Revelation 21: 3-4
I heard a loud shout from the Throne, saying, "Look, God's home is now among His People! He will live with them, and they will be His people. God Himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever . . .
This is the Future God has planned for us. This is the End of the Story, our Story of living in this World. This World will not last forever, because it is cursed by our sin. So God is letting the Story play out, through all the ages of man, all the cycles of environmental changes, all the generations of the different variations of this Race of Man on all the continents of this Earth, and, maybe even, on other Planets of this Galaxy and Universe in which we live.
Because of our sin, times will get worse as we near the culmination of Time as we know it. The Good is getting better and the Evil is getting worse, with less and less middle ground in between. It's getting to be all Black-and-White, with no more grey; obvious who are God's and who are deceived by the enemy.
Then Jesus will return.
But after Earth's Golden Age, it will be finished. Everything we know, the whole World, the Earth itself, the whole Universe will be done away, having completed all the purposes for which it was all made. And there will be the New Heaven (Universe) and a New Earth (World to live in). And it will be perfect. A new story will begin.
And God will share it with us!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
