WHEN HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY

Many people were taught
that “heaven and earth passing away”
means the planet will be destroyed
and a few will escape somewhere else.

That is not what Scripture is saying.

If the kingdom of God
is ever increasing,
if peace has no end,
if the reign of Christ never stops expanding,
then annihilation cannot be the meaning.

The gospel is not escape.
It is invasion.

“On earth as it is in heaven”
was not a metaphor.
It was a mission.

In Scripture,
“heaven and earth” is covenant language.
It is temple language.
It is the language of meeting places.

The temple was called
the place where heaven and earth met.

When Jesus speaks of
heaven and earth passing away,
He is not talking about the destruction of creation.

He is announcing the end
of an old temple structure.

An old system
where access to God
was mediated by buildings,
priests,
sacrifices,
and separation.

When Jesus says,
“Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will never pass away,”
He is declaring that
the old meeting place
is coming to an end.

Not because God is distant,
but because God is nearer than ever.

This is why the veil was torn.

The place where heaven and earth met
was no longer a location.
It was a people.

This is why Paul says
you are the temple of God.

Creation is not being discarded.
The temple is being relocated.

From stone
to flesh.

From buildings
to bodies.

From an external structure
to an internal reality.

The prophets never foresaw
a God who destroys the world
and calls it victory.

They foresaw a world
filled with the knowledge of God
as the waters cover the sea.

They foresaw swords becoming plowshares.
They foresaw peace expanding.
They foresaw nations healed.

Fear teaches destruction.
Love teaches transformation.

If the kingdom of God is within you,
then the renewal of the world
begins within you.

If heaven is breaking into earth,
then earth is not being abandoned.
It is being redeemed.

The belief that everything will burn
and only a few will escape
does not produce love.
It produces apathy.

Why care for the earth
if it is disposable?
Why love neighbors
if everything is ending?

That belief did not come from Jesus.
It came from reading symbolism
through fear.

Jesus did not come
to save souls from earth.

Jesus came
to reunite heaven and earth
through transformed people.

The end Jesus spoke of
was the end of an age,
not the end of existence.

The end of separation.
The end of temple systems.
The end of fear-based religion.

And the beginning
of heaven made visible on earth.

That is why the kingdom expands.
That is why peace has no end.
That is why love never fails.

Nothing is being thrown away.

Everything is being made new.

What fear calls destruction,
love calls restoration.
The temple was never lost,
it was relocated.
Heaven did not leave the earth,
it moved inside you.
And where Spirit dwells,
creation remembers its home.