2 Peter 3:13 and Revelation 21:1 speak of a new heaven, a new earth -- echoing the words of Y'shayahu / Isaiah 65:17: "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the first ones shall not be remembered, neither shall they come into mind. . ." The Christian bible may reference the terms of new heaven and new earth -- but they ignore the context. No doubt it is ignored because Jesus failed to fulfill the words of the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah is speaking of the actual messianic era -- when the world will be at peace, the Jews returned to the land of Israel from exile and there will be global knowledge of G-d as the one true G-d. In the messianic age the world will swear in the Name of G-d "For whoever himself on the earth shall bless himself by the true G-d, and whoever swears on the earth shall swear by the true G-d, for the first troubles have been forgotten and they have been hidden from My eyes." Y'shayahu / Isaiah 65:16. The world does not swear to the one true G-d -- not 2000 years ago and not today. This prophecy was not fulfilled by Jesus. Isaiah goes on to say that there will be no wars because we’ll all be on the same side. Again -- this has not yet happened -- there are wars, there is hatred. . . there is not yet a “new Heaven and a new Earth” meaning a whole new order when the lowly will be exalted and the arrogant will be humbled. It is easy enough for 2 Peter 3:13 and Revelation 21:1 to speak of a new heaven and new earth -- but these true messianic prophecies were not fulfilled by Jesus. Missionaries will claim that Jesus will fulfill these in the Second Coming, but Jewish sources show that the messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright; in the T'nach no concept of a second coming exists. In fact, the T'nach says when a person dies, "on that day his plans all perish." T'hillim / Psalm 146:4. The real messiah will fulfill the prophecies about his age in his lifetime. The Rambam writes in the Mishneh Torah (Hilchot M'lachim 12:5): “In that era, there will be neither famine or war, envy or competition for good will flow in abundance and all the delights will be freely available as dust. The occupation of the entire world will be solely to know G-d. Therefore, the Jews will be great sages and know the hidden matters, grasping the knowledge of their Creator according to the full extent of human potential, as Isaiah 11:9 states: 'The world will be filled with the knowledge of G-d as the waters cover the ocean bed."
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