Revelation 21:1
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All Things Made New
21 Now (A)I saw a new heaven and a new earth, (B)for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
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2 Peter 3:3-7
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3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, (A)walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of (B)creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that (C)by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth (D)standing out of water and in the water, 6 (E)by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But (F)the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for (G)fire until the day of judgment and [a]perdition of ungodly men.
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- 2 Peter 3:7 destruction
2 Peter 3:10-18
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The Day of the Lord
10 But (A)the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which (B)the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be [a]burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be (C)in holy conduct and godliness, 12 (D)looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will (E)be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will (F)melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for (G)new heavens and a (H)new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Be Steadfast
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent (I)to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider that (J)the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his (K)epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the (L)rest of the Scriptures.
17 You therefore, beloved, (M)since you know this beforehand, (N)beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 (O)but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
(P)To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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- 2 Peter 3:10 NU laid bare, lit. found
Isaiah 65:17
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The Glorious New Creation
17 “For behold, I create (A)new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or [a]come to mind.
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- Isaiah 65:17 Lit. come upon the heart
Isaiah 66:15-16
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15 (A)For behold, the Lord will come with fire
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by (B)His sword
The Lord will judge all flesh;
And the slain of the Lord shall be (C)many.
Isaiah 66:22-24
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22 “For as (A)the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And (B)it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
(C)All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
24 “And they shall go forth and look
Upon the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their (D)worm does not die,
And their fire is not quenched.
They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
Malachi 3:1-3
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The Coming Messenger
3 “Behold, (A)I send My messenger,
And he will (B)prepare the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple,
(C)Even the Messenger of the covenant,
In whom you delight.
Behold, (D)He is coming,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
2 “But who can endure (E)the day of His coming?
And (F)who can stand when He appears?
For (G)He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.
3 (H)He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And [a]purge them as gold and silver,
That they may (I)offer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.
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- Malachi 3:3 Or refine
Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of God
4 “For behold, (A)the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all (B)the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be (C)stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will (D)leave them neither root nor branch.
Hebrews 12:26
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26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, (A)“Yet once more I [a]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
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- Hebrews 12:26 NU will shake
Deuteronomy 29:22-28
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22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they (A)see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:
23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, (B)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, (C)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ 24 All nations would say, (D)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ 25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 27 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, (E)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28 And the Lord (F)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
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