"...and there was no more sea" [Revelation 21:1.]

Ministry Given By: Shaun beswarick.

Church: Oak Flats christian Fellowship.

Date: Sunday 25th. October 09. Morning Fellowship.

Written by: Shaun Beswarick.

 ¶ This is a puzzling verse if you think about it.  Why no more sea for all eternity?  What has God against the sea?  I have heard it explained that having no more sea will enable all the believers down through the ages to have enough physical space in which to dwell; but this is not a satisfying explanation.

¶ Coupled with other verses about the sea in the Word, this wonderful promise in Revelation gains a much more fulfilling meaning.

¶ In many places in the Word, the sea refers to the sea of man-kind; a restless, agitated and ever changing mass of souls.   Daniel 7:2-3 explains that the "sea" produced four terrifying "beasts", which are kingdoms that have and will rule the earth - the last beast being the worst of them all.  You see, the sea of mankind can only produce a beast!  This is also the picture in  Revelation 13 when the anti-Christ rises out of the "sea".  Left to itself, this world produces only evil and cannot produce anything good - and it is unsatisfying and untrustworthy.  You can't trust the sea!  History is riddled with cases where men have trusted to their own peril-and this world is even more perilous!

¶ Wonderfully, The Lord is over-ruling and withholding this great sea - it is subject to His command and cannot overflow at will.   (Psalm 89:9)  Jesus "commanded" and "rebuked" the wind and waves, producing a "great calm" - a comfort in a time when the sea is roaring like never before!

¶ Consider the Arc.  Noah and his family and all those animals, safe and secure despite the raging waters outside that have easily over-powered and destroyed the lives of all those poor souls who scoffed at the warning whilest the arc was "preparing".  [1Peter 3:20.]

¶ Yes!  No more sea in the new earth!  No more destruction and restlessness!  No more shifting, overflowing and drowning!  In fact, the sea mentioned in heaven is a "sea of glass, like unto crystal" - what an opposite picture to the restless sea that carries the spirit of a beast!   (Isaiah 57:20-21)

¶ A sea of glass has no waves; no blemish; no churning and no hidden danger!  What a peace is coming; and what a peace is ours NOW in Christ.  Though we must dwell in this sea, we are not at its mercy but at the mercy of the "Prince of Peace"  [Isaiah 9:6.] who "commands the wind and waves"!

¶ No more sea indeed!

Jesus Loves You!

God Bless.