Blessed Scriptures.
I may be missing the nose on my face . . . but I still fail to see ANY
even remotely clear, even ambiguous statement that such signals the END of CREATION and the END OF CREATING.
Those Scriptures, to me, merely signal the end of history as we have known it; known of it.
There are probably a near infinite number of options for God from that point forward . . . with some connection to this time/space . . . experience . . . and some relatively only very faintly connected to this time/space experience.
What am I missing?
Revelation 21 tells us what we need to know about the new heaven and earth. It is done, it is God's will, it is His kingdom come. I see nothing in Revelation 21 to say it would not be lively and bright.