Shabbat shalom everyone can you please turn with me to the book of the Revelation today and we are going to begin today dealing with Revelation chapter 21 and i'm going to read today the first eight verses Revelation chapter 21 from verse 1 to verse 8 we are going to be dealing with the eternal order, the eternal state. So let's read Revelation 21 verses 1 to 8. 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 and I John saw the holy city new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away and he that sat upon the throne said behold I make all things new and he said unto me write for these words are true and faithful and he said unto me it is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. We'll stop here with the reading today in Revelation chapter 21 and before we are going to begin to look at those verses if you remember we just finished in our last ministry meeting to deal with chapter 20 of Revelation and we have always looking back to see what we have covered so far. And in Revelation chapter 20, we have learned that the length of the kingdom age that had been promised to our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants, the length of the kingdom, messianic kingdom age, will be 1,000 years long.

They themselves did not know that. They received the promises from God that there will be a messianic kingdom where the Messiah will reign where the promised Messiah of Israel will reign and Israel will be restored and truly we have looked at chapter 20 and we saw the nation is restored there is a worship of the Messiah the length of the time that he will reign will be a thousand years and Satan will be bound for those thousand years then we learn as we have covered chapter 20 that at the end of the kingdom age which the Hebrew prophets also did not know how will the end come to pass and then John Yohanan received the Revelation on the island of Patmos from the glorified Messiah how will the kingdom age will end and what did he tell him at the end of the thousand years Satan gonna be loosed as it says in Revelation 20 verse 7 and 8 it says he's gonna be loosed for a season out of his prison and she'll go out and he will deceive all the nations which are from the four quarters of.

The earth and they will gather together to a battle against God's people against Israel and ultimately God will come as we read here in this verse 9 and a fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured all those that came against the beloved city of Jerusalem and the nation of Israel and the kingdom will end with a total destruction of the enemies of God and ultimately those that rejected God including of course here the devil and all the beasts going to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and there it says they shall be tormented forever and ever that's how we more or less concluded in our last ministry in additional to that brothers and sisters we also talked about the great white throne judgment which we have in chapter 20 and verse 11 to the end and that is the last judgment it's called the great white throne judgment and there all the unbelievers from every generation in human history will be resurrected and situated before the one who sits upon the throne the Messiah.

Yeshua himself and they will be judged by him according to their works and he will in a sense beloved brothers and sisters will take that dvd and play it before them and he will show them how they had opportunities to accept him and they rejected him and they despised him and they did not want to make things right with God and they will also as it says in the Scripture at the end of chapter 20 they will also whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire and that's how the millennial age the messianic kingdom ended and ultimately all unbelievers have been cast into the lake of fire Satan was there the false prophet the counterfeit Messiah was there all ultimately are going to be cast into the lake of fire and then we have between chapter 20 verse 15 to chapter 21 where we just began our reading today we have right now introducing before us the eternal state.

Now the eternal state goes beyond the kingdom age the kingdom age is 1 000 years long Israel will live in a wonderful utopia in a wonderful time of shalom of peace but we learned from the passage that we have talked about last time that even though there will be a thousand years of the messianic reign here where Yeshua will reign sin will still occur death will still come upon those who will not become believers in a Messiah. It will be a great and wonderful age, but even that is still an age that is in some way is an imperfect age. By the time now we come to the end, the last two chapters of Revelation, here we have an introduction.

We are coming to what is known to be the eternal order, the eternal state, the eternal time. Like we read in the book of Psalm from eternity to eternity thou art God God the eternal God is right now showing to us what is going to be like in the eternal order where sin will no longer exist at that time i'm going to mention a few more things if you want to write this down for yourself, what we find here in Revelation chapter 21 is exactly in contrast of what we have experienced by the first creation. You notice it said in verse 1 of chapter 21, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

Now think with me for a moment. When God created the heaven and earth in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1 he created it for the pleasure of men and here in chapter 21 we don't see the first creation but we see the new creation Revelation chapter 21 and verse 1 we have the creation of the new heaven and the new earth in the book of Genesis we saw the creation of the sun. While in the book of Revelation chapter 21 there will be no need for a son in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 5 we saw that God called the light to show through to come forth in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 there will be no more need for light because there will not be any night there anymore in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 10 the seas were created but in Revelation chapter 21 there will be no more sea again back to Genesis chapter 3 we read of the proclamation of a curse but in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 there will be no longer curse in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 19 because of sin death came into this world in Revelation chapter 21 there will be no more death in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 24 man was cast out of the garden lest he will eat of the tree of life in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 the tree of life is presented before man again and man can.

