Personally, I've always believed that in the next age, God would just start all over again from Genesis 1. Populations (outside of those who have been redeemed through Christ in the present now) would continue to exist and grow as they do in this age; that they would even expand throughout the universe in other galaxies (which explains to me all that vast empty space God created), only under greatly different circumstances (i.e. no supernatural evil influence, different governing bodies, different rules, etc.), and that we would be ruling and reigning over these populations with Christ. I admit this is a bit more theoretical than I can directly prove from scripture, but there is some support for this. I get this impression from the descriptions in Rev 21, and from other more subtle passages scattered here and there, such as Isaiah 9:7 -- "There will be no end to the increase of his government."
The following passage stood out to me, thus I thought I'd post it here (not picking on you mossy, just thought it was an interesting subject)...
I'm guessing this is influenced by Jesus saying there will be no marriage in heaven. But to me, that's a very vague passage, open to various interpretation. Is there anywhere else in scripture that states births will cease or that we will be alone in the universe for all eternity? And I'm wondering how many Christians hold this view?
The following passage stood out to me, thus I thought I'd post it here (not picking on you mossy, just thought it was an interesting subject)...
Originally posted by mossrose
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