We're joined again by author and speaker Randy Alcorn sitting in this week for John

Piper.

We're calling it Heaven Week and in Monday's episode, number 359, Randy, you said this,

if there's a new Jerusalem, why not a new Los Angeles, why not a new Chicago, why not

a new Paris, why not a new London?

End quote.

So I want to pick up on this today and ask about travel.

Will we travel around leisurely and explore the new earth, assuming there will be cities

we travel to these cities and will we travel to other planets and explore the universe?

Given the reality that the new earth will correspond to the old earth in the same way that our

new bodies will correspond to our old bodies, a better version of the same, but not fundamentally

different except in the sense of perfected, glorified, always healthy, not subject to death

and suffering and all of that because we're no longer under the curse.

Therefore I think the natural understanding would be that travel on the new earth and

the resurrection would be similar to travel as it is now.

We can walk, the new Jerusalem has streets, streets are made for walking, they could be

also made for riding horses, there could be automobiles, there could be jet engines and

travel, air travel, there could be space travel, all of these things, that in fact there's

no reason at all to think there wouldn't be because this is not the new earth, what

we see in Revelation 21 and 22 and for that matter in Isaiah 60, 65, 66 and other new earth

passages is that you would expect people to do what they've been able to do except do

it better, our minds will be better, our bodies will be healthier, so will we run?

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