FROM INSPIRATION POINT
#15 The Mountain of Ultimate Peace
Since the day that Adam and Eve made their exit from the Garden of Eden, this world has never known perfect peace. From wars among nations to the bickering of children in the home, there has always been a restless striving of selfishness. Every form of sin, from the murder of innocent children to the gossip of well-meaning church members, has been a source of heartaches and misery. Jesus, the Prince of Peace, came to earth and suffered the most violent death to open the door for men to find peace. Some may think his efforts were in vain but the perfect peace that he brought is not brought to perfection until he comes again.
This is why we are given the Revelation of Jesus Christ at the end of the New Testament. John said: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea." [Rev. 21:1] The Almighty once washed the first earth away and started over again with Noah, but the next time he is starting all over, not with a remodeling job, but with "a new heaven and a new earth." Satan will be destroyed and "there will be no sin, sorrow, pain, nor death for the old order of things are passed away." [Rev. 21:4]
The greatest comfort comes from the fact that God himself will be the light, living among the redeemed of all ages. "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." [Rev. 21:9] "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as a crystal." [Rev. 21:9-11] "The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it, nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life." [Rev. 21:26]
As we stand facing the 21st century, the world is filled with high expectations. But we should be careful that, like those who, after the days of Noah, tried to build a tower whose top would reach to heaven, [Gen. 11] we might find ourselves with more than our tongues confused. We might find ourselves outside the gates of the city that God has prepared for us.
-John Young