Feed of the fruit of the tree of life in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 17 the sorrow and pain have entered into this world because of sin in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 there will be no more pain no more sorrow because sin will totally be removed and so you see what we have in Genesis in the beginning the first creation and here what we have in the new creation totally different eternity that we have here in Revelation chapter 21 and so let's look at those verses verse by verse and we'll see what the Lord is teaching us here concerning the future eternal state in eternal order first of all notice in verse 1 and 2 that there is a complete new heaven and earth that we must even distinguish this from the creation of the heaven and earth that we have in the prophet Isaiah look what it says here and i'm reading verse one and i saw John is saying a new heaven.

And a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea and i John saw the holy city the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Now, when we did our reading earlier, we read from 2 Peter chapter 3. And maybe for a moment, if you don't mind, turn with me back to 2 Peter chapter 3. And there the apostle Peter was speaking to those who are mocking and laughing God and God's people. And he said to them, if you remember in 2 Peter 3, and we began from verse 3, he mentioned there, there are some who will come, knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.

And they will say, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Peter is writing, it says, for they are willingly ignorant that by the word of God, the heavens of old were made and the earth standing and in the water whereby the world that then was, this is the past world in the flood before the flood, being overflowed with water perished. That is the past world that he's talking about but then he says he continues and he says listen but the heavens and the earth which are now that was Peter saying at the time that he was preaching to his people Israel he said by the same word they are kept and they are in storm preserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men this is the present day world in which we live in but then you notice what he says in verse 12 he continues he's looking forward to a future day when there will be new heaven and new earth and he says looking and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

Nevertheless, he says in verse 13, we, according to his promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. The Apostle Peter, when he was preaching to the early first century believers. He says, look, there was a creation of God that God had judged with the flood. That's the past world. There is a present world in which we live in today is reserved for judgment of fire. That's the present world. But there is a future coming, that there will be a new heaven, a new earth, And then he adds, where righteousness will dwell. In a sense, he even go beyond the millennial age, because in a millennial age, righteousness will reign, not dwell, because there will still be sin.

But he's taking us to the eternal order. And he says there will be a time in which righteousness will dwell, where sin will no longer have its own way where death will be removed this righteous age where righteousness not only will reign but will dwell and i'm back now to Revelation chapter 21 John is looking and he see from the island of Patmos he see by Revelation a new heaven and a new earth why he sees it because the first heaven and the first earth were passed away completely removed passed away and then he says and there was no more sea beloved brothers and sisters if you remember that when God have created the world remember that we read in Scripture that the Spirit of the Lord was hovering over the face of the waters this is Genesis 1 verses 1 and 2 we find out that there was chaos after the creation of the first heaven and the first earth why because between verse 1 and verse 2 the fall of Satan was there and the fall of Satan brought.

Chaos to this world and then God had to recover this world and put it back in order and what we find out in Genesis 1 and on how God the sea were already in existing and he had to remove the waters so the earth can be revealed what we find out that the sea became a part of a separation causing a separation sometime when we are talking to somebody and we says listen i'm going to travel overseas why are you traveling overseas because the sea separating between me and my family between friends and families the seas became a separation but in the eternal order we find out that God totally remove the sea there will be no more sea it doesn't mean that there will be no water but it simply means that there will be no separation no distances whether it is physical distances or spiritual distances you know how often we say to ourselves I would love to be able to go to visit my family to see my mom my dad my brother my sister my friend but they are living.

