The Bible tells us all over of heaven and clouds, and hell and fire. My explanation only validates it; taking the idea that sinning creates death (furthermore we are told the punishment for sin is death in the Bible), and so you see that sin creates hell; and that is a punishment on humanity, so the sinner itself will suffer the creation of hell. Also, if hell is created, where then is the good? Surely it exists for God is good. Well, that then is heaven above.
Many places we are told of Jesus ascending into heaven, and coming on the clouds of heaven, and how we're surrounded by a great
cloud of witnesses (so watch yourself), and also the clouds being God's chariot. And so if heaven is the ascension, descension is hell and my explanation corresponds with all the forewarnings and scriptures of such.
I have provided several scriptures in my support of this, but I will do it again as well:
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
In the Bible you also get a passage saying, "he sits enthroned above the circle of the earth."
Isaiah 40:22 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Sitteth is used here, but my Bible uses enthroned. Either way, you see that the throne is above the earth. And so a great white throne that Jesus sits on (we already know Jesus is "coming on the clouds of heaven") should lead to understand that this is a great white cloud. All the ground is cloud now; up above and in heaven. And then you hear of things being throne into the lake of fire and such. If the sky is the throne, or new ground (earth), then as sure as the sea is beneath the land, so as us being beneath the clouds and a dry molten hell would be to the clouds a lake of fire. I'll let you run with this.
Your explanation seems to describe a global transformation as opposed to a regional transformation.
I don't see where the author describes the land moving up a level from the planet's surface.
What leads you to understand that heaven becomes the new land?
Because the Bible does not ramble on like modern science-fiction reminding us of NASA's photographs and knowledge of planets. The Biblical authors speak purely of truth. Likewise, if you are on earth, and the earth is destroyed, and the heaven is the sky, and you get all these revelations of a new heaven and a new earth, and also of the clouds and hell, and then using my explanation (a down to earth explanation) see the future of it, would the author's intention of a new heaven and new earth being foretold be an actual new planet or realm? No. I hardly think they even cared about our modern obsession with space travel and dreaming. Living on and being on earth, as all of us, all the days of our lives, you have to remain realistic, and of course, down-to-earth. Don't let science fill you with all kinds of magical ideas and mixup your head. You were born on earth and so far have never left it as long as you've live. Don't be confused by the imagination.
By earth, it is a huge amount of the time referring to the soil, the ground we are on now, and life as we know it in our present form. Your body is made of the earth. Know that. Don't let science confuse you. Remain in the truth; because God does not confuse or lie to you. Moreover, if then the earth as the ground, this big oasis with trees and people dies, don't be a big dreamer assuming you'll just enter some sort of a portal that takes you to some other land. You are a man, your body is made of, born of, grown of and in, and continues to be in and of earth. The soil. The dust. Its life, its air, its people, its everything--God beyond all this; for that matter, who made both the heaven above and earth.
I tell you this because people use a lot of these high sciencey informations to escape the truth. They hear of theories, and ideas, and dreams, and whatifs and "facts", and the final result is a mass confusion.
Know this: if then the earth is the soil and it is destroyed, and if the clouds of the heaven cover it and become the new surface of the planet, then the soil now becomes the lower level, or, the descent, the hell, and heaven would be then a new earth. If heaven is heaven now because it is above us and 'undeveloped', or not yet complete (earth [the soil] is not yet dead or destroyed nor has the clouds enveloped it), then when it becomes the new earth, or the new ground, the new heaven would be that which is above it, right?
Heaven in fact is upward. You get several layers of heaven if you learn more about it. Heaven ascends upward. And so if earth is earth now (in the Bible) because it is where the living is, and yet it is PASSING AWAY, then when heaven now becomes the new earth (where the living is), you see that terms are interchangable with the future.
For there is more than one earth in that time belongs to God. Regardless of what men do and deny and lie about, the fact is the earth now in its present form is dying (we see this; all life on earth dies now), and so the new earth (the clouds) in fact is still planet earth, except, well, I don't know how to explain it. But I hope I answered your questions or concerns.
Basically, if you're confused, I advise you to stop being magical. God alone can do all things.
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