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"These concluding images [of a new heaven, a new earth, and a new Jerusalem] depict the heart of Revelation's eschatology and show the hope toward which all the cosmic conflict moves. ...Revelation's ultimate concern is not with the end of the world, but with the end of evil that distorts creation. The destruction of evil in [the prior reading] marks the end of the first heaven and the first earth, clearing the way for the establishment of God's reign of justice on earth....John's vision of the future is creation affirming, not creation denying; his vision is not of a heavenly city, but of a new city that God sends from heaven to earth. This vision of a restored and renewed creation is consistent with the eschatological hopes of the Hebrew Scripture."
O'Day and Peterson, Theological Bible Commentary, p 478.
O'Day and Peterson, Theological Bible Commentary, p 478.
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