All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love
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New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge offers readers a breathtaking look into God’s promise for a new heaven and a new earth.
This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is. As Jesus says in the gospel of Matthew, the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."
More than anything else, how you envision your future shapes your current experience. If you knew that God was going to restore your life and everything you love any day; if you believed a great and glorious goodness was coming to you--not in a vague heaven but right here on this earth--you would have a hope to see you through anything, an anchor for your soul, "an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God" (Hebrews 6:19).
Most Christians (most people for that matter) fail to look forward to their future because their view of heaven is vague, religious, and frankly boring. Hope begins when we understand that for the believer nothing is lost. Heaven is not a life in the clouds; it is not endless harp-strumming or worship-singing. Rather, the life we long for, the paradise Adam and Eve knew, is precisely the life that is coming to us. And that life is coming soon.
Top Highlights
“When God calls us to love him as our ‘first love,’ it is not only because he deserves to hold that place in our hearts, but also because he knows what pain will come when we get that out of order. If you give the part of your soul that is meant for God to lesser things, they will break your heart because they cannot possibly come through for you in the ways God can. Only he will never leave you or forsake you. The command is a rescue from disaster.” (source)
“The Hebrew for ‘brokenhearted’ is a conjunction of two words: leb, which is the heart, and shabar, a word that means ‘broken’ or ‘to break, to rend violently.’” (source)
“The hatred speaks of a desperation. The desperation speaks of our soul’s unbelief in the Restoration. It’s that simple” (source)
“ apokatastasis, which in both biblical and secular usage meant to put something back in its original condition” (source)
“Yes, Revelation implies ‘there was no longer any sea’ (21:1). But many scholars believe this is alluding to the fact that the ancients, including the Jews, held the sea to be a habitation of evil. Of course evil is gone. But the earth cannot function without the oceans; they play a critical role in our water cycle, weather, and planet temperature. Besides—who can imagine a new earth without the glorious ocean?” (source)
Product Details
- Title : All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love
- Author: Eldredge, John
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9780718038007
