Revelation 22:1-2 “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. (2) In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”
The above passage of scripture, in describing the New Jerusalem, reveals the truth to us that seedtime and harvest, cold and heat and winter and summer, will continue in the new earth. For the scripture speaks of the trees yielding their fruits, i.e. seedtime and harvest. And the scripture also speaks of twelve months, in which a different fruit will be produced each month. And so, we see the different seasons will still be in place in the new earth, and the earth will still take twelve months to orbit the new sun that God will create. The seasons experienced on the current earth, are as a result of the tilt of the earth on it’s axis as the earth orbits around the sun. The current earth’s tilt is 23.5 degrees, which makes its seasons quite pronounced. And so, it is quite possible that God will reduce the tilt of the new earth, thus making the seasonal changes less pronounced than what we currently experience.
Michael E.B. Maher
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