So far overseas i gotta go so far to get to them well the sea became symbolically also a separation between nations between families between people between those that are dear to us in the eternal state in the eternal order there will be new heaven new earth the first earth and the first heaven have fled away passed away and there will be no more sea no more separation that's what's so dear to the hearts of people today those of us who believe in Yeshua the Messiah and going to be in the presence of the Lord will no longer need to be separated from those that we love and of course the ones that will be there will be only those that have trusted the Lord Yeshua the Messiah believers and then again also you notice that in verse 1 and 2 that not only that there was no more sea it tells us immediately in verse 2 that John continued to see and what does he see now in verse.

2 he see the holy city the new Jerusalem coming down out of God out of heaven prepared as a bride a dawn for her husband now you notice that the new Jerusalem it is in contrast with the old Jerusalem the new Jerusalem was not created the city of Jerusalem the new Jerusalem it is a city of God it is the heavenly Jerusalem and John sees that holy city the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven you know sometimes when we talk about heaven we think about oh it is a far far away place that we can't even ever think about how far it is but we learn here from the Scripture from Revelation chapter 21 that even that city of the heavenly Jerusalem going to come out of heaven as it says here coming down from God and in a sense we can see that there will be an intercommunication between heaven and earth the city of Jerusalem the heavenly Jerusalem is going to be coming out of heaven, and they're going to be coming out of God, and in that city.

It says that the people of God will dwell. It says here in verse 2 that this city will be prepared as the bride adorned for her husband. You know, while the Old Testament Hebrew prophets did not know about the eternal state. They only knew about the messianic kingdom. They never prophesied of anything beyond the messianic age, the thousand years of millennial age. But the New Testament writers receive additional information about the city of Jerusalem, which became the hope of all the believers. And I would like you to read with me a couple of verses that the New Testament writers wrote about the city of Jerusalem. The first passage that we'd like to look at for a moment is in the book of Galatians.

If you turn with me, please, to Galatians chapter 4, we find out that this heavenly city of Jerusalem, it was a city that is from above, and it is a city of the ones that are free they are no longer in bondage look at this Galatian chapter 4 Paul Shaul is. Writing and speaking about this city of Jerusalem and he says in verse 25 and 26 the hagar is a picture of Mount Sinai in arabia and it is answering to Jerusalem which is now and is in bondage with her children you know very well that even our own city of Jerusalem which i was born there constantly under attack constantly with wars and fighting there is that bondage that is existing even today with all the fact that we live there and people are born there and carry on life there but there is always the constant friction and bondage over that city of Jerusalem that is the Jerusalem which is now but look what he said in verse 26 but the Jerusalem which is from above is free which is the mother of us all he makes a contrast the Apostle Paul, between the existing present-day city of Jerusalem, which today is constantly bombarded with constant bondage and problems in that city today, but the future city of Jerusalem, which is from above, is free.

There is no bondage there. There is liberty. There is. Freedom. Why? Because sin will no longer exist. Death will no longer exist. And therefore, there will be total freedom and peace in that city of Jerusalem he called it here the apostle Paul in verse 26 Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all then another verse if you may please turn with me to Hebrews chapter 11 please Hebrews chapter 11 here is the writer to the Hebrews write about this city again. Hebrews chapter 11, and I'm reading now in verse 8, 9, and 10. Again, look at this. This is the city that is built by God. Hebrews chapter 11, by faith, verse 8, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive as an inheritance he obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went by faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Yaakov the heirs with him of the same promise and look what it's adding here the.

Writer of the book of Hebrews he said for he looked for a city which has foundation whose builder and maker is God Abraham was looking for that city now he of course did not see what you and i see as new testament believers the eternal order but he was looking for a city where the builder and the maker is not man but it is God he was looking for a place of promise that God had promised him but the writer of Hebrews take us beyond even the millennial age and he says that he was looking for a city whose foundation and builder and maker is none else but God himself now if you turn to chapter 12 of the same book of Hebrews he picks up on this and he continues in verse 20 and the writer to the Hebrew believers said to them in verse 20 of chapter 12 for they could not endure that which was commended and if so much as a beast touched the mountain he's speaking about.

The law it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart and so terrible is the sight that Moses said i exceedingly fear and quake but you he's speaking to the believers now in Yeshua the Messiah to the Hebrew believers he says you are come unto the Mount Zion and unto the city listen of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and the church of the firstborn which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Yeshua the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of the sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel and the apostle writing to them and emphasizing the fake that when they became believers in Yeshua the Messiah they not only came to the Yerushalayim of this world even though there will be a great time when Yerushalayim Jerusalem will be restored in a messianic age but he takes them beyond that.

