No
More Sin
By Dan Maines
Many Christians were taught that a day will
come in the New Earth where death, mourning, crying and pain will be
no more. This is false teaching. First off, the new Heavens and Earth
is the New Covenant and New Jerusalem. There's no more death, crying
and pain because we are no longer dead in sin under the curse of the
law.
Under the old covenant, when David or the nation was
exiled from Zion and God's city and temple, there was inner pain,
weeping, and bondage that followed (2 Samuel 15:30; Psalm 137; Isaiah
14:3; Isaiah 22:4-5; Jeremiah 9:1; 13:17; Jeremiah 22:9-10;
Lamentations 1:16; Joel 2:17). Under the new covenant the New
Jerusalem is not subject to being made desolate or shaken by invading
armies as was the old (Isaiah 62:4; Hebrews 12:27-28).
In
the New Jerusalem the gates always being open, even at night (Isaiah
60:11; Revelation. 21:25), is not merely a picture of evangelism; it
is also a picture of security for the residents of God's City. The
believer, through faith in Christ, is the new covenant creation and
it is impossible for him to be exiled from the City (2 Corinthians
5:17; Revelation 3:12; 22:12). The new covenant believer is one whose
weeping has ended, because God has forever taken away his sin and
united Himself with him (Isaiah 60:20; 65:14, 18-19; John.
17:21-23).
Christians in the new covenant world do not
shed tears in agony and cry out to God to save them from the Adamic
Death of Sin, as Jesus Himself did on our behalf (Hebrews. 5:7). "The
sting (pain) of the Death" cannot harm us anymore (1 Corinthians
15:56) because the power of Sin has been removed through Jesus, the
Law-Fulfiller who clothes us and indwells us. Now we live and reign
with Christ in the new covenant world, where dwells the Righteousness
of God.
Christians have been deceived into believing that
the events of 70AD mean nothing.
They believe Jesus did
not return in His Kingdom, New Jerusalem, in judgment of the 12
tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28) during the disciples' generation
(Matthew 24:34)while some of them were still alive to witness His
return in His Kingdom (Matthew 16:28).
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