Kevin DeYoung has a great post quoting Isaiah 65 and offering short commentary on it's implications for the new heavens and new earth. I'd like to quote the whole thing but that wouldn't be right - you need to go to Kevin's blog to read the whole thing but here's a few snippets of what will and won't be in the new heavens and earth per Kevin.
The ways of this world, with its sin and suffering, will be forgotten. You will never think of the affair you had, the abortion you had, the pornography you saw, the gossip you spread, the drugs you took, the pain you caused. . .
You will only hear gladness–laughter, singing, whistling, music, the sound of a buzzing party with your friends, the high-pitched excitement of a feast that is finally under way. And besides all this, God will rejoice and be glad in his people. . . .
There will be no cancer cells, no MS, no car accidents, no SIDS, no miscarriages, no ALS, no Trisomy 18. You won’t have to get blood tests, or chemo, or worry what the CAT-scan will say. Death shall be swallowed up in victory. . . .
And best of all, Jesus will be there. We will be able to see him, touch him, talk with him, ask him anything, learn from him, and most of all worship him. We will love to praise him and laud him. We will love to sing with brothers and sisters in a thousand different languages.
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