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It all passes away.

This heaven and earth seems as if it will pass away.  Even Revelation seems to say that it will 

Revelation 21:1 NIV
[1] Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

The first heaven and the first earth will pass away.  Christians I've noticed look at scripture like this and deside that the earth and all that's in it are not worth our care or consern. It's all going to pass away so why bother. Maybe that's not what they think but it feels like that sometimes. 

Personally I tend to forget that this heaven and earth are never going to pass away. Yesterday though as I was rereading Revelation 21 I was reminded.  As I sat and thought about that I felt a little sad. I felt sad because this first heaven and earth is passing away because of sin and it wasn't supposed to be like this. Sometimes, actually more than sometimes, I wonder what this heaven and earth were like before we brought sin into the equation, before our sin brought death. 

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