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Jan 30, 2015 · There will be a river in heaven, not of water, but of the “water of life” (22:1, 17). [3] On the other hand, Randy Alcorn, who admits to enjoying snorkeling, is troubled by the prospect that oceans and the wonder-evoking creatures that inhabit them would have no place in consummation of God’s new creation.
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Revelation 21:1 says, “Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” There is no reason not to take this literally, that God’s new earth will not contain vast areas of salt water spanning the globe.
Mar 18, 2010 · Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean. The new heavens and the New Earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, there is literally to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and shelly shores.
Jan 1, 2001 · Most students who approach the book of Revelation from the normal or literal method of interpretation understand the words following the statement about the new heaven and new earth, “and there is no longer any sea” to simply mean that because of the changes in atmospheric and human conditions will be so different water as we know it today ...
Jun 6, 2018 · Revelation 21:1. Does this verse mean there will be no oceans in the new heaven and earth? No large bodies of water and therefore no dolphins or whales to swim with? No snorkeling or surfing?
Because we know that there will be a sea in Heaven (of a different sort altogether), we know that the "sea" spoken of in Revelation 21:1 cannot be referring to any literal "sea," but must be a figure.
Aug 18, 2014 · The new heaven and the new earth will be purified. There will be no room for evil in the new order. A hint of the quality of the new heaven and new earth is found in the somewhat cryptic words, "Also there was no more sea" (Rev. 21:1).
