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Millennial Earth
During this period Satan will be bound for a thousand years. Christ will reign upon the
earth with His overcoming saints. Sin and death will still be present, but greatly mitigated.

Isaiah 65:20
There shall no more be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who dies
prematurely; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies when
only a hundred years old shall be [thought only a child, cut off because he is] accursed.
(Amplified Bible)

Christ's reign will transform the earth.

Isaiah 11:4-8
With righteousness He will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the
earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His
lips He will slay the wicked. Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, and
faithfulness the belt about His waist. And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; And a little boy will lead them. Also the cow and the bear will graze, their young
will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will play
by the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

After a thousand years Satan will be loosed and war and judgment will fall once more.
The present earth will be consumed with fire. Then will come the third and final creation
of the earth, which will also be the seventh state of the earth.

New Earth
There will be no sea on the new earth. Seas represent death, and death will be no
more.
These seven states of the earth conform to that septenary structure God has imprinted
upon the creation.When one correctly discerns the Biblical teaching of the earth and its
ages, they will find that many of the conflicts the church has with science are removed.
Yahweh is the author of both the Bible and the creation. There is no conflict between them
when they are correctly understood.
There is much evidence that points to the earth being quite ancient. The Bible does not
deny this. Those who have misapprehended the words of Genesis have supposed that the
earth can be no older than six thousand years. They have not discerned that there exists a
gap of ages between verses one and two of the first chapter of Genesis. This understanding
is obscured by erroneous English translations of the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. Men
translate according to their understanding and beliefs, which are quite often faulty.

Genesis 1:1-21
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form,
and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.
(KJV)

The most popular modern English translations render this passage similarly to the
KJV Bible. The translation makes it sound like God created the earth formless and void, yet
other Scriptures reveal that this is not true. The phrase "And the earth was without form