In Romans 8 the Apostle writes about creation itself groaning as it awaits its freedom, when God shall raise the dead. Creation itself looks and longs for resurrection, the resurrection of the dead we look forward to when the Lord returns in glory is also the renewal, restoration, and healing of all creation--there will be newness, new life, new creation breathed into this damaged, hurting world. God who, in the beginning, declared all which He made as "exceedingly good" is not going to let it fall apart into nothingness, meaninglessness, and death, God is saving His creation. For this reason Christ came, for this reason He has called us to Himself and to share in the life of that future world, and to bring all things to their destined purpose in Christ.
Salvation isn't about our "souls" going to a place called "heaven" somewhere "up there"; it is about God setting creation right, in Jesus, and bringing all things to their place which He has purposed for them.
-CryptoLutheran