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The creation of the heavens and the earth, and the creation of the new heaven and a new earth:
"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away" (Revelation 21:1 RSV)
The coming of light, and the coming of the Light:
"And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the Glory of God is its Light, and its Lamp is the Lamb. By its Light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it, and its gates shall never be shut by day - and there shall be no night there" (Revelation 21:23 RSV)
When death will have outlived its purpose:
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more" (Revelation 21:4 RSV)
Humanity began physical life near a river, a foreshadow of the "river of the water of [eternal] life":
"Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb" (Revelation 22:1 RSV)
The Tree of Life returns:
"Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the Tree of Life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." (Revelation 22:1-2 RSV)
Fact Finder: Is Jesus Christ "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"?
Revelation 22:13