Is our final home going to be heaven or the new earth?

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The Bible mentions heaven as our destination when we die and God’s creation of the new earth. Are we going to stay in heaven when Jesus returns, or are we going to live on the new earth forever? What do you think the Bible teaches?
 
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I've heard arguments both ways, but I always ask myself why would God make a new earth if it was not to live in?

As for me, I imaging I'll find out when I get there.
 

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The Bible mentions heaven as our destination when we die and God’s creation of the new earth. Are we going to stay in heaven when Jesus returns, or are we going to live on the new earth forever? What do you think the Bible teaches?

He taught us to pray-- Our Father.... Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

And that's how it always was and always will be. One, an image of the other. As above, so below.

While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

"A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever."

"The righteous will inherit the land and dwell upon it forever."


The answer then, to your question, is-- both.
 

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Here are some relevant Scripture verses for your edification:

Luk_24:51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

Act_1:11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Mrk_13:27 And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

Php 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Php 3:21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

1Th 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband....
Rev 21:9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal....
Rev 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

I draw the conclusion that our final home will be the new earth that God will create when Jesus returns. The new Jerusalem is a symbolic picture of the whole people of God, who will come down to the new earth in our resurrection bodies, where we will live and reign over the new universe with God forever.
 
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