““The third act of the biblical story is the completion of God’s work of redemption, the culmination of his plan for his creation in the re-creation of all things in a new heaven and a new earth. Rather than destroying the earth and replacing it with a new earth, God plans to re-create the earth he had cursed.26 In the culmination of his plan of redemption in the eschatological state, God does not take his creatures to be with him; rather, he moves into their world. Rather than taking us to be with him in heaven, God will bring heaven to earth. The Creator will move into our neighborhood forever (Rev. 21–22).””
