General Motivation Of The Message Of Reconciliation

[Walter And Debbie]

Sunday 11-3-24 1st. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Tishri 29 5785 42. Fall Day

2 Corinthians 5 discusses God preparing a new body for humans and an eternal home in heaven, which is a theme that is similar to a prophecy in the Old Testament:

• Genesis 12:3
  "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you".
  
  
  
• 2 Corinthians 5
  "For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands".
  
  

In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul discusses how God has prepared humans for a new life in heaven by giving them the Holy Spirit as a guarantee. Paul also discusses how Christians should aim to please God whether they are in their earthly bodies or away from them.

• Isaiah 65:17
• Revelation 21:4, 5
  
  

2 Corinthians 5:17 is a well-known passage in Paul's letters to Corinth that says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come". The verse means that when someone is in Christ, they have become a new creation based on Christ's saving work. This new creation includes: New thinking, New desires, New tastes and treasures, and Responding and reacting in new ways.


The verse also means that the old has passed away, and the old version of a Christian is not recoverable.

Bible Gateway passage: Isaiah 65:17-25, Revelation 21:1-5 - King James Version

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and...

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Love, Walter And Debbie