“No longer will you need the sun to shine by day,
    nor the moon to give its light by night,
for the Lord your God will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.
20 Your sun will never set;
    your moon will not go down.
For the Lord will be your everlasting light.
    Your days of mourning will come to an end.
21 All your people will be righteous.
    They will possess their land forever,
for I will plant them there with my own hands
    in order to bring myself glory.
22 The smallest family will become a thousand people,
    and the tiniest group will become a mighty nation. (New Living Translation)

As we have noted previously, there are parts of this prophecy that look beyond the present age to the age to come, when all things will come to fulfilment in the ”new heaven and…new earth…” (Rev 21:1; see also verses 22-27).

I don’t know about you, but I love to look at the moon, and if I could, I would stare at the sun. I am in awe of these ”…two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night” (Gn.1:16), not to mention ”the stars”. You only have to stop and really think about them, in my view, to be made to marvel and wonder – and to feel very small.

But what a day it will be when we will no longer need them. We will have a ‘Sun’ that will ”never set” and a ‘Moon’ that will ”never go down” – the Lord God Himself. He will be our ”everlasting light.” One day, glorified believers will be able to look upon a Light infinitely brighter than that of our sun.

”They will see his face…” (Rev.22:4).