Brothers and sisters and he's saying to them in verse 22 you have come to the living God and to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the Yerushalayim that will come out of heaven. This is the city of God. This is the place where the redeemed people will dwell throughout eternity. And so the Apostle John, in chapter 21, he sees there the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven. And then it says it is prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. You know when we talk about the city of Jerusalem while it is a place an eternal place for the believers but it really coincides with the people of God when you look at the wedding when you have a time where the wedding is going to happen and a marriage is going to happen we find out that the bride is getting ready for that special occasion where the bridegroom will come to take her and to be united with him because she loves him and she's waiting to be with him.

Well, here we find out that the heavenly city of Jerusalem is going to come down from God ready, prepared as a bride adorning herself for the marriage of her with her husband. That's what we find here in verses 1 and 2. So the heavenly Jerusalem, number one, it's a free city. Number two, it's a city that is built by God, and number three, it is a city that is called the heavenly Jerusalem. You know, since at. Least for me, as an Israeli born in 1955, up till today, nearly, what, 55, 56 years, there is not a time in my little history that the city of Jerusalem was totally free from trouble.

There is not a time. I remember a time where there was constantly suicide bombings in that city, constantly problem. In 1967, I remember before Jerusalem became united, where there was a wall between Jordan portion of Jerusalem and Israel portion of Jerusalem. There was separation. There was a division in that city of Jerusalem. And since, at least in my little history, up till the days today there is constant friction and problem in the city of Jerusalem and even when the Messiah will come at the second coming and will take his rightful place over this universe Jerusalem still never going to be the same way as we have here the eternal order where the heavenly city of Jerusalem will come down it will be the city of the free the city that is built by God and it will.

Be a city that is called the heavenly Jerusalem now what's going to happen in that city and who is going to be with God in that eternal order look at the next verses verses 3 4 and 5 and I think this is very precious for us to get a hold of it first of all we find out in verse 3 that God will dwell with man look at this it says and i heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with man and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God now i think the apostle here received that Revelation from the Messiah, from Yeshua, in order to show us how much God desired to dwell with men.

You know, God loves men whom He created, men and women, that is. God loved the human race. He created the human race differently than what He created the angelic race, if you will, the angelic realm. Angels are not human beings. Angels are spirit beings. It is only men and women that he created in his own image in his own likeness spirit soul and body and God created men for his own pleasure and so can you imagine throughout the history of the universe how he wanted so badly to dwell in the midst of his own you remember for example in the garden of Eden before sin came in we read that God was walking in the cool of the day and he was calling Adam and he says Adam where are you God was walking and dwelling among his people his creation but sin came in and brought a separation and then since that time judgment came and then God finally chosen a nation and he chosen the nation of Israel and when he brought Israel outside of the land of Egypt and he brought them into the wilderness he said to Moses in chapter 25 of the book of Exodus.

Make me a sanctuary that I will dwell among the people of Israel and you remember they built a tabernacle and God's presence was in the midst of his people Israel the Shekinah glory rested in the tabernacle and when the Shekinah glory later on was resting upon the temple when Israel built the temple in the city of Jerusalem but sin separated from God and you remember that God had to leave the temple he left the temple in the time of Ezekiel we read of him he left the temple because the nation have deviated from the will of God and so what God did he entered this world through the person of the Messiah and if you remember in John chapter 1 we read in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and then we read in John 1 14 and the word became flesh and tabernacle among us you remember that can you imagine he wanted so much to dwell with men that he entered humanity in the person of Yeshua the Messiah and he dwelt.

As the Bible says in verse 14 of John chapter 1 the word became flesh and dwelt among us the word for dwelt is tabernacled tabernacle among us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth God wanted well with men and he dwelled with Adam even a garden he dwelt in the midst of the people Israel in the tabernacle he dwelt in the person of the son when a Messiah came to this world God delight to dwell with men but sin separated men from God that's what happened in the garden that would happen in the time when Israel came out of the land of Egypt in the tabernacle and the temple that would happen when men rejected Yeshua the Messiah and set him aside but you see all this is going to be over beloved brothers and sisters because God is ultimately going to dwell with men that he found pleasure in these men and women whom.

