Recreation: Revelation 21

The City of New Jerusalem has specific dimensions, and there is a temple. I am not clear on why we ever had all these specifics on the temple, how it was to be built, etc. But it might have something to do with enabling us to visualize what New Jerusalem will be like. God knows that we like our dwellings, and our creations. We have living rooms, and He enjoys them as much as we do. There is a temple for us in eternity.

This is God's re-creation of everything. He will re-create the universe, but this time we are players in the drama. We will get to watch it!

Watch me make everything all over again.

God must be smiling as He says this: like a kindly grandfather taking you outside to show you a new play structure he has built for you.

But in commenting on all of the words spoken to John, throughout the Book of Revelation, God says: "They've already come true: I am Alpha and Omega . . . "

We miss this point. In our chronological reading of history, and prophecy, we see everything as straight-line, as cause-and-effect. But God has told us it is already done. How can this be?

Eternity is constant Present. A never-ending Now. Eternal beings, which is what we are promised, occupy a realm higher than ours. They are not subjects of Time. They are rulers over it! They look over us as we do an ant colony (rough analogy). The re-creation of the Universe is as good as done. In fact, it has been done.

We have got to start seeing ourselves as beings that have already made it. Thanks be to God, the eternal realm is here already (for it must be, if there is such a thing), and many of us are there ("there" is not a very helpful word!) True, in our present state, we must proceed forward in time. This is our reference point. But God has said that it's already done. It is as good as done. It is done.

It can be a little crazy-making. But let us not ponder the meta-physics of it. Let's just accept God's good word and His promise.