Sea on the New Earth

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · May 27, 1852

Sea on the New Earth.

"You will see a correct rendering of Rev. xxi, 1, in Prof. Whiting's translation, as follows: 'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and the sea was no more.'"

It is not asserted in the original that there is no sea in the new earth, but that the present earth, heaven and sea will have passed away. It as much asserts that there will be no more heaven and earth in the new creation, as it does that there will be no more sea. All that is affirmed of either, is that the former were passed away—were no more. He beholds the new heavens and new earth, because the former had disappeared. The revelator says nothing about a new sea, as he does a new earth; because the earth often includes both earth and sea. Thus the first verse of Genesis asserts that 'in the beginning God created the heavens and earth.' The sea is not mentioned, and yet the sea was then created; for it covered the entire earth, and had afterwards to be gathered into one place, before the dry land could appear. As the new earth is to be the restitution of all things spoken of by the mouth of all the holy prophets, it must correspond with the Eden state in the existence of a sea, as well as in other particulars."—Advent Herald, April 1852.