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The New Earth is an expression used in the Book of Isaiah (65:17 & 66:22), 2 Peter (3:13), and the Book of Revelation (21:1) in the Bible to describe the final state of redeemed humanity. It is one of the central doctrines of Christian eschatology and is referred to in the Nicene Creed as the world to come.
Revelation 13:16–14:4 on Papyrus 47 from the third century. Revelation 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the accounts of "the new heaven and the new earth", followed by the appearance of the New Jerusalem, "prepared as a bride". [1]
The structures of the two letters (to which Best refers) include opening greetings (1 Thessalonians 1:1a, 2 Thessalonians 1:1–2) and closing benedictions (1 Thessalonians 5:28, 2 Thessalonians 3:16d–18) which frame two, balancing, sections (AA'). In 2 Thessalonians these begin with similar successions of nine Greek words, at 1:3 and 2:13.
the Antichrist (1 and 2 John); the Beast of Revelation 13; the Man of Sin, or Man of Lawlessness, of 2 Thessalonians 2 ; the "Little horn" of Daniel 7 and 8; The Abomination of desolation of Daniel 9, 11, and 12; and; the Whore of Babylon of Revelation 17.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Paul referred to "the son of perdition". 2 Thessalonians 2:3 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;" King James Version, 1611. He appears to equate this image with the Man of Sin.
Katechon. The katechon (from Greek: τὸ κατέχον, "that which withholds", or ὁ κατέχων, "the one who withholds") is a biblical concept which has subsequently developed into a notion of political philosophy. The term is found in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7 in an eschatological context: Christians must not behave as if the Day of the ...
A new heaven and a new earth with the New Jerusalem (the World to Come) replace the old heaven and earth (Revelation 21:1). This is a reference to Genesis 1:1 and Isaiah 65:17. Many theologians interpret it allegorically as explaining the drastic difference in this world and 'heaven' when Christ has been acknowledged as having returned.
The two witnesses, as depicted in the Bamberg Apocalypse, an 11th-century illuminated manuscript. The two witnesses (Ancient Greek: δύο μαρτύρων, romanized: duo martyron) are two literary figures who are mentioned in Revelation 11:1-14. Some Christians interpret this as two people, two groups of people, or two concepts.