In Isaiah, chapter twenty-four, verse twenty-three, after casting down all evil powers, God’s kingdom will come to the earth, and the Lord will reign there, as in Revelation eleven, verse fifteen, chapter twenty-one, verses one through nine, verse twenty-three, and chapter twenty-two, verse five, respectively. Only then will God receive glory and honor due Him.
The lasting goal and Biblical expectations of the reclaimed are a new, transformed, and redeemed world where Christ lives with His people and righteousness dwells in holy perfection. To erase all traces of sin, there will be the destruction of the earth, stars, and galaxies. Heaven and earth will be shaken and will vanish like smoke; the stars will be dissolved, and the elements will be destroyed. The new Earth will become a dwelling place of both humans and God. All the redeemed will possess bodies like Christ’s resurrection body, one that is real, visible, and tangible, but incorruptible and immortal.
The effects of sin, such as sorrow, pain, unhappiness, and death, are gone forever, for the evil things of the first heaven and earth have completely passed away. Believers, although remembering all things worth remembering, will evidently not remember that which would cause them sorrow. God Himself declares who will inherit the blessings of the new heaven and the new earth. Those who faithfully persevere as Christ’s overcomers. Those who do not overcome Satan, sin, and ungodliness will be thrown into the fiery lake.
God mentions several classes of people whose place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The “fearful” are those who fear the disapproval and the threat of people more than they value loyalty to Christ and the truth in His Word. Their personal safety and status on earth mean more to them than faithfulness to God. The “fearful” includes the compromisers among God’s people who give up the fight and do not overcome.