The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades
delivered up the dead who were in them.
And they were condemned, each one according to his works.
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The earth will then be resurrected from its
present state, even as our natural bodies will have been changed dramatically
from their former state (1 Cor. 15:35-49). (CS)
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The earth will be renovated not annihilated. Scripture declares that the earth
continues forever (Ps. 37:29; 78:69; 104:5; 105:10-11; 125:1-2; 1 Chr. 23:25;
28:8; Isa. 60:21; Ezek. 37:25; Joel 3:20). The earth is only “new” in the sense
of being “re-newed” and resurrected from its present state. The phrase “passed away” (Rev. 21:1) is the
same Greek words as in 2 Cor. 5:17, where we, having been saved, are “new
creatures” all old things “passing away”. However, although old things have “passed
away” we are not different people in substance. We are merely changed not
annihilated or done away with utterly.
(CS)
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