“For behold, I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, And her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, And joy in My people; The VOICE OF WEEPING SHALL NO LONGER BE HEARD IN HER, NOR THE VOICE OF CRYING. “No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.” (Isaiah 65:17-20)
Perhaps the most important of all is the fact that the ultimate purpose of history, the ultimate purpose of redemption, from creation to consummation, is “THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF THE GRACE OF GOD.” That’s a quote from Ephesians 1:6. God has worked in history so that HIS WONDERS WOULD BE REMEMBERED AND PRAISED, especially the wonders of HIS GRACE. “He has caused His wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL” (Psalm 111:4). God is not going to obliterate the memory of his thousands of works of grace, as though they didn’t matter. On the contrary, according to Isaiah 63:7, God will cause to be remembered “the STEADFAST LOVE OF THE LORD…the great goodness to the house of Israel that He has granted them according to His compassion.”
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham