God Beyond Religion: A New Humanity and a New Earth Where Justice Dwells

 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.