Revelation 21:1 Revelation 21:1 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. The glory and happiness of the church of God on earth prophesied by Isaiah 60:1-22 I the LORD will hasten it in his time;( in Christ’ s time) is here revealed to John in this vision of the new heaven and the new earth, which he saw, whereby is signified the world to come, \ in contradistinction to this world. \ God promised the primitive saints, that he would create new heavens, and a new earth, \ and therefore the latter day saints do, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, \ For the first heavens and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. So the apostle St. Peter testified, \ Nevertheless we according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. By the sea, we are to understand the gathering together of the multitude of many waters, as Genesis 1:10. And by the waters, upon which the whore satteth, we may understand, people, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues, \ called the See of Rome; so the See of Canterbury, and the See of York: Whereby is figured the rage, troubles and persecutions, stirred up by the wind of unsound and popish doctrine of the church of Rome, as Isaiah 57:20.