Peter Predicts the Beginning of the World
Acts 3:21 (NLT)
“For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets” Acts 3:21 (NLT)
Pastor’s Blog
If you were to predict the future of the planet what would you predict?
When I first thought about things like this, I thought about the sun burning out. Later on I concluded that the future of man was on another planet. More recently I find it hard to imagine that we humans won’t blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons. In short, most end times scenarios are not peaceful, but violent and catastrophic. Because of this, most Christians tend to believe that the Gospel message is that when we die or when the planet is destroyed (as in 2nd Peter 3, for example) believers will be transported to heaven where will live forever.
Actually that’s not real story, although it may be part of it. The real story is not that we go to heaven when we die (although we do go there first as a kind resting place, like a vacation) rather it is that our ultimate destination is on a new/renewed earth after God brings heaven down to earth and rejoins the two.
“Thy Kingdom come”, Jesus told us to pray. And his prayer will be answered, just as Peter says in today’s passage. All things broken will be repaired. No matter how cataclysmic the future of civilization on earth may become, that won’t be the final chapter of the story. God writes the final chapter not we.
Peter is very clear about wanting us to know that.
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