Eternal LifePrøve

On the New Earth, There Is No Place for Death and Pain When the first humans rebelled against God, it led to dramatic consequences. Just as the Lord had warned them beforehand, their sin led to pain and death. “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Ever since then, suffering has been part of human life. Some of it is caused by fellow humans. Other kinds of suffering are a result of the brokenness of this present world or of our own wrong choices in life. All in all, life often contains more thorns than roses. Moses even complains: “The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble” (Psalm 90:10). When Jesus Christ paid for all of humanity’s sin, He also conquered death as the consequence of sin. He fulfilled God’s promise in Isaiah 25:8, that the Lord would “swallow up death forever,” and would “wipe away tears from all faces”. All those horrible effects of brokenness and sin—mourning, crying, pain—will be no more in His glorious future. What a joy it must be to live like that, together with all fellow believers, forever and ever! Eternal life with God is correctly called “paradise”!