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  COMMENTARY ON REVELATION 21-22
  by Chuck Smith
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I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away (Rev 21:1);

Now, we are beyond the thousand years. The first heaven is passed away.
Peter tells us it passes away with a great noise with a fervent heat as
the elements are dissolved.

Now, God spoke the universe into existence. And in speaking it into
existence, He spoke into existence a scientific puzzle. For in speaking
matter into existence, He brought the protons and electrons and
assembled them together. And in creating the atoms, and bringing into
the heart of the atom, the protons tightly knit together in the nucleus
of the atom, He violated the law of electricity, Collins Law, which
speaks of the repelling force of positive charges. Positive poles repel.
Try to put them together and they will fight each other. There is a
repelling force of positive charges, tremendously powerful repelling
force.

The atom bomb illustrates to us the true nature of an atom. For what is
happening is the nucleus of an atom is bombarded with slow moving
neutrons that upset the delicate balance of the protons in the heart of
the atom and it releases them. As it releases them, you have this
tremendous release of energy and power and you see the tremendous power
released when protons within an atom are set free. It is an equivalent
power that holds them together. It takes an equivalent power to hold the
nucleus of an atom together that is released when the nucleus is
unbalanced.

Now, God who holds together the universe by the word of His power, and
we are told this in the scripture; He created it by the word of His
power and by Him all things are held together. All He is going to do is
relax and let it go, and the whole material universe will go up in one
gigantic puff. The elements will be dissolved and melted with a fervent
heat. The heavens will be on fire. The whole material universe following
the natural laws with the protons repelling each other, and this whole
material universe will go out of existence in a moment\

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