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Title: Differences between the old and renewed creation.
Post by: WhiteWings on July 12, 2012, 09:01:25 PM
 
First Heaven and First Earth "In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth"
New Heaven and New Earth
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth"
earth (land) and sea
Genesis 1:9,10 Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.  And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
no more sea
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
day and night
Genesis 1:14 Let there be lights...to divide the day from the night...
Genesis 1:16 ...the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night...
no more night
Revelation 21:25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there..
sun and moon
Genesis 1:14-16 ...Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs and seasons, days and years; let them be for lights...to give light on the earth...then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.
no need of the sun or moon
Revelation 21:23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it.
Revelation 22:5 ...and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light.
Isaiah 60:19 The sun shall no more be your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you, but the Lord shall be unto you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
seasons
Genesis 1:14 ...let [the sun and the moon] be for signs and seasons, days and years.
no more seasons
Revelation 21:23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon...
Revelation 22:2 and in the midst of the street, was the tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month.
First Creation Cursed "Cursed is the ground for your sake"
New Creation
Redeemed from the Curse
"There shall be no more curse"
sorrow in bringing forth children
Genesis 3:16 In sorrow you will bring forth children
Isaiah 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain. We have, as it were, brought forth the wind...we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth...
no more bringing forth children for trouble
Isaiah 65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble, for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
ruled by "husband"
Genesis 3:16 Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
released from "husband", married to Christ
Romans 7:1-4 ...the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives...the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives...but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband...you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ that you may be married to Him...
Isaiah 62:4,5...your land shall be married...and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God shall rejoice over you.
cursed ground
Genesis 3:17 Cursed is the ground for your sake
no more curse
Revelation 22:3 There shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
sorrow in "eating" from the ground
Genesis 3:17 in sorrow you shall eat of it all the days of your life
joy from labor and fruit of the ground
Isaiah 65: 21,22 They shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them...My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
thorns and thistles
Genesis 3:18 Thorns and thistles it will bring forth to you
instead of the thorn, the fir tree
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn, will come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.
returned to dust
Genesis 3:19 [You will] return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you will return.
risen from the dust
Daniel 12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake...
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust...
Ephesians 5:14 Therefore He says, "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light."
denied the tree of life
Genesis 3:24 He drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
given the tree of life
Revelation 2:7 To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst o the paradise of God.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 
The above chart displays a series of contrasts between the beginning and the end, or the old and the new. In Christ, in the new creation, "old things have passed away; all things have become new." Interestingly, the same serpent is identified at both the beginning and the end, and is the only element of the old creation which remains unredeemed in the new:
"Serpent"
Cursed in the Garden
"You are cursed above all cattle"
"Serpent of Old"
Remains Cursed in the New Creation
"The serpent of old was cast out"
cursed to eat dust
Genesis 3:14 Dust you shall eat all the days of your life
dust for food
Isaiah 65:25 Dust shall be the serpent's meat
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