This is all a house of cards that you've built based on presumption - you've imposed these ideas on to the text.
If we were living in “the age to come” then, on the authority of God’s Word, there would be no more death, marrying, crying, pain, sorrow, a curse, or evil. Yet the opposite is the truth! 2+2 = 4, not 22.
· Death is rampant today.
· Decay is everywhere.
· Marriage can be found throughout the earth in our day.
· Crying continues in “this age.”
· Pain is prevalent.
· Sorrow abounds.
· The evidence of the curse is staring us in the face all around us.
· We still live in an “evil age.”
This proves that we are still in “this age” and have yet to arrive at the perfection and glory of “the age to come” and “the new heavens and new earth.”
It seems like you are living in some type of Eastern mystic or phantom Gnostic bubble, which denies the physical reality all around us. You just have to look in the mirror at yourself to see that we have not arrived there yet. Your teachers have misled you. They are lying to you. However, you sadly bought the lie.
Why is the curse still around us? Because it has not been lifted! That will occur at the glorious and climatic coming of Jesus Christ. Then, both the redeemed and this earth will be glorified simultaneously. Don’t let your teachers to see if you, that has not happened yet.
Romans 8:16-18 explains,
“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
Romans 8:19-23 continues,
“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption (
phthora or decay)
into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit],
the redemption of our body.”
This is looking to the termination of “the bondage of corruption” that will occur at Christ coming, where our bodies are finally redeemed.
2 Peter 3:10-13 couldn't be clearer:
“the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
The new heavens and new earth arrive when Christ comes on the day of the Lord. This will see the regeneration of this current corrupt and decaying world and the introduction of everlasting “righteousness.”
Revelation 20:11-15, 21:1-5 tells us:
“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”
Revelation 22:3 tells us that the new heavens and new earth arrive
“there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.”
Once again, the renewal of the earth is carefully tied to the renewal of fallen man; manifestly, as at the beginning so at the end. It is at this finishing stage that all the former consequences of the curse will be eternally removed from the elect through the glorification process. Moreover, this current earth will be simultaneously renewed by way of a fiery renewal.