HEAVEN

Turned on my car radio the other day hoping to perhaps hear some jazz or even a little classical on the local NPR station here and endured some of the twisted thinking (no faith or discernment) of a so-called professor of religious studies from Princeton U. spout her psychobabble on the true meaning of the Book of Revelation; mixing truth with conjecture and passing it off as fact. It is alarming what young people (and old) are being taught today under the banner of education.  Well, with my own thoughts on Heaven and what the Bible actually teaches I set out to write down a few. The way I understand God's Word may be simpleminded, but compared to our Creator God we are all just that, simple minded ...don't you? Genius without God is darkness without dawn. Let the light shine!  Hope you will enjoy.

     HOPE OF HEAVEN

Heaven is a lifetime journey
Every hour brings us closer
All we do and all that we say
Verify the Way we've taken

Every prayer and every tear

Nourish our hope of Heaven

   

John 14:2-4

In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.  You know the way to the place where I am going."

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Colossians 3:1-7

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.  Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.  Read Colossians 3 | View in parallel | Compare

Revelation 7:13-17

Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?"  I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  Therefore, "they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.  Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.  For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

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Revelation 21:4-8

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."  He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."  He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.  He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.  But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."  Read Revelation 21 | View in parallel | Compare

Revelation 22:3-7 

No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.  They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.  There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.  The angel said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place."  "Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."

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