Y8 – Everlasting Life – Revelation 21: 1-4
Key Words: Kingdom Building, Eternal Life, Heaven, Beauty, Bride of Christ, God’s People
- Which part of this passage are you most looking forward to in eternity?
- What does the idea of the New Jerusalem being a bride beautifully dressed for her husband speak to you?
- How beautiful must something be for God to call it beautiful or for him to make a special attempt to make it beautiful?
- This passage uses a wedding metaphor; how and where do we see other wedding metaphors in the Bible to describe the relationship between God and his people?
- What does the wedding metaphor reveal about the kind of relationship we will have with God at that time?
- Describe the old order that has passed away?
- How much of this world’s brokenness, pain and suffering is caused by sin either directly or indirectly?
- What is implied by the idea that there will be no more death, mourning, crying or pain?
- Does this passage imply there will be no more sin?
- What would it be like to live in a world with no sin?
- How is verse 3 a consummation of God’s ultimate kingdom and his design for people from the beginning of creation?
- Do you agree with the author that this idea is the metanarrative of scripture: “I will be your God and you will be my people?”
- Why is this kind of relationship with God the most enriching and satisfying relationship a person can have?