He had saved and brought to himself and here we find him as it says here i heard a great voice crying out of heaven saying look John the tabernacle of God is with men look John God is going to dwell with men and by the word that word for dwell in the Greek is skeno in the Hebrew is shachan is the word tabernacle skeno in Greek shchina in Hebrew you know like we say sometimes the shekinah glory is the glory of God's manifest presence of God in the midst of his own people here can you imagine what a joy is going to give to the heart of God he's going to dwell with men as the Bible tells us and some suggest that because it says men that all distinctions are going to be totally removed because it doesn't say he dwells with a certain group of people but he dwells with men this is some suggested all distinction will totally be removed but we know that God has various families that he had saved over the generation of the human race we have the.

People who became believers in God prior to Abraham Isaac and Jacob like noah and his family We have Noah and his family, and then later on Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the people of Israel, and then later on in the church age, the ecclesia, the believers, then we have the tribulation saints, and so on, and so we have various families that have been saved over the generation. And the Bible tells us in Revelation 21 in verse 3 says that i heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle the tent of God is with men and he will dwell with them and notice what it says here in verse 3b they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and he will be their God you see there will be no longer that which calls God not to be recognized by men anymore they shall be his people he will be their God as it says here and he will be with them you know they will no longer have a sense of distance from God it doesn't mean that we will be divine never but the point is that we will enjoy him in such a way that God will completely be constantly with his own people and we can enjoy the presence of the Lord I want you to turn with me for a second to first John the epistle look what we read in verses.

One and two of first John chapter three this is the same John who wrote to the Revelation he also wrote the epistles and he's saying to the believers beloved behold what men of love the father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the children of God therefore the world does not know us because the world does not know him and then he says beloved now we are the children of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is you see what John is looking forward you see he received the book of the Revelation later on but you see John is saying look he says we are the sons of God we do not even realize what's going to happen in the future but then he says it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be.

Like him for we shall see him as he is you know we're going to see the Lord Yeshua the Messiah as he is we're gonna be like him suitable for the presence of God for eternity never to be separated from him that's what John is looking forward as he presents for the believers in first John chapter 3 and he's just musing over the fact of the love of God he says look behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us just dwell upon that he's saying to them just recognize the love of God that we should be called the children of God and then he said it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him can you imagine to be like the Lord Yeshua the Messiah in a sense that we are suitable for the presence of God never to be separated from God anymore the tabernacle of God is with man he will dwell.

With them they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God that's what John is showing to us about this eternal order that will be a wonderful time eternity to be with our Lord Yeshua the Messiah with God himself now in continue here in verse 4 as he's speaking about gods not only that he will dwell with men shachan shechina he will tabernacle with his own redeemed people but then notice what he's going to do in the future day this is in the eternal order, God will remove everything that sin brought upon man. He will totally remove it. Everything that sin brought upon the human race in the eternal order, it will be totally removed.

He says in verse 4 God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes now just for a moment just pause here for a moment i don't know about you but i'm sure that if we will ask each other about the last week or two if things have been troubling you that cause you to shed tears I believe that all of us can honestly say that things in my life in my family in my Job in this world around me in my neighborhood in my fellowship things that trouble me that cause me to shed tears tears are the consequence of sorrow and trouble in the life of mankind now I know that there are tears of joy at times but even the joy the tears that come out of joy are a result of the sorrows that came prior to that and here we find out brothers and sisters that the tears that we are pouring out in our life since we were born until today because things are troubling us things are hurting us pain and sorrow bringing tears.

Into the eyes of men and women today in this world and those tears that we experience that come from our eyes but out of our hearts are that which God will totally remove in the eternal order we never read the tears will be removed in the millennial age though it's going to be a joyful age but in the eternal order we read in verse 4 that God will wipe away all tears from their eyes, and then he says it's going to be a period of time that there will be no more things that we have experienced here in the human history. It says here there will be no more death, there will be no more sorrow, there will be no more crying, there shall be no more pain for the former things are passed away now we can call that city of Jerusalem the city of no more if you just jump to chapter 22 for a moment look at these verses look at verse 3 there shall.

