A New Earth and a New Heaven
Quran (14:48), Old Testament: Isaiah (65:17), New Testament: Matthew (24:22) and Revelation (21:1): What does it all mean?
Well what it basically means is that within a short period of time most of the current world’s population will be dead. That means that a ‘New Earth’ will be formed from the old Earth or what can be said the ‘current Earth’ that we live on as it will undergo major and dramatic changes in its structure. The ‘New Heaven’ is a bit more complicated so we can just concentrate on the ‘New Earth’ bit!
What the world needs now is a robust, critical type of thinking skill rather than a narrow minded, haphazard and often immature, overbearing and self-glorification of the self! Self-glorification allows the blind to follow the blind. Hence, real growth cannot occur and the self is left with the ‘I’m (my glorious self is right) and anyone who opposes my viewpoints are wrong.
Bring your proof and subject it to a broad spectrum of analysis! Only mature individuals can do this, however.
Repeating phrases (any type but especially religiously based ones) without the proper content, context or thought processes are simply immature at best! Hence, the appropriate saying of ‘bring forth your evidence if you are telling the truth really does matter!
I partially touched upon this subject in Book #1 under the topic of Khasf or ‘land changes/weather patterns’ as it applies to the Middle East and also the topic of the Gog and Magog as it being applicable in the passages of Ezekiel (pbh) and hadith literature.
What the New Heavens and the New Earth means is that literally billions of people will die in a relatively short time frame (a matter of years not decades) and that the world will be ‘reshaped again’ as it has been in the past due to a combination of debilitating factors including world-wide hypocrisy, disbelief, arrogance, carnal or basal desires being spread about and an all-around general cruelty mixed with religious ignorance.
To put things into a clearer and more startling picture the quote from Matthew (24:22) should set the stage in that if conditions of this torment were to continue, then absolutely NO Human LIFE would be left on this planet!
And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. Matthew (24:22)
The elect are those who will be born into this beautiful kingdom to live righteously and to die in honor and thus to be of those who are truly blest.
However, the ‘heavens on Earth’ concept is going to be strictly regulated and united for the BELIEVERS that will inherit this somewhat lengthy kingdom concept under Jesus the Christ (pbh) who returns as a king who regulates and under the Mahdi and then the twelve Quraishi-type successors known as Caliphs.
Jabir b. Samura narrated that:
I heard the Messenger of ALLAH (pbh) say: Islam will continue to be {totally not partially} triumphant until there have been twelve Caliphs. Then the Prophet (pbh) said something which I could not understand. I asked my father: What did he (pbh) say? He said: He (pbh) has said that all of them (twelve Caliphs) will be from the Quraish. (Muslim)
This kingdom continues for a certain time even though Jesus (pbh) will only live for forty some odd years and then be buried along with Prophet Muhammad (pbh) and the first two Caliphs (hadith literature and chapter 53 in the Book of Isaiah – being buried with the RICH).
The GOD is ONE, the kingdom will be ONE and of course the religion will be ONE and that belief-system is known as Islam! This kingdom is but a stepping stone or a stage to the glorious Eternal LIFE in the Hereafter which is beyond the comprehension of man.
Periodically, the Earth gets recycled every several millennia or so but this will be a ‘major recycling job’ of vast proportions! The greatness of the people inhabiting this realm, for a space of time (called the 1,000 year kingdom in the Book of Revelation) has been described as people (the worshipers) being equivalent to the Sahaabah or better than them in a true hadith!
So we have a ‘heaven’ on Earth’ type of environment which has been picturesquely described in sound hadith literature.
This notion has repercussions when it comes to the Resurrection of the two groups of peoples (the acceptable ones and the rejected ones) and the atmosphere found in the grave before the Last Day of Judgment! It also shows the ‘two kingdoms’ of mankind (the one destined for eventual Paradise and the other one composed of the rejecters. And MIGHTY is the REJECTION of the ONE GOD on the group of rejecters!
Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus AND {also} for the Word of GOD {the Quran}, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the First Resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of GOD and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Revelation (20:1-6)
“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so {give} glad tidings to the strangers” (Sunan Ibn Majah and Sahih Muslim).
Jabir b. Samura narrated that: I heard the Messenger of ALLAH (pbh) say: Islam will continue to be {totally not partially} triumphant until there have been twelve Caliphs. Then the Prophet (pbh) said something which I could not understand. I asked my father: What did he (pbh) say? He said: He (pbh) has said that all of them (twelve Caliphs) will be from the Quraish. (Muslim)
After this period there will be the breaking down of society and the loosening again of Satan as exemplified in the Book of Revelation as to that of Satan being again loosened upon the world to those vagabonds who deserve little and will receive worse! Then, when the world will cease to exist as a ball containing life, the Day about which there is no doubt will be officially under way.
Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (pbh) said: ”By HIM in whose hand is my soul, a time would come upon the people when the killer would not know why he killed and the victim would not know why he was killed.” (Muslim)
With the mighty blasting force ‘never seen before’ (a Trumpism) the Israeli and US forces ripped through the country of Iran and their verbose, undemocratic and unethical regime like a lawnmower on a field of grass! So, how can the Anti-christ ever be confident of establishing his evil rule on the Believers? Won’t he be afraid from engaging these two mighty but arrogant countries?
The New Heavens and the New Earth article gives the answer to that question along with the appropriate Islamic materials speaking about the times before the second coming of the Christ (pbh)!
And what is there to keep back men from believing now that Guidance has come to them; nor from praying for Forgiveness from their LORD but that (they wait for) the ways of the ancients {cyclical destruction} to overtake them or the Wrath be brought to them face to face?
WE only send the Messengers to give glad tidings and to give warnings but the Unbelievers dispute with Vain Argument in order to weaken the Truth; and they treat MY SIGNS and Warnings as a jest.
And who does more wrong than one who is reminded of the Signs of his LORD but turns away from them, forgetting the deeds which his (very own) hands have sent forth {from before}? Verily WE have set veils over their hearts so that they will not be able to understand; and over their ears deafness. If you call them to Guidance, even then they will never accept Guidance.
But your LORD is Most Forgiving, Full of Mercy. If HE were to call them (at once) to account for what they have earned, then surely HE would have hastened their punishment: but they have their appointed time beyond {which includes multiple chances to repent} which they will find no refuge. Quran (18:55-58)
In combination with this, we find the concept of the ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ mentioned in the Book of Revelation to be expanded upon and defined by true Islamic hadiths. These Islamic hadiths are specific in describing what will cause these outbreaks.
As the saying goes: “There is nothing new underneath the Sun.” This suggests that what happened before will happen again meaning here that it is not a brand new creation or action. An example of this is that scientists have noted that there have been about 5 major extinction events in the history of planet Earth – not only one event. This concept is also reflected in the Quranic Verse (18:55-58).
Another example is the topic of Dukhan in Arabic denoting one of the Signs of the Last Day of Judgment. We don’t know when this major Sign will occur but trusting in our holy Prophet (pbh) we know that it will come about!
For example, much famine will ensue from that which is called ‘Dukhan’ in Arabic or Smoke in English which is the result of a stratospheric sulfate aerosol veil (or smoky projection) coming from volcanic activities and thusly impairing or reducing a worldwide agricultural growth. How can we know this? Simply by observation of human history!
The above activity happened, however, in a mild case in 1815 with the eruption of Mount Tambora which caused agricultural disruptions throughout the entire world for a space of time. Several volcanoes going off at once will cause a much more severe stratospheric sulfate aerosol veil (seen as smoke) and will affect worldwide agriculture much more severely causing a lot of famine-type conditions.
As to another ‘horseman’ type we find the concept of much killing as in wars/rumors of wars, mismanagement of human resources by corrupt and inefficient societies resulting in human carnage between various nations and various peoples by people with various mental illnesses or perceived societal grievances.
The Arabic knowledge for this comes from a warning by Prophet Muhammad (pbh) in accepted hadith literature concerning much kharj will occur in ‘these times’ and when pressed for its meaning he replied that kharj meant much killing.
Prophet Muhammad (pbh) said that much killing (kharj) will happen near the end of times. This is shown in various authentic hadiths where he stated that the HOUR will not come unless there is a great increase in killing and bloodshed. In Arabic this term (kharj) means killing and signifies times of great conflict as between various people and nations resulting in much violence leading up to the Day of Judgment (taken and adapted from an AI source).
Well, that covers ‘human violence’ but there is another horseman representing various outbreaks of plague-type diseases which will also affect populations. All of this stress is a SIGN and a WARNING for mankind to get it right with GOD but that will be a lot easier said than done as we find out in the reference above being described in Quran (18:55 – as in the following:
‘And what is there to keep back men from believing now that Guidance {from the Quran/true Islamic Guidance} has come to them, nor from praying for forgiveness from their LORD but that (they wait for) the ways of the ancients to overtake them or the WRATH be brought to them face to face?’)
And So It Goes!
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