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   Revelation 21:3–4 speaks about the final state after judgment, not the   
   means by which sinners enter that state. Scripture never presents the   
   promise of a new heaven and new earth as the gospel itself, but as the   
   outcome secured by the gospel. John places Revelation 21 after the   
   resurrection, judgment, and removal of unbelief. He does not replace the   
   message of Christ’s cross with a future political or governmental   
   arrangement.   
      
   The Bible defines the gospel clearly and narrowly. Christ died for our   
   sins, He was buried, and He was raised on the third day (1 Corinthians   
   15:1–4, ESV). That message saves. No passage teaches that announcing a   
   future earth without wickedness saves anyone apart from faith in   
   Christ’s finished work. Revelation itself grounds victory in the blood   
   of the Lamb, not in allegiance to a system (Revelation 5:9; 12:11, ESV).   
      
   Revelation 21:3–4 comforts believers. It does not convert unbelievers.   
   John already addressed the means of cleansing earlier: “washed their   
   robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (Revelation 7:14,   
   ESV). Without that washing, exclusion remains certain, regardless of how   
   often someone speaks about a coming earth (Revelation 21:8; 22:15, ESV).   
      
   Matthew 24:14 defines the content of what must be preached. Jesus calls   
   it “this gospel of the kingdom,” which He had already defined as   
   repentance and forgiveness of sins through Him (Luke 24:46–47, ESV). The   
   kingdom gospel does not bypass the cross. The King establishes His   
   kingdom by His death and resurrection. There is no kingdom good news   
   without substitutionary atonement.   
      
   Appealing to 1 John 2:17 strengthens this point rather than weakening   
   it. John contrasts the passing world with doing the will of God. Earlier   
   in the same letter, he defines that will explicitly: believing in the   
   Son and resting in His atoning sacrifice (1 John 3:23; 2:1–2, ESV).   
   Eternal life comes through the Son, not through anticipation of an   
   improved earth.   
      
   Scripture never tells sinners to anchor hope in Revelation 21 while   
   ignoring Calvary. The order always runs the same: the cross first,   
   resurrection next, salvation now, glory later (Romans 8:30; 1 Peter   
   1:3–5, ESV). Remove the gospel, and Revelation 21 becomes unreachable   
   comfort, not saving truth.   
      
   The new earth answers mankind’s problems only because Christ answered   
   sin at the cross. Without that foundation, talk of God’s government   
   reduces to moralism and deferred hope. The Bible insists that   
   reconciliation happens now through the blood of Christ, or it does not   
   happen at all (2 Corinthians 5:18–21; John 14:6, ESV).   
      
   Thus, you promote yet another gospel-free, legalistic, self-righteous   
   one-uppery lecture that will lead men to hell while robbing them of the   
   saving gospel. You promote almost nothing but Bible-contradicting   
   heresy, and you can't accidentally keep doing this by mere   
   unintentional, sincere, coincidental oversight. You have to deliberately   
   LABOR to sear your conscience against the plain statements of the Bible   
   and exalt your own emotional preferences above Scripture to keep   
   insisting on your heresies.   
      
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   Have you heard the good news Christ died for our sins (†), and God   
   raised Him from the dead?   
      
   That Christ died for our sins shows we're sinners who deserve the death   
   penalty. That God raised Him from the dead shows Christ's death   
   satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin (Romans 3:25; 1 John   
   2:1-2). This means God can now remain just, while forgiving you of your   
   sins, and saving you from eternal damnation.   
      
   On the basis of Christ's death and resurrection for our sins, call on   
   the name of the Lord to save you: "For 'everyone who calls on the name   
   of the Lord will be saved'" (Romans 10:13, ESV).   
      
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