New Heaven +New Earth; Day595; Day01-Dual Survival

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. Isaiah 65:17

Quadrant I-Urgent and Important
1Mile Swim
Day01-Dual Survival [just me and Brent for 3 weeks]

Reading List
Sharepoint 2010 Search Pro, p30

24Hour Report
0445, End of Sleep,
0505, Coffee, bagel
0510, Bible Study Isaiah 65:17 [read more]

“New Heaven and New Earth”
    Heaven
        Heaven is home
        Heaven is permanent
        Heaven is beautiful beyond imagination
        Heaven is filled with joy [no more sadness]
        Heaven is where families and friends will be reunited
    New Heaven denotes:
        Great transformation [a change in you]
        Spiritual change [spiritual eyes are opened]
        You see things differently
        Future state of the righteous
    New Earth denotes:
        Earth is where we are presently living
        Conditions are changed to the new earth [surroundings] [when faith in God is established]
        The way we live and conduct business is changed [Christ-like everything]
        New ways of doing things [Bible: Word of God as reference]
        New ways of dealing a situation or an issue [always listening to the Holy Spirit]
        Forgetting the past [those that happened a minute ago-let it go]
        We look forward to the new earth [never look back][there is more to see when we look forward]

Barnes on Isa 65:17 –
For behold – The idea in this verse is, that there should be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were to be made.

I create new heavens – Calamity and punishment in the Bible are often represented by the heavens growing dark, and being rolled up like as a scroll, or passing away (see the notes at Isa_13:10; Isa_34:4). On the contrary, prosperity, happiness, and the divine favor, are represented by the clearing up of a cloudy sky; by the restoration of the serene and pure light of the sun; or, as here, by the creation of new heavens (compare the notes at Isa_51:16). The figure of great transformations in material things is one that is often employed in the Scriptures, and especially in Isaiah, to denote great spiritual changes (see Isa. 11; Isa_51:3; Isa_35:1-2, Isa_35:7; Isa_60:13, Isa_60:17). In the New Testament, the phrase used here is employed to denote the future state of the righteous; but whether on earth, after it shall have been purified by fire, or in heaven, has been a subject of great difference of opinion (see 2Pe_3:13; Rev_21:1).
The passage before us is highly poetical, and we are not required to understand it literally. There is, so far as the language is concerned, no more reason for understanding this literally than there is for so understanding the numerous declarations which affirm that the brute creation will undergo a change in their very nature, on the introduction of the gospel Isa. 11; and all that the language necessarily implies is, that there would be changes in the condition of the people of God as great as if the heavens, overcast with clouds and subject to storms, should be recreated, so as to become always mild and serene; or as if the earth, so barren in many places, should become universally fertile and beautiful. The immediate reference here is, doubtless, to the land of Palestine, and to the important changes which would be produced there on the return of the exiles; but it cannot be doubted that, under this imagery, there was couched a reference to far more important changes and blessings in future times under the Messiah – changes as great as if a barren and sterile world should become universally beautiful and fertile.

For the former shall not be remembered – That is, that which shall be created shall be so superior in beauty as entirely to eclipse the former. The sense is, that the future condition of the people of God would be as superior to what it was in ancient times as would be a newly created earth and heaven superior in beauty to this – where the heavens are so often obscured by clouds, and where the earth is so extensively desolate or barren.

Nor come into mind – Margin, as Hebrew, ‘Upon the heart.’ That is, it shall not be thought of; it shall be wholly forgotten. On this verse, compare the notes at Isa_51:16.