Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

History as a record of the past exists in three forms; written, archeological and institutional memory. Written is an analogue left by the victors, archeology is the physical remains left to be unraveled through examination and comparison, while institutional memory is past down from person to person and is relevant in importance to the receiving generation only as it can find value in life.

All history takes on a role to teach us the values of cause and effect. Which form you adhere to does not matter, its only value is in cause and effect. It presumes importance as a tool to lift the veil of ignorance. Now we have this promise that in new creation of heavens and a new earth, history will cease to exist.

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Here we have a word of everlasting presence, we will no longer go out from the presence of the Lord. We will be with Him always. There is also one more piece of the puzzle of the new life which I find interesting.

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

No more sea. Throughout the bible the sea, oceans, pools, wells, waters and rivers have always been used as a way to relate to us the movement of the Holy Spirit in power and effect. This ends. Not that the Holy Spirit ends because He is God and God is One and eternal, but the role of the Holy Spirit as it relates to us through the scriptures will end.

Given that everything we knew, know and imagine will be gone and we will have no helper to show us, why do we insist on trying to define that which is not possible to imagine?

Vanity.

Mark 4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

Do you find it strange that Jesus would say this in the middle of three parables which compare earthly things with the kingdom? Think of this then, the kingdom itself is an image of an earthly thing. These things have been given so that we can in some way relate to something we have nothing to compare it with in the world.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

At the time of this saying in Isaiah the heavens were only that which could be seen with the human eye. They had no way of knowing at that time the scope and vastness of God’s creation. Now we see endless space that is so far reaching that the size of it boggles the best of minds. God’s Word is still true, it just got bigger in scope and complexity.

Yet compare we do, because we desire to understand and we can only relate to things we can see, touch and investigate. Paul tells us in Romans 8 that our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared to the glory to come. Suffering is something we can relate to because it is a human experience. Glory on the other hand is the essence of who God is in power and performance.

If you consider these two things to be true in God’s word, why do we continue to try and understand that which is incomprehensible in human terms?

Because it makes us feel better.

And so since these things make us feel better, Jesus spoke in parables and explained them to His disciples so that we all could be comforted.