Revelation
21:1 KJV
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
The Apostle seems to have been
struck by the fact that the new earth has no sea. At least whatever waters
there will be are not as obvious as what there is now. The intimation is that
this new earth will be much more like the original before the flood. That there
is water in the new earth as is apparent by the river that flows from the
throne. It could be that John could not see the sea because it will be
underground as it originally was.
I see this as a compliment to
the fact that there will be no sun in eternity. The Lamb will be the light of
the new earth. Light is life sustaining but it isn't godlike. We do not need
the sun, we need the Lord. No sun in eternity serves to prove that.
In the same instance,
worshippers of the planet have made the earth their "mother," and the
sea is seen as central in "Mother Earth's" power. The sea
- Regulates our temperatures
- Recycles our atmosphere and
- Reconditions our water sources
as well as a host of other
functions that I am not up on. But all of these functions, like that of the
sun, are the creations of God and only serve to do what God Himself is capable
of without them and will do in the eternal earth.
- God is our sustainer, not the earth
- God is He whom we should seek
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