transformation of this present world of the kind Rev. 21:4 describes: ‘Behold’, says God, ‘I will make all things new.’ This means that everything created, everything that was here, is here, and will be here is to be ‘made’ new. Whereas ‘to create’ means calling something into existence, ‘to make’ means forming what has been called into existence already. The future, new eternal world is therefore to be the new creation of this world we know. When will that happen? That is difficult to answer, because