New Year's Day

Preaching Commentary

A New Heaven and a New Earth

In this well-known passage from Revelation, John receives a vision of the New Heavens and New Earth that will come with the return of Jesus (The Second Coming of Christ). The preacher may want to connect this vision of newness with our own desire to live into our nature as “new creations” (2 Cor. 5:17), where the “old has gone and the new has come.”

When we live into our identities as “new creations,” we witness to Christ’s kingdom and ultimately his return, where God will “wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making…