At this juncture before continuing, I would simply like to stipulate to the fact that not every passage in Scripture where the words “earth”, “heaven” or “heavens” are used is to be understood metaphorically. We will be focusing here on passages with clear covenantal contexts and references. But there are certainly places where this language refers to elements of the cosmological creation, and the context usually makes this distinction plain. Sometimes we will encounter responses which amount to accusations that we are using shallow and sloppy exegesis, ignoring factors such as literary genre and context. These accusations are baseless and serve only to divert attention away from the focus of our study, which is the preeminence of Christ and His Kingdom in the Scripture. This is a spiritual Kingdom, or a Kingdom of conscience. “The New Heavens and New Earth” is synonymous with the “Kingdom of Heaven”, which is synonymous with the “New Creation”. Therefore, to globalize or universalize “the New Heavens and New Earth”, as many preterists do, is to deny its particular, exclusive and regenerated nature. In the study which follows we will see how this error has significant consequences to our theology, and more specifically, to the purity of the gospel. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”