The new creation will probably seem familiar to us. But there will also be new dimensions of life and joy we can’t even begin to fathom. Will the new creation to come resemble this creation as we know it? Will we recognize mountain ranges and the location of cities? Will we recognize metro skylines? Will we depend, in the new creation, on similar technologies like jets and cars and houses that resemble what we think houses should look like? Or will everything in the new creation be radically dissimilar? This is always a great question, on the discontinuity and continuity of what we can expect in the new creation. Today it comes to us from a podcast listener named Zack: “Pastor John, hello, and thank you for this podcast. As I continue to read Scripture, particularly about the events to come, I tend to get confused. I don’t really understand what’s meant by the new heavens and new earth. My confusion boils down to this: Will the new creation look a lot different than this world looks right now? Or will it be very similar? When the sin and sorrow is gone, what can we expect to see?” Read or listen to this interview at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/will-the-new-creation-look-like-this-one Find other recent and popular Ask Pastor John episodes: https://www.desiringgod.org/ask-pastor-john