Hi,
"Can someone explain Paradise earth for me."
No problems, it is very simple.
So what is "paradise" in the bible?
Luke 23:43 (New International Version)
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
2 Corinthians 12:3-4 (New International Version)
3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell.
2 Corinthians 12:2 (New International Version)
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.
So Jesus and Paul said if they died they would be in paradise or third heaven (the righteous).
OK see below for the resurrections.
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Revelation 21:1-3 (New International Version)
The New Jerusalem
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
Revelation 21:10 (New International Version)
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
Clearly, paradise (the new Jerusalem) will be on the new earth as it comes down out of heaven.
So here is THE most important bit.
Hebrews 9:27 (New International Version)
Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=73&chapter=20&version=31
Satan's Doom
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Dead Are Judged
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Those in the first resurrection are those that died in the tribulation and did not worship the beast. The rein with Christ for 1000 years (the Millennium). Then there is a battle at the place called Armageddon (Rev 16:16). After this the rest of the dead are resurrected (second resurrection). Those whose names are in the Lamb's (Jesus') book of life go to live with Him in the New Jerusalem for ever and ever. Those who's names are no are tormented in the lake of fire, day and night for ever and ever.
Don't believe that or want to believe that or think that Jesus is not talking literally?
Matthew 18:9 (New International Version)
And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Mark 9:47-48 (New International Version)
47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where
" 'their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.'[a]
Matthew 7:19
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Isaiah 66:23-24 (New International Version)
23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me," says the LORD. 24 "And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Hope that helps!
All the best,
Stephen
