Resurrection, judgment, and restoration

John 5:24–29; Revelation 20–22

Use your preferred translation.

What does Scripture promise—and what questions should we resist answering beyond it?

• What does the passage say? Restate it in your own words before interpreting it.
• Who is speaking, and to whom?
• What is the surrounding context — what comes just before and after?
• Which words or phrases repeat or stand out?

1. What does Jesus say in John 5:24 about the person who hears and believes?
2. List what is absent from the new creation in Revelation 21:4 and 22:3–5. What does each absence promise?
3. What questions about eternity do you find yourself wanting answered that the text does not answer? How should we hold them?

How might hope of restoration change how you care for the physical world and people around you now?

Read Revelation 21:1–7 with someone who is suffering, or pray it for them if reading together is not possible.

Thank God for His promise to make all things new, and ask for contentment with what He has revealed.