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Revelation 21:5-6

The narrator is now, probably for the first time in Revelation, God himself. He had already said through Isaiah: "Behold, I am doing a new thing" (Isaiah 43:19). But that applied only to the nation; now it includes the universe.

Everything in Heaven and on Earth becomes New. This renewal is already beginning now among the children of God. "Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The Kingdom of God, 2,000 years ago, is now in the hearts of His People, His Church. Then it continues in the fulfillment of Christ's visible kingdom over all the Earth and then, perfectly, in the New Heaven and the New Earth. Then Creation itself will also be liberated. Reconciliation and salvation, liberation in the biblical sense of the word, is not only for the salvation of men's souls. It will also involve the salvation of their bodies. It is not about, as in Greek thought, the soul being freed from the body, but that the body itself is freed from everything that entered that body through sin: mortality, hereditary abnormalities, diseases, old age, weaknesses, apathy, and impotence. We use only a very small part of our brains. Their capacity could be infinitely greater, even now, were it not blocked by sin. How much greater then will be the potential of the newly created body. The body itself will be freed, along with Creation itself.

And John is commanded to write: FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL.

IT IS FULFILLED is literally: "They have been fulfilled". That is, all things are new. Also, the prophecies are fulfilled.

Verse 6 I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. God is the Creator and the Goal of life. Paul expressed the same idea in Romans 11:36: "For from him and through him and to him are all things."