This document outlines the topics covered in a 10-week study on eschatology or the doctrine of the last things. Week 8 focuses on the New Jerusalem, exploring what will be forgotten, restored, and remembered from our current lives as well as the size and nature of the New Jerusalem, whether we will recognize each other, and if there will be life outside the city. The study utilizes numerous Bible passages to shed light on these questions about what heaven and the new earth will be like.

1. TheFuture
The Doctrine of
Week 8:
“Set your mind on things above and
not on the things of this earth.”
Colossians 3:2
The New Jerusalem

2. Week 1: Introduction and Overview
June 23 - August 25
Week 2: What will the Second Coming be like?
Week 3: What Happens When We Die?
Break
Week 5:
Week 6:
*Picnic Sunday
What will accountability and rewards look like?
What will heaven be like?
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3. Break *Guest Speaker: Todd Funk
Week 7: The Millennium
Week 8:
Week 9:
Week 10:
What do we know about the New Jerusalem?
F.Y.I. B.T.W. C.T.C.A.F.O.
What will the New Earth be like?
June 23 - August 25
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4. TheFuture
The Doctrine of
Week 8:
“Set your mind on things above and
not on the things of this earth.”
Colossians 3:2
The New Jerusalem

6. HISTORY OF THE EARTH
“This is the history of the heavens and the
earth when they were created in the day that
the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.”
Genesis 2:4

7. Pre-Fallen Earth
Fallen Earth
New Earth
HISTORY OF THE EARTH

8. “For God is not unjust to forget your work
and labor of love which you have shown
toward His name, in that you have
ministered to the saints and do minister.”
Hebrews 6:10

9. “I have fought the good fight. I have finished
the race. I have kept the faith. Finally, there
is laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
to me on that Day, and not to me only, but to
all who loved His appearing.”
2 Timothy 4:7-8

10. “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on
earth… but lay up for yourself treasures in
heaven.”
Matthew 6:19
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord…
Their works follow them.”
Revelation 14:13

11. One New Dwelling Place
Revelation 21:1-5
V.3: The dwelling of God is with men
V.4: The curse of sin will pass away
V.5: “Behold I ‘make’…” Poleo (a continuing
process of making, creating)

12. The New Jerusalem
• Will we witness the recreation?
• What will be forgotten?
• What will be restored?
• What will be remembered (this life)?

13. The New Jerusalem
• How big will it be?
• Will we be ourselves?
• Will we learn, explore and grow?
• Will we recognize each other?
• Will there be life outside the city?

14. “To what were the foundations of the earth
fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together and
all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Job 38:6-7
Will we witness the recreation?

15. “We must all appear before the Judgment
Seat of Christ, that each one may receive
the things done in the body, according to
what he has done, whether good or bad.”
2 Corinthians 5:10
What will we remember from this life?

16. “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their
sin, I will remember no more.”
Jeremiah 31:34
What will be forgotten?
“Behold I create new heavens and a new
earth; and the former shall not be
remembered or come to mind.”
Isaiah 65:17

17. “Well done good and faithful servant. You
were faithful over a few things. I will make
you ruler over many things. Enter into the
joy of your Lord.”
Matthew 25:21
What will be restored?

18. Imperial Unit
“Furlong” = 220 yards
How big will the city be?

19. 1 Corinthians 15:47-49
Will we recognize each other?
Luke 24:39-42

20. Will there be life outside the city?
“I will make them and the places all around My hill (The
New Jerusalem) a blessing; and I will cause showers to
come down in their season; there shall be showers of
blessing. Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit,
and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe
in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 34:26

21. Will we be ourselves?
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
from now on. ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘that
they may rest from their labors, and their
works follow them.”
Revelation 14:13

22. “What we do now is not
discarded once we enter
eternity. What we learn
now is not erased in
heaven…

23. What we experience in
joy and understanding
and insight now is not
destroyed, but is the
foundation on which all
our eternal experience
and growth is based.”
Sam Storms

24. Will we learn, explore and grow?
“For now we see through a mirror dimly, but then, face
to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just
as I am known.”
1 Corinthians 13:12
“He has raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly place in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come,
He might show us the exceeding riches of His grace.”
Ephesians 2:6-7

25. TheFuture
The Doctrine of
eschatology: (es´kuh-tol´uh-jee)
The doctrine of the last things