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NASB | Acts 3:21 whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 3:21 whom heaven must keep until the time for the [complete] restoration of all things about which God promised through the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. |
Bible Question:
We believe according to the Bible that the redeemed of the Lord shall be raptured and shall be caught-up with the Lord when he comes back, moreover Jesus promise us that in Jh 14 that He has gone to provide a place for us. How then can we explain what the Bible says in the book of Psalm 37:29 that "The righteous will inherit the land And dwell in it forever".NASU |
Bible Answer: The work of Christ will finally be the restoration of Earth the way it was suppose to be before our parents fell (or maybe it's better said, before they jumped). I've been putting off really studying this out, but this question (the long and the short) started working on me years ago when I was taking a class in Ancient Philosophy. The topic was Plato and his teaching on the triune nature of man. The prof stopped midstream and made it clear that Plato's body-soul-spirit view of man should not be confused with the Christian view, because the Greeks held that the body is the prison house of the soul, and death was an happy escape, where as Christians believe death is an enemy (ICor 15:26). What he, my prof, seem to be telling us was that the resurrection of the dead is fundamental to the Christian faith and foreign to the Greeks. Remember how unthinkable the resurrection was when Paul was explaining the Faith in Athens(Acts 17:32)? To my knowledge the resurrection of the dead, rather than a population of after life phantoms, is unique to the Bible. If I understand right that the resurrection is fundamental to Bible faith, it makes me think that after we're raised from the dead we will take up our residence on Earth (New Earth). This probably sounds like pointless speculation. If someone (there must be many) has worked on this, please speak up. |
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