The Stars Will Fall from Heaven
March 23, 2015 posted by Mason Slater Leave a Comment Today we are pleased to share the latest post in our new weekly series, Beyond the Book . This month J. Richard Middleton will be discussing interesting things he learned about eschatology while working on A New Heaven and a New Earth . Also, as part of this series we are giving away three copies of A New Heaven and a New Earth . The winners will be announced at the end of the month, and you can enter here . ——– “ Despite vivid apocalyptic imagery of stars falling from heaven, the Bible never imagines the literal destruction of the cosmos in the eschaton . ” – J. Richard Middleton Among the issues I addressed in A New Heaven and a New Earth were “problem texts” in the New Testament that seemed to suggest the destruction of the cosmos when Christ returns. I was already convinced that that the main thrust of New Testament eschatology is the redemption of creation —God wants to restore t...