Consumation

The Visible Return of Christ to the Earth

Revelation 19:11-16

  1. Old world order of the anti-God city Babylon/Rome is destroyed (Revelation 17-18 )
  2. The Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet are delivered to the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10 ).
  3. The evil unbelieving “earth dwellers” are judged at the Great White Throne (Revelation 20:11-15

The Garden of Eden is Restored

  1. The New Heavens and the New Earth are formed (Romans 8:19-21 , Revelation 21:1-4 , Revelation 22:1-5 ).
  2. Christians are liberated from the presence of sin, and obtain their resurrection bodies (Romans 8:22-25 , 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 , 2 Corinthians 5:1-5 ).
  3. God will receive His rightful glory, and Christ will sit at His right hand (Romans 11:36 , 1 Corinthians 15:28 , Revelation 21:22 ).

“And as Aslan spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read; which goes on forever in which every chapter is better than the one before.” (The Last Battle, Lewis, C. S. chapter 5)