Wayfarers Chapel and the Swedenborgian Church of North America have collaborated together in launching a new spiritual offering in the creation of an online spiritual community. Please join our newsletter below for more details.

The title of this online community is an exploration into the deeper spiritual states of consciousness that has been a prophecy of both the Old and New Testaments in the Bible. What does it mean to inhabit this new consciousness on our planet? In other words, how can we be living this out in our day to day life? Or, to be on this earth but not of it?

Each week will have a theme and some readings to explore to find their spiritual meaning in our lives presently. There will be time to share in conversations and to ask questions and to also give our lived experience regarding how God and life have been at work in our life.

This is an exploration is open to anyone with a sincere desire to grow spiritually and is open to asking the big questions of life in a safe, supporting community.

Exploring New Earth inspirations from the Bible

Isaiah 65:17-25 NRSVUE

The Glorious New Creation

For I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.

But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating,
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy
and its people as a delight.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and delight in my people;
no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it
or the cry of distress.

No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime,
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.

They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat,
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,
for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord—
and their descendants as well.

Before they call I will answer,
while they are yet speaking I will hear.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
but the serpent—its food shall be dust!
They shall not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain,
says the Lord.

The New Heaven and the New Earth

Revelation 21:1-7 NRSVUE

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. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

“See, the home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them;
they will be his peoples,
and God himself will be with them and be their God;

he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for the first things have passed away.”

And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.” Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

“This new church is the crown of all the churches that have ever existed on this planet because it will worship the one God, who can be seen, within whom is the God that cannot be seen, like a soul in a body.”

― Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christianity, vol. 2: The Portable New Century Edition