Kurt is really drawing straws on this one. The New Heavens and Earth are being described by Kurt as the removal of the oppression and persecution during the events of 70ad. If that is the case, then how is it destribed by Peter as a dwelling place for the righteous. So does that mean if those who survived that period were some how found worthy or righteous to gain entry into the New Heavens and Earth or the Age to Come. Preterists have messed this all up. They are back peddeling themselves right into a huge pit in the ground. They are making that which is spiritually representative of the reward from our trails and tempations, and making it historical. Where should our treasures be? Are we to believe our treasures are of this life, or in the life to come?
Kurt Simmons
The new heavens and earth describe the changed circumstances of God’s people, in which the former troubles were now forgotten. Whereas they had been under oppression and persecution by their fellow countrymen who refused to heed God’s word, they would see happier times. The time of national and personal sorrow under the Assyrians and Babylonians (in the first instance, but in the Messianic context, under the Jews and Romans,) would give way to a time when the faithful of God’s people would enjoy security and peace. The Jerusalem that had suffered siege and famine would give way to a Jerusalem that enjoyed an abundance of peace. The inhabitants of the new Jerusalem would “dwell every man under his vine and under his fig tree.” (Isa. 65:21) We should not mistake the poetic description of the new Jerusalem for the new heavens and earth.
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