2Pe 3:13 “But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.”
The Greek
word dikaiosune, translated as righteousness could be equally translated
justice. The biblical use is justification or righteousness, but I think that
being righteous is first and foremost being just. If one looks at the definition
of just it is actions and treatment of others based on behaving according to
what is morally right and fair. It is acting according to the golden rule. It
is doing to others what one would want done to themselves.
One of the
main characteristics of the “new humanity” is justice, kindness, and love. It
is my belief that one of the main focus points in Jesus’ mission was justice, kindness,
and love. Especially for the downtrodden and less fortunate. He told many
parables and one can be found in Matthew chapter twenty-five, verses,
thirty-one through forty-six. He tells a parable about a future judgment. He
says that the judge, a king will tell people that they have done justice. He
goes on to say, that when he was hungry, they fed him, when he was naked, they
gave him clothes, when he was homeless, they gave him shelter, and when he was
sick or in prison, they came to visit him and see about him. The just were
confused and they asked him when they did those things? They had no awareness
that they had done such for him. The judge king told them that when they did it
for the least of his brothers and sisters, they did it to him.
This parable
was a reaction to Isaiah chapter fifty-eight. The prophet told Israel that the
fast that God desired was to feed the hungry, clothe those in need of clothing,
and give shelter to the homeless. He went on to tell them that when they did
such things that their light would shine abroad. Jesus went on to teach that
when one does these good deeds to others that they are in reality doing it to
God. That makes sense in view of the fact that all of us humans are God’s image
bearers. We are all divine and participate in the divine nature.
Well above
is a description of just one of the aspects of humanity in the age of Aquarius
and likewise, it is a description of the traits of the new humanity that the
apostle Paul spoke of. Paul did this by way of mystical revelation that he
received from the source and passed it on to humanity. In view of eclectic
spirituality Jesus is not the only one who emphasized these humanitarian traits
as important. Here is what the Tao says about it: FALSE AND TRUE RELIGION
Abandon the pretense of saintliness and asceticism, and the people will pursue
virtue. Abandon ostentatious benevolence and conspicuous righteousness; then
the people will return to the core virtues of love and respect. Abandon
cleverness and greed; then thieves and robbers will disappear. Here are the four fundamentals of true
spirituality: recognize simplicity, cherish purity, reduce your possessions, diminish
your desires. Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching . Ancient Renewal. Kindle Edition.
So many are
erroneously looking for the new heaven and earth to be a future reconstruction
after a fiery cataclysmic end of the world. That could not be farther from truth.
Again, the apostle Paul mentions the ages to come, that is many ages (Ephesians
2:7.) It included the new age that was approaching in Paul’s day, the age of
Pisces, but it likewise also includes the ages to come, and now that we are
approaching or have entered the age of Aquarius, it will come to greater fruition.
The new
heavens, new earth and new humanity is not something to happen after a great
cataclysm but, the progressive improvement of humanity as the ages progress.
The same is true of the New Jerusalem. Another of Paul’s mystical revelations
in an understanding of what the New Jerusalem was. For Paul in Galatians
chapter four it was the heavenly Jerusalem. That means it was the ideal
Jerusalem that existed in heavenly places or in other words, in the divine
field of consciousness. Gal 4:22-26 “For it is
written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free
woman. (23) One, the child of the slave, was born according to the
flesh; the other, the child of the free woman, was born through the promise.
(24) Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One
woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery.
(25) Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the
present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. (26)
But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is
our mother.” What Paul is expressing here is that
the New Jerusalem is the Jerusalem made up of the new humanity that he wrote
about.
So, the
point of this is that the new heaven and earth, the new Jerusalem, the new
humanity was Paul’s way of expressing the idea that the gospel of God’s favor
and compassion, would move humanity to be more loving. This would be the result
of embracing and believing that God’s favor and compassion was expressed by the
mission of Jesus that proved we are all eternal and partakers of the divinity
that was ours from the very beginning.
Once we
embrace the idea that the source, God, is a loving, compassionate parent, who
is not keeping a record of wrongs, has reconciled the entire world to him and
herself, and the truth of it was proven by the death, burial and resurrection
of Jesus of Nazareth. We as children of the new humanity can begin to love with
all our being. We can love one another knowing that we are all a part and
parcel of divinity. This produces a love and peace that supernaturally transforms
humanity from one level to another on an ever upward spiral.
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