthians 2:9 says “However, as it is written: No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.”  Paul was quoting from Isaiah 64:4 and was speaking of the wonders of God’s grace both in this life and the life to come.

Verses 1-2 speak of heaven as a new creation.

In verse 1, he reminded his readers that we live in a world of time and space that is passing away.  Both Scripture and science agree that our present universe is temporal.  It is destined for extinction.  John, however, did not view this as an automatic process.  He envisioned God’s transformation of the present material world into the reality of the spiritual world through diving new creation.

No more sea in verse 1 probably represented to him the many separations that divide us in this present world.  Those separations take many shapes; divorce, disagreements, death, and on and on we could go.  In the life to come in heaven, there will be no more separations.