From The Lectionary For Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Thus says the LORD:
Lo, I am about to create new heavens
    and a new earth;
The things of the past shall not be remembered
    or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness
    in what I create;
For I create Jerusalem to be a joy
    and its people to be a delight;
I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and exult in my people.
No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there,
    or the sound of crying;
No longer shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime;
He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years,
    and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
They shall live in the houses they build,
    and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.

 Isaiah 65:17-21

Needless to say we haven't come close to that yet, we still await that extent in change, though I wonder what Isaiah would make of our world.  

The Jewish idea of time as being progressive, as opposed to the materialistic-pagan view of reality as static, is one of those things I chose to believe when I chose to believe.  That is that I chose to consider it as a reality even as materialists reject it for those kinds of unstated, unadmitted ideological motives I mentioned earlier today.  

The consequences of choosing to believe that there is change, that change is possible, that change is the will of God who created the universe and life for a reason and towards an end are not guaranteed to be adopted, you have to also accept the Jewish idea of justice, which extends to not only all of humanity but to animals and all of creation, as well, something that is often laid aside or neglected or denied by even those who put on a display of piety and orthodoxy but a belief in God at least makes that a coherent possibility,  there is a reason for morality being moral and that is because it is what The Creator wants, a part of the reason for the creation of the universe and life.  Without that all of the many materialistic replacements for morality, relativism, utilitarianism, the ridiculous substitution for those biological-materialistic atavism often as ill defined as asserted and far more open to the corruption of selfish and hateful motives than the Jewish-Christian-Islamic conception of reality mentioned above.  In fact, they can't even get started with providing a reason that anyone, even accepting the ersatz replacement of non-selfish assertions of ethics, should feel any obligation to act unselfishly if they figure they can work it to their ends, in the end. 

A traditional barroom style atheist would call the vision of Isaiah "pie in the sky"  but at least there is some mention of pie for all in that desideratum as opposed to what atheism offers.   Atheism can't even tell someone why they should figure they have a right to "live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant," nor give the rich and powerful who can steal the product of the labor of those beneath them an absolute reason they shouldn't .  Overcoming the universal and original sin of selfishness takes a lot more than the entire history of academic, intellectual, atheist-materialist-scientistic creation of replacements for revealed religion, it takes an acceptance of a very specific idea of God.