A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Questions about the Last Things

144. Q. What will happen to the righteous on the day of judgement?
          A. They shall live with Christ for ever, on a new heaven and a new earth.

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• Isaiah 66:2

  All these things my hand has made,

  and so all these things came to be,

  declares the Lord.

  But this is the one to whom I will look:

  he who is humble and contrite in spirit

  and trembles at my word.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
  

  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

• 2 Peter 3:10-13
  

  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

  Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

•  Revelation 21:1-4
  

  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He willdwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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