Be no more curse look at verse 5 there shall be no more night there beloved brothers and sisters when we get to the eternal order to the city of Jerusalem this city is a city of no more no more things that sin brought upon mankind here in this world the first thing that we find out that there will be no more is death you remember when Adam was in the garden of Eden God said to Adam when he placed these two trees in the garden of eden the tree of life and the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and God said to Adam the day that you will eat out of this tree dying you shall die and Adam in violation of the word of God have taken of the fruit of that tree and the process of decay began.

The process of death had began. He was dying. A decay happened to him. He died spiritually. He later on died physically. And in between there was this. Decay of the body. Dying you shall die. And we read in Scripture that he ultimately died. And his descendants die and death came upon all men Romans 5 tells us in verse 12 that by one man sin enter into this world and death by sin came upon all for all have sinned and you and I don't have to go too far some of us perhaps have experienced the death of a family member just in the last year just recently my own father died in Jerusalem the family members that are passing away out of this scene one by one and men don't realize and neglect the message of the gospel neglecting accepting Yeshua the Messiah in order that he or she will have forgiveness of sin and the time is passing by until they have to meet that appointment that no one misses the appointment with death it is appointed unto men Hebrews 9 wants to die and after this the judgment so sin brought death and decay and death is separate us from family from friends death is a point of separation there is spiritual death there is physical death and there is an eternal death that an unbeliever will have to.

Experience if he leaves this world without the knowledge of the Messiah but when we're going to get to the presence of the Lord in the eternal order beloved brothers and sisters death will be totally removed death that has separated us from loved ones that have separated us from God that have separated us from that which we are dear to us will be totally removed i want to show you something if you turn with me back to first Corinthians chapter 15 once again we have looked at this verse but i wanted to see what the apostle Paul said in first Corinthians chapter 15 it says in verse 25 Paul is writing he says for he this is the son the Messiah Yeshua he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet but look what it says in verse 26 what is the last enemy of men look at verse 26 the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death do you know if there is anything that men feel today is death the.

Greatest enemy of men today and women people today is death why because they don't know what is going to happen to them when death comes in it is only us who have accepted Yeshua the Messiah by the grace of God that we can read the text in the Bible what God says to us in the word of God that those that are in Christ Jesus and Yeshua the Messiah passed from death unto life all things become new we are new creation in Yeshua the Messiah so for us today death become a servant to usher us into the presence of the Lord but for the unbelievers who have not come to faith in a Messiah death is a fearful thing is the last enemy that will be destroyed ultimately when a Messiah at the end of the messianic age will finally destroy even death as it says here now verse 27 for he must put all things under his feet but when he has all things put under him it is manifest that he is accepted which did put all things under him.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him, and put all things under Him, that God, this is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, may be all in all. At the end of the millennial age, the Messiah will hand over to God the Father, and then death will be totally removed, and He will destroy death. Why because the wages of sin is death and at the eternal order beloved brothers and sisters there will be a total removal of death and we as believers the people of God going to be throughout eternity living life with the Messiah with God who is dwelling with man without at all experiencing that which we have experienced in this life and that is death but not only death will be removed until a person dies look what we read it says here in the next verse there will be neither sorrow nor crying neither there shall be any more pain for the former things are passed away now those statements here such as sorrow what brings sorrow sorrow comes to us because of the sins and the problem that existing in this world we have the thought of crying here crying and weeping comes because of trials and tribulation that man is experiencing here in this world of sin and then pain think of the pain that we experience that man experience here in this world of sin.

Pain these all are going to be totally removed when a Messiah is going to establish this new heaven and new earth as we read here in verse for God will totally remove everything the sin brought upon men death will be defeated and no more death will be in the eternal order that is a wonderful promise for those who belong to the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and i remember brothers and sisters the disinformation that we have here the old testament saints did not have this information Revelation 21 verse 1 all the way to Revelation 22 and verse 5 is information that old testament saints did not have it is a new testament saints that have these it takes us beyond the messianic age it takes us to the eternal order where things are totally going to be different then notice that i'm moving on in our verses now there is a declaration now by the Lord himself in verse 5 he says in verse 5 and he that sat upon the throne said behold i make all.

