I've been reading through the book of Revelation this spring. Revelation 21 talks about the new heaven and new earth. It cross-references
Isaiah 66:22, " They shall not build and another inhabit. They
shall not plant and another eat. The elect shall enjoy the work of
their hands."
It reminded me of our last house... all the gardening and things we
did to make it nice, and then another inhabited it. We had a flourishing little vegetable garden in our backyard the summer that we moved. The house we moved to had more land, but no garden. I
remember thinking about it after we moved - that the people who inhabited our former house
were eating the harvest that we had planted.
The lesson could be that within our striving to improve and
beautify our personal areas, we want to keep God's kingdom as the
ultimate goal. Heaven and earth will pass away, but God's word will
never pass away.
In this new heaven and new earth, that Isaiah speaks of,
the elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. So, gardening will be a part of the new earth! Gardening without the
effects of the curse. No weeds, pests or drought. No poison ivy. Delicious tomatoes.
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