and of Christ (21:3, 22–23; 22:3–4), living as Adam before the Fall (Gen. 3:8a). In this glorious estate, sorrow and death no longer exist (21:4; 22:3a); for God nourishes and sustains us with perfect and abundant life (21:6; 22:1–3). As resurrected, corporeal creatures we are finally, fully, and forever adopted as the sons of God, receiving our promised eternal inheritance (21:7; Rom. 8:18–25). Our physical environment will be dazzling in glory and unimaginable in its grandeur (21:11, 18–21), being