It gets better:
Will there be "nations" in the eternal state? Revelation 22:2 posits "leaves will be for the healing of the nations." I was always taught that politics is of secondary importance because we won't have political entities in "heaven."

But someone could, concievably counter, that there will be politics in "heaven" (or the restored cosmos), they just won't be "bad guys" there. Okay, I'll bite.

Psalm 72, which many take to be of the reign of Christ, notes, "his enemies will lick the dust" (v.9). But enemies aren't in "heaven." But the psalm goes on: there will be peace in his reign (which both covenant theologians see as now) until the "moon is no more." This can't be heaven because of the presence of astral bodies, which are gone in the eternal state.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College