A Jehovah's Witness states: "
"Next, the “poetic” promises regarding the earths eternality are confirmed as literal by Christ’s own words: At Mt. 5:5
Christ adopted the words of Ps.37 clearly showing that the promise of an
eternal earth held true. I don’t see even a hint of symbolism in
Christ’s words! Christ explicitly stated that God’s will for the earth
would certainly come about just as it would in heaven (Mt.6:9,10;
Isa.55:10,11. c.f., Mt 19:28; Eph.1:10; Rm. 8:21)."
Do any of these verses, listed by this JW, explicitly state a "Paradise on Earth"????
Watchtower - John Milton
11/15/2003 pg. 3
"The 17th-century English poet John Milton had no such pessimistic thoughts. In his epic poem Paradise Lost, he wrote that God created the earth to be a paradise home for the human family. That original Paradise was lost. However, Milton believed that it would be restored—that a redeemer in the person of Jesus Christ would one day “reward his faithful, and receive them into bliss . . . in Heaven or Earth.” Milton confidently declared: “For then the Earth shall all be Paradise.”"