Dave's Diary

Daily Readings: Revelation 21-22 and Psalm 63

The final chapters of the Revelation are filled with the promise of the new creation.

When Jesus returns as King and Lord of all, the entire universe is re-created, never to be corrupted by sin again. In this glorious new creation, God dwells with His people in a permanent state of perfect, life-giving fellowship and relationship. All our needs are perfectly met. All that is imperfect, broken and painful is done away with. All the rebellion and sin that gives rise to that brokenness is banished – along with Satan that ancient dragon, and, tragically, along with all who refuse to let go of their rebellion and sin and hence choose exclusion from this gloriously perfected order of existence.

In the new creation, all life and existence is eternally perfect in abundance and goodness. The people of God are complete and beautiful in purity and holiness. Humanity is the perfect reflection of the image of God and reigns over the new creation, just as God always originally intended for His first creation.

Who will make all this happen? Jesus, the Christ! The One who is ‘the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.’ (22:13 & 16)

Who will enjoy this new creation? All who recognise their need of a Saviour, repent of their sin and come to Jesus by faith, to receive the free gift of salvation and the ‘water of life’, and who then live out their salvation and allow His Spirit to purify them and keep them faithful to Jesus to the very end.

And all we can say as we bring this year of reading and reflecting on Scripture to a close is what John wrote at very end of the Revelation:

²⁰ … Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.