Things new and he said unto me write for these words are true and are faithful you see God is saying there's a declaration there and the one that declared this here is in verse 5 he's the one that sits upon the throne we know that we have if we remember when our early study of Revelation in chapter 4 and chapter 5 we saw God is sitting on the throne we saw the Messiah is the lamb there we also saw the 24 elders around the throne but the one that sits upon the throne was God and here God declares and he says listen i make all things new and he said to me write this John, I want you to write this because whatever I'm telling you are true and are faithful.

Put it down, John. You and I can read it today because John put this down. John put this down. This is true. This is faithful because others such as you and I and other believers throughout the church need to read these words from God. These are true words of God. These are faithful words that came from God and so John had to put this down and write this and what does he tell him? I make all things new you know brothers and sisters everything that comes from the old creation has to be totally removed the old nature has to be totally removed that's why the Bible says that we must be born again born anew born from above why?

Because the old nature is that which is coming from the old ways the old sinful past and when we became believers in Yeshua the Messiah remember 2nd Corinthians 5 and verse 17 those that are in the Messiah Yeshua a new creation old things are passed away all become new makes us suitable for this new thing that God is doing in the eternal order behold I make all things totally new we read here in verse five and so in those verses three and four and five we see God dwelling in the midst of his own in a new creation he removed totally death and sorrow and crying and pain and there he made everything new suitable for the people of God to enjoy and to dwell with him forever and ever and so we continue here in our next verses there in verse six there is a promise of full satisfaction you know from the time that we are born here in this world we are trying to be satisfied right.

We're trying to be happy in this world we're trying to go to a good school we're trying to raise our family in the right way we are working very hard trying to be satisfied you see we work hard so we can buy things and then we are trying to be satisfied we get married so we will be happy with a husband and a wife we bring children into this world so we will be happy family we're trying to be satisfied and it seemed to be and you have to admit it that doesn't matter what you have in this world you are still always seems to be not satisfied you don't quite get there you don't quite satisfied i know we are taught in the Bible be content with such things as you have for he said i'll never leave you nor forsake you but how often we have to admit we are not quite satisfied here in this world whatever we have we seem to not be totally satisfied.

Well when we're going to be in the eternal state we will never have this empty feeling as if something is missing we will be totally satisfied because we are going to be with our blessed Lord Yeshua the Messiah and we are never anymore going to have that sin nature to cause us to be dissatisfied and so in verse 6 now he's promising of a full and eternal satisfaction for those that believe on the Lord and those that belong to him he said in verse 6 he said unto me It is done I am the Alpha and the Omega I am the beginning and the end I will give unto him that is thirsty Of the fountain of the water of life freely Here, John I want you to write this down, John It is done, it is finished Everything has passed away That which is in decay That which is limited That which is failure everything has passed away John put this down he says i am the Alpha i am the beginning i am the.

End i will give unto him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life and it's going to be free in other words he promised here and while he's talking about the eternal order he's still speaking to men today that if somebody reads Revelation chapter 21 and verse 6 he's still speaking to men today says listen i'm the beginning i'm the end i'm the Alpha and Omega i'm telling you are you thirsty you want to be satisfied you're trying to find satisfaction here in this world and you don't find it you want to be satisfied find it in the person of Yeshua the Messiah and he is going to give you an eternal satisfaction he will quench your thirst that's why he says here i will give him of the water of the fountain of the water of life freely just turn again to the gospel of John for a moment John chapter 4 let me read you a verse or there and no wonder John is writing because it is the same apostle of John who wrote earlier in the.

Gospel and you remember the story of the samaritan woman in John chapter 4 when the Lord Jesus the Messiah came beside her and he was there he was asking her to give him to drink you remember that in John chapter 4 look what we read here in verse 13 it says Jesus answered Yeshua answered he said unto her when she gave him the water he says listen whosoever drinking of this water shall thirst again but he says but whosoever drinks of the water that i shall give unto him shall never thirst but the water that i shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life you see she was talking about the physical water he was talking about the spiritual life spiritual she was talking about the water that came out of the well and he was talking about the water the fountain of life that which comes from God the living water and she said to him if you remember oh give me this water that i will not come to here to draw.

