Everything physical is passing away, and God has subjected creation to futility in hope so that we will choose what is permanent. Life is a vapor, a shadow, and grass that withers by evening. The heavens and earth will grow old like a garment, but God remains unchanged. The temporary booths of the Feast of Tabernacles humble God's people, and their drying leaves show the weakness of all things physical. Like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, believers are pilgrims seeking a city whose builder is God. Paul calls the body a tent, and he directs believers to look at unseen, eternal things. Knowing God is eternal life, and godly character built by His Holy Spirit passes through the grave. Also see sermons and articles about 'Physical Things, Impermanence of'.

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  • Leviticus 23:39-43
    'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"
     
  • Hebrews 1:10-12
    And: " You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
    And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
    They will perish, but You remain;
    And they will all grow old like a garment;
    Like a cloak You will fold them up,
    And they will be changed.
    But You are the same,
    And Your years will not fail."

     
  • Romans 8:20
    For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;
     
  • Hebrews 11:13
    These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:2-9
    "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher;
    "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
    What profit has a man from all his labor
    In which he toils under the sun?
    One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
    But the earth abides forever.
    The sun also rises, and the sun goes down,
    And hastens to the place where it arose.
    The wind goes toward the south,
    And turns around to the north;
    The wind whirls about continually,
    And comes again on its circuit.
    All the rivers run into the sea,
    Yet the sea is not full;
    To the place from which the rivers come,
    There they return again.
    All things are full of labor;
    Man cannot express it.
    The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
    Nor the ear filled with hearing.
    That which has been is what will be,
    That which is done is what will be done,
    And there is nothing new under the sun.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:15
    What is crooked cannot be made straight,
    And what is lacking cannot be numbered.
     
  • Romans 8:18
    For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
     
  • 1 Peter 2:11
    Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,