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Tami Jelinek

Covenantal Heavens & Earth/

Creation/Local Flood

At the beginning of the Bible, the creation of “the heaven and the earth” refers to the beginning of God’s covenant relationship with His people. At the end of the Bible, the creation of “the new heavens and the new earth” refers to the restoration and renewal—the recreation or regeneration--of that covenant relationship. Neither the beginning of the Bible nor the end of the Bible refers to the creation of a geographic location or a biological race. It’s about a covenant people, not a cosmological race or place.  Tami Jelinek, The Heavens: Conscience or Cosmos?, http://www.newcreationministries.tv/Articles/heavensconscience.htm

We have been studying “the heavens” as a metaphor in Scripture for God’s people. More specifically, we have looked at examples of the phrase “the heavens and the earth” referring to God’s people in covenant relationship with Him. In the Old Heavens and Old Earth, “the heavens” refers to the guilty consciences of God’s people under the judgment of “the old earth”, or Old Covenant law. In the New Heavens and New Earth, “the heavens” refers to the cleansed, guilt-free consciences of God’s people under “the new earth”, or the New Covenant law of Christ.Tami Jelinek, The Heavens: Conscience or Cosmos?,

(Comment:  Here see the Genesis creation turned into something Moses never intended based upon misinterpretation of the "heavens and earth" of passages like II Peter 3 and Revelation 21, 22.  If one assumes that the eschaton was local and covenantal (confined to Israel and had to do with removal of the Old Law), a temptation arises to apply this concept to other occurrences of "heavens and earth."  However, it is absurd to argue that Moses intended to set forth a figurative account of the creation of Old  Testament Israel in Genesis 1-11.  The use of "heavens and earth" by the prophets was indeed figurative, but it was repeatedly used to describe times of wrath upon all nations, not just the Jews (Isa. 13,  34).  When the prophets use the collapsing universe model, they use it to describe national and political crisis among earth's nations.  Thus, it does the greatest violence to scripture to retro-fit a figurative interpretation of this phrase to Genesis upon the asserted basis that the eschaton was somehow confined to Jerusalem, when in fact it overtook Rome, Italy and the known world.)