Death is Not The End of Us:

     For us as Christians we have come to know that we will inherit promises Jesus spoke about before he was crucified and risen.  We know that death is inevitable like with everyone but with a surprise ending!  We will rise again and not only live again but will live to inhabit another earth with another Jerusalem as it's center of rule and government.   Far Fetched?  No not really.  There are harder things to understand and far wilder, such as super-string theory, the theory of everything... antimatter, worlds within worlds, wormholes, time travel, side by side dimensions and alternate realities existing alongside of ours with us in it just ,,,different people!   So why not another earth? With us in it? Again!  Hard to think of?   Sounds more plausible to me.  Here's what Isaiah said nearly 2800 years ago....
     “See, I will create

    new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
    nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
    and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
    and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
    will be heard in it no more.

“See, I will create
    new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
    nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
    and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
    and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
    will be heard in it no more.

20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses and dwell in them;
    they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
    or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
    so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
    the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,
    nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
    they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call I will answer;
    while they are still speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
    and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.

          So these words penned or should I say scribed thousands of years ago paint a pretty impossible but good picture for those who trust in God.  Failing to live to a hundred and considered accursed? The days of a man will be like a tree...hundreds of years old.   Houses lived in no longer taken away by what?  Bad credit? Loans? Death prematurely?  Even more delightful..we will and can enjoy our work!  That in itself should be something to be hoped for.  A lion that eats straw..yes I'm for that since I lost my cat to a mountain lion three months ago. Eaten.  Sorry but it's true I live in Colorado and the lions range when they are hungry into our territory.  So I believe with all my heart and faith that these things will be true.  Those who have not acquainted themselves with the Gospel..read on. It's so much more that a book of stories, but of lives lived. Impossible men and impossible women in impossible situations God had redeemed from lives that could have been ho-hum but instead.....
                               A man in lion's den and lives
                               Boys in fiery furnaces and lived
                               Servant girl to Queen (Esther)
                               Adolescent killing a giant (David)
                               Sailing a giant  boat across a landless globe for one hundred and fifty days
                               World's strongest man: subdued by a beautiful woman (Delilah)
                               Walls that fell flat (because of sympathetic vibrations? or God intervening?
                     
                                          You be the judge!  Fantastic stories, how come they don't happen now?  Because the Spirit of God has fallen to those that believe and did so two thousand years ago and will continue until The Lord comes again... and he will.  We are the fantastic story now..........