A New Heaven and a New Earth
We have come now to the full manifestation of the new creation that God has created in Christ. All that God declared in the first chapter of Genesis concerning the creation of man has been accomplished.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Revelation 21:1)
We can examine the relationship of the thousand-year Kingdom Age to the new heaven and earth reign of Christ by employing three figures from the Old Testament: (1) the Davidic and Solomonic kingdoms; (2) the incorporating of the Ark of the Covenant and the remainder of the Tabernacle of the Congregation in the Temple of Solomon; and (3) the Levitical feasts, in particular the Day of Atonement and the feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:27-44).