Whatever happens or can happen has already happened before. God makes the same thing happen again and again.

Never ask, "Oh, why were things so much better in the old days?" It's not an intelligent question.

False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction.

Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already---you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there.

How long will you hesitate, faithless people? I have created something new and different, as different as a woman protecting a man."

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished.

Then the one who sits on the throne said, "And now I make all things new!" He also said to me, "Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted."