heaven, will then dwell on the earth, making His home among men. In this renewed cosmos, the sea will be no longer. The sea represented restlessness and chaos for the ancient world. It was as if the primeval waters which once engulfed the earth in the flood were always straining at the world’s edges, threatening to swallow it up again. It was only by the constant vigilant mercy of God that its proud waves were stopped (Job 38:11) and that it was restrained from once again drowning all. In the new