ROM 8:19-22
I believe Paul is talking here about the created universe or what we see around us. The physical universe is suffering now and will be set right when Christ returns. This planet is not the planet God originally created. The EARTH was cursed when Adam sinned. So this planet waits anxiously to be freed from the curse. When Christ returns, the curse will be removed and the planet restored to what it was before Adam’s sin. Just as believers will be restored to Adam’s condition before the fall. What that new heaven and earth will be like is beyond our wildest dreams. Our mind cannot even begin to imagine it and no science fiction movie or book will ever be able to picture it.
19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
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