Any longer she said this in verse 15 she wanted so much this water and here the Lord Yeshua the Messiah telling John in Revelation as he writing the book of the Revelation on the island of padma saying John listen you write this down what i'm telling you this is true this is real this is what's going to happen in the coming day and he says listen if there is someone that is thirsty i'm going to give unto that person that is thirsty out of the fountain of the water of life and i'm going to give it to him freely he doesn't have to earn it to pay for that it will be freely the fountain of the water of life and that's what you and i as believers in Yeshua the Messiah we had drank from this fountain and we found satisfaction in the Messiah even though we are still here and now in this world with much decay and much discouragement and death and sorrow and pain and all this is still part of this falling creation but we are waiting for the.

Day where we're going to be in the presence of the Lord when death will no longer exist where sorrow crying and pain will be removed when he will wipe away the tears and we're going to stand in his presence he enjoying what he had given us the fountain of the water of life and we will be eternally enjoying the person of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah now notice that in closing here for this portion that we are looking at it says in verses 7 and 8 we see the contrast between the believers who overcame and have acknowledged the Messiah and the one who did not overcome in other words the unbelievers who were overcome by the world and its system and the sin that brought death into their life look what it says here in verse 7 first of all he that overcomes shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he will be my son that word overcome is an expression that we find out throughout the book.

Of the Revelation especially in chapter 2 and chapter 3 at the church age the overcomer is really the believers first John also tells us in first John chapter 5 we also learn about he that overcome he the believer thought the son he is the overcomer and because we have acknowledged him and we overcome this world and its system by faith in the Messiah who is the one that is overcomer but he the believer that Yeshua is the Messiah but look for them he had given a promise in verse 7 he said that the one that overcome he said i will give him all things everything belong to that person that have trusted in a Messiah and they said i will be his God and he will be my son here's the promise but look at the contrast in verse 8 of those who were overcomed by the world Satan and the sin of the flesh look what it says in verse 8 but the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderous and humongous and sorcerous and idolatrous and all liars shall have.

Their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death see he put here the contrast now again he writes these words in a portion of the Scriptures which deal with the eternal order but he is writing it for the benefit of those who read it today because we are not yet in that eternal order we are looking for that city from above the city that was made by God the city that is free the new Jerusalem but we are here now today and when we read these things we are challenged and the question is being asked have you accepted the Lord Jesus the Messiah as your Lord and Savior have you dealt with matters have you accepted the way of salvation that God provided freely through the death of his son and the resurrection and then he tells us if you have you are called in Scripture as an overcomer the overcomer is the one that will inherit everything at the end and God will be his God and he will be his son you're going to be called.

His son but the one that was overcome by sin and the flesh and Satan and the world he is the one as it says here at the end of verse 8 they shall have their part in the lake which is burning with fire and brimstone and it is called here in verse 8 the second death now remember we talked about it already in chapter 20 where we read verse 6 blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection on such the second death has no power you remember we read it also in chapter 20 in verse 14 where it says death and hades were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death the second death is the eternal death where a person will be totally separated from God never anymore to be able to be restored because he's going to be eternally separated from God and that is exactly what God does not want for any man God is not willing that.

And he would perish God want men women boys and girls to be drawn to him so we can enjoy that eternal state the eternal order and we dwell in that eternal city of Jerusalem the city which came from above which the maker and builder is God and not man it is a city of the free it is a city that one can enjoy throughout eternity to be in that city and that is the portion that the apostle John received now in Revelation 21 and gave it to us from verses 1 to 8 in the will of the Lord in our next ministry meeting we're going to move on from verse 9 to the end of chapter 21 and even the first verses of chapter 22 where we have now the description of that eternal city of Jerusalem what that city is like and how is that city is going to exist and what's going to happen in that eternal order how wonderful to look forward to the future day of the eternal state when brothers.

And sisters death sin sorrow crying pain will be no more can you say Amen to them Amen