Caller:  Are we going to be back on earth after the reign of the devil?

Pastor Doug:  The Bible tells us in Revelation 20 that Satan, of course, is bound for a thousand years; but then you get to Revelation 21 and it talks about the New Jerusalem coming down to earth.  And then ,of course, you’ve read in Matthew 5 where Jesus says “blessed are the meek….”  They will not inherit some celestial cloud—they inherit the earth.  So ultimately God is going to create a new heavens and a new earth, that’s II Peter 3:10, and the redeemed, after the millennium, are going to live in this earth made new where there is no more sin or sinners.

Caller:  He’s not going to blow the universe up, per se is He?

Pastor Doug:  Well, no, I don’t know that He’ll blow it up.  But the Bible does say in II Peter 3 “The Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will dissolve with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat.  I don’t know that I’d call it blowing the earth up.  So He’s going to recreate this planet the same way He did in Genesis.