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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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A Multi-Layered Promise
Commentators agree this promise has multiple layers of fulfillment. It applied initially to Israel's restoration after exile, finds a deeper reality in the new life offered through Christ's first coming, and points to an ultimate, complete fulfillment in the final new heavens and new earth described in Revelation 21.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For behold - The idea in this verse is that there will be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were made.
19th Century
Anglican
Behold, I create new heavens ... —The thought reappears in many forms in the New Testament—verbally in 2 Peter 3:13;[Reference…
16th Century
Protestant
For, lo, I will create new heavens and a new earth. By these metaphors, he promises a remarkable change of affairs; as if God had said tha…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth This prophecy began to have its accomplishment in the first times of the Gos…
In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miser…
13th Century
Catholic
They have sought me. Here the judge, God, gives the sentence of separation between the wicked and the good regarding the recepti…
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