HOPE

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HOPE
TEXT STUDY Rev 21.1-7

Revelation 21
The New Jerusalem
1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
5He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
6He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

INTRODUCTION

The Bible describes the believers as immigrants (1 Pet 2.11). In
course of their earthly journey, they feel the painful
distance from the house of the Father and all that can
delay the reunion. The text studied this week reminds us
the obstacles that hinder our progress we can
follow in the kingdom of God. This text is a haven of hope
offered by God to his children every day through all kinds
Turbulence depression, discouragement, disillusionment.

"Once we get close the parade and we have
resulted in full light, we take pity to have
so many ways to share the cold lands of death against
the countries of the radiant intensity and harmonious life. Without the sky
would be the earthly existence? A race in the night, a night without
morning harvest without sowing. "
(Tommy Fallot, Letter to Ms. Roche, 31 October 1901)

1. A NEW CREATION (21.1)

"I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
new earth had disappeared, and there was no more sea. "
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New things: unprecedented, unimaginable to the mind
human.
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Disappearances: Wednesday recalling the tragedy of the flood.
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The theme of this recreation is already Es 65.17 and 66.22. On
found in the New Testament (Mt 19.28, Mk 13.24,31; 2 Co
5.17; Col 3.10; 2 Pi 3.13).

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The Bible does ecological language?
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If the ancient world is to pass, we provided
watch the deterioration of our environment?
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2. A NEW CITY (21.2)

"And I saw coming down from heaven, from God, the holy city, the
new Jerusalem, prepared as a bride adorned for her
spouses. A holy city: purity contrasts with
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A city prepared: announced by Jesus (Jn 14:1-3).
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A city you want from God (1 Cor 2.9, Eph 3.20) of celestial origin, it
is not the result of a human. It is a community
founded and led by God (Gal 4.26).

Here we find 2 themes dear to the Old Testament:
a) The idealization of the Jerusalem of the ultimate end of time (60 & Es
62)
b) The symbol of God's presence among his people (Ex 25;
Rev 11.19)

"The man needs a place, it has a vital need. I think it
manifest just need to live, to exist, to have a place
in life. Life is not an abstraction. Exist, it is occupying a
some space in which it was entitled. "(Dr. Paul Tournier, The Man
and place, p. 22)


3. A NEW COMMUNION (21.3,4)

"Behold the tabernacle of God with men! He will dwell with them,
they will be his people, and God himself shall be with them. He will wipe every
tear from their eyes ... "
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The presence of God: he "camped" in the middle of its own.
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The absence of evil: death, mourning, crying pain.

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Locate in the Scriptures attempts to divine
closer to humans?
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Our Christian respond to this expectation of God?


4. A NEW CONSTITUTION (21.5-8)

"Behold I make all things new ... These are some words and
true. "
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A wonderful place: God is the author.
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A safe place: enter means security forever.
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Every people needs a constitution to exist and survive.
In the Bible, where do you find such a charter?
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The realistic do you? Utopian? Unachievable?


THE BIBLICAL PROMISES ARE CLEAR

All is well in the house of the Father (Ro 8.18; 2 Cor 4.17). We
can say a lot of frustration: You trouble me
today, but you can follow me to the house!

1. DEATH WILL NOT ENTER WITH ME IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE! (21.4)

"... And there will be no mourning, nor crying, nor pain ..."

"Death is not evil supreme supreme evil is to be
outside of divine love. "(Martin LUTHER LING, The power of love, p.
190)

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DEATH: The last enemy to be destroyed (1 Cor 15.53-56).
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PAIN: ponos the term refers to disease and
disasters that may mark human life.
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THE CRIS: the word kraugè contains the idea of a split that leaves
suffering escape impossible to contain.
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Tears: the physical expression of sadness.

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Without hope, I am condemned to roll as my Sysiphe
rock to the top of the mountain to see it immediately
down the slope.
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The promises of God enough to convince me that life
is an absurdity?

2. SATAN WILL NOT ENTER WITH ME IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE! (21.8)

"... And their part in the lake burning with fire and brimstone. "

"Evil is a non-being. Satan himself was created and can not go
until the end of his chain. (...) There is not a God of good and
God of evil. Ultimately, evil comes from the well. His only strength
although it comes from distorting. Evil is a skid that. "
(Georges STEVENY, A discovery of Christ's life and health,
Dammarie-les-Lys, 1991 79)

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3. SIN WILL NOT ENTER WITH ME IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE!
(21.8)

"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers,
the fornication, the sorcerers, the idolaters and all liars, their
part in the lake burning ... "

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Since God is love, not let there not a second chance
to unbelievers?
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Ultimately, why n'irions not we all in heaven?
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Why would a sorting is needed?


CONCLUSION

"Hope is not to be private, be sure to be filled. Any
certainty is hope and hope is the same certainty
(...) The hope is a force. For the kingdom is just the engine
of history. The figure of this world is passing, but the future intervient
in this ephemeral and it gives us the truth of the divine promise
in the form of a hope. These are the things that last
determine the before-last. The victory gives the combat happy
and joyful. "(Pierre MAURY, Eschatology, p. 28)