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A New Heaven and a New Earth

The first heaven and earth passing away, no more sea, and a city coming down. Scroll to watch it.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth have passed away; also there was no more sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:1-2, as St Irenaeus of Lyons gives it

The universe rose again in Him, the heaven rose again in Him, the earth rose again in Him, for there shall be a new heaven and a new earth.

Ambrose of Milan, On the Belief in the Resurrection II.102