CHANGING ADDRESSES

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CHANGING ADDRESSES: 
LEAVING EARTH FOR HEAVEN
The Late Paul Grant

Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org July 2013 

Creation was an extrusion

From the eternality of God;

Out of himself and limitless dimensions

Came space, planets, and sod

This world is but a micro-byte

Of the Creator and his worth,

Yet in his intentionality

He had purpose for this earth

Its uniqueness as a planet

Would display the human race

A full reflection of his image,

Of anything less, not a trace

We cannot begin to comprehend

The sheer glory of that creation,

Made for humans with sin untainted

Destined for a sublime vocation

The ‘morning star, son of the dawn’

Succumbed to perfidy,

Expelled from heaven in turn he brought

This virus to humanity

Planet earth with all creation

Groaned with this injury
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Astral, spatial, and global realms

 Suffered the fall-out from this tragedy

 God’s masterpiece was marred 

The humanly perfect was demeaned,

Man and woman disabled at Eden

Yet they would be redeemed!

The Master’s plan was the master plan

He created a new creation,

Jesus as God would atone for sin

And initiate a sublime salvation

Believers in Christ comprise the new race

By Holy Spirit power and anointment,

 Receiving the powers of the new age

They begin to fulfil their appointment

Believers now are being groomed

For thronal and governing function,

The eternal for them has already come,

Their experience a sublime preparation

For God will present a sight unequalled,

A new heavens and a new earth

Peopled and ruled by those made ready

Through the calling of the new birth

The new creation has been under way

Since that time Jesus rose from the dead,

Its fulness will be seen, its glory displayed

Under Christ its majestic Head

 Death has lost its battle and sting
  

Before us our superannuation,

Dying a good death is only a foyer

Into rewards of predestination

So dying and death is simply a matter

Of transition from the temporal, 

A change of address, and transformation 

 Where the normal is phenomenal

The kingdom to come is immeasurable

 Beyond the dimensions of science,

New worlds will exceed the incredible

With Jesus, an eternal alliance

A calling to ministry is a continuum

So no one can ever “retire”,

 Service in which we are now engaged

Will be enhanced when we go higher

Daniel was faithful for ninety years

And assured of a personal function

In worlds to come at the end of the days,        

A heritage of eternal unction

                                                                                                                             (Paul E. Grant  1.2007; Revised 5.2007)                                                                                                                                        

� Isaiah 14:12f;  Ezekiel 28:11f

� Romans 8:20-23

� Hebrews 6:4-5

� Revelation 21:1-7

� 1 Corinthians 15:55

� Daniel 12:13