A New Canvas For A New Creation?

I was reading in 2 Peter this a.m. and the thought occured to me of just how

shortsighted our thoughts seem about heaven, at least as I was taught to believe.

We talk about streets of gold, rejoining loved ones for eternity, but then there is Revelation 20:4-5, "they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection", then what happens?

When looking at the big picture it's not as simple as we might profess!

I was raised with timelines and charts crafted by "dispensationalists", and perhaps all that may occur, but what do we do with the likes of the verses in 2 Peter 3:10, 12:

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." Then, vs.12 "...looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?"

As I ponder creation, I have to wonder the role of the massive galaxies that seem to serve no purpose in the Bible's Creation story.

Yet, given the thread that begins in Genesis 3:15, foretelling the One who would crush the head of the serpent, followed by the Law, then the prophets that would challenge Judaism, there seemed more to their story, and then, Christ was born just as prophesied, "a Babe in Bethlehem!

These writings seem surely inspired.

So, perhaps there was a plan for habitation of these vacant spheres, somehow interrupted by "the Fall"?

Yet for eons this massive "multifamily" development which we refer to as the grand universe with its "subdivions called galaxies sits barren, dormant, and per scripture, awaits complete destruction..."the elements will melt in the heat."

Sounds strange to those like myself raised to hold literal their understanding of scripture though grounded in a knowledge base and a science that has since matured far beyond the days that Moses, Peter, Paul walked the earth with Jesus.

Maybe there was a plan that the descendants of Adam would never die but longterm, inhabit these ever expanding galaxies, which now they sit idle.

Perhaps 2 Peter, like much of these inspired prophetic texts foretell a day when a clean slate for our eternal existence is needed.

As John captured in the Revelation 21:1-4, where he described "a place where God dwells with humanity and there is no more death, sorrow, or pain!

Even before John, Isaiah 65:17, reads of God's promises to create "new heavens and a new earth" where the former troubles are forgotten!"

Sounds like new canvas and a complete do over still awaits?

Just how I think after 50 years of scrutiny of religion's fear-fixed revelation, now open to the glorious freedom in Christ, the "Word" that was God, who continues to speak revelation well beyond the text if one is attuned to the Spirit.

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