Matthew 25:35

[Baseballguy]

I’m having a bit of trouble understanding why Jesus said this.

Matthew 25:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my worlds will not pass away."

Why is it saying that heaven will be gone? I thought heaven was for eternity? Am I sure I’m missing some context clues here from Matthew 25:32-35 that isn’t allowing me to understand. If someone could please help me understand this better it’d mean a lot!

Thanks!

God Bless!

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

I’m having a bit of trouble understanding why Jesus said this.

Matthew 25:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my worlds will not pass away."

Why is it saying that heaven will be gone? I thought heaven was for eternity? Am I sure I’m missing some context clues here from Matthew 25:32-35 that isn’t allowing me to understand. If someone could please help me understand this better it’d mean a lot!

Thanks!

God Bless!

Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary

Mat 24:35
Shall pass away: because they shall be charged at the end of the world into a new heaven and new earth. (Challoner)

St. Thomas Aquinas Catena Aurea

Origen: Yet shall the generation of the Church survive the whole of this world, that it may inherit the world to come, yet it shall not pass away until all these things have come to pass. But when all these shall have been fulfilled, then not the earth only but the heavens also shall pass away; that is, not only the men whose life is earthly, and who are therefore called the earth, but also they whose conversation is in heaven, and who are therefore called the heaven; these “shall pass away” to things to come, that they may come to better things.

But the words spoken by the Saviour shall not pass away, because they effect and shall ever effect their purpose; but the perfect and they that admit no further improvement, passing through what they are, come to that which they are not; and this is that, “My words shall not pass away.” And perhaps the words of Moses and the Prophets have passed away, because all that they prophesied has been fulfilled; but the words of Christ are always complete, daily fulfilling and to be fulfilled in the saints. Or perhaps we ought not to say that the words of Moses and the Prophets are once for all fulfilled; seeing they also are the words of the Son of God, and are fulfilled continually.

Jerome: Or, by “generation” here He means the whole human race, and the Jews in particular. And He adds, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away,” to confirm their faith in what has gone before; as though He had said, it is easier to destroy things solid and immovable, than that aught should fail of my words.

Hilary: For heaven and earth have in their constitution no necessity of existence, but Christ’s words derived from eternity have in them such virtue that they must needs abide.

Jerome: The heaven and the earth shall pass away by a change, not by annihilation; for how should the “sun be darkened, and the moon not give her light,” if earth and heaven in which these are should be no more?

Raban.: The heaven which shall pass away is not the starry [marg. note: sidereum] but the atmospheric [marg. note: aereum] heaven which of old was destroyed by the deluge.

Chrys.: He brings forward the elements of the earth to shew that the Church is of more value than either heaven or earth, and that He is Maker of all things. [marg. note: 2Pe_3:5]

A Catholic Commentary On Holy Scripture

1. That ‘heaven and earth shall pass’ may mean that the old order is to give way to a new world (19:28, note)—the Messianic era, 29. Possibly, however, 35 which is apparently parenthetical and occurs elsewhere (5:18, note) has no reference to the symbolism of 29 and indicates that our Lord’s words (his doctrine in general) are more stable than the physichl universe.

 

[po18guy]

More on this subject lies ahead in scripture.

2 Peter 3:13
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
13 But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

More on this subject lies ahead in scripture.

2 Peter 3:13
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
13 But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

 

[Shin]

‘And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was no place found for them.’

Apocalypse 20:11

 

[Baseballguy]

Thanks Guys! I understand now! Thanks a lot!

God Bless!