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.
· 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)
· 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)
Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; in the grave who will give You thanks?
Psalm 76:8 You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared and was still.
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