“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”
Cross references: : Isa. 65:17 ; Isa. 66:22 2 Pet. 3:13 Now followeth the second part of the history prophetical (as I said, Rev. 1 and 11:1) of the future estate of the Church in heaven after the last judgment, unto the fifth verse of the next chapter, in this are two things briefly declareth. The station, seat, or place thereof, verse 1 . Then her state and condition in the verses following. Before the state of the Church described, is set down the state of the whole world, that there shall be a new heaven, and a new earth, as Isa. 65:17 and 66:12 and 2 Pet. 3:13 , and this is the seat or place of the Church, in which righteousness shall dwell.