Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, and be LED FORTH with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.
The place is pictured as:
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 11:6
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy shall lead them.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat down on them, nor any scorching heat;
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall LEAD them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
In this new earth, let's call it Paradise, there are animals, there is a moon and a sun, men work and eat, and live and die... but there are no ferocious animals ... people are happy and without fears away from the influence of the Devil.
The economic system will be vastly different than what we have on this Earth:
Isaiah 55:1
"Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk WITHOUT money and without cost.
Paul also mentioned a person he knew who visited paradise -- a place away from this earth.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a man was caught up to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:3
And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows--
2 Corinthians 12:4
was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.
Christ promised us that He would return to take us to be with him to one of the "abodes" that He was going to prepare for us John 14:1-3. Obviously, this first return will be to take us out of this planet, to the abode He is getting ready for us.
We must not confuse the Battle of Armageddon with the Rapture; because in the Battle of Armageddon Christ returns to Earth to stay for a thousand years (the Millennium), whereas in the Rapture, Christ comes and leaves with his followers.
See The Rapture.
In contrast to the new heaven and new earth of the Rapture, there will be another new heaven and new earth which God will create after the Millennium, after the throne judgment and the second resurrection Re 21:1.
In this new earth created after the Millennium there will be no death, no moon, no sun, and no sea. This new earth is created after the Earth we live in now is destroyed, after "....death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire" Re 20:14.
In this new earth, there will be no night, it will always be daylight, men will not need to sleep. God will reside in the city called New Jerusalem which will be brought down from heaven into this "new earth"
This new earth is the place Christ promised the thief when He stated:
Luke 23:43
And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to you this day you shall be with me in PARADISE.
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