From most people, I've basically heard that we will lead boring lives. I heard that we will be like angels, not married, and possibly have unisex bodies. I saw pictures of Heaven in Jehovah's Witness pamphlets. In the pictures were beautiful nature scenes with different animals and people dressed in modern clother. Can somebody clarify any of this?
2006-09-24 10:30:19 · 9 answers · asked by jmrocket05 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses understand the Scriptures to teach that God's Kingdom will soon replace all earthly governments.
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite
That Kingdom will rule over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire
While a limitted number of humans will be resurrected to heaven to share in ruling over mankind, the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]
Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind
Jehovah's Witnesses' official website:
http://watchtower.org
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
2006-09-25 10:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the booklets given to you by Jehovah's Witnesses had beautiful pictures of nature with different animals, and people.
Those are pictures of what the earth will look like when God's Kingdom rules the earth, and Satan is abyssed and later destroyed.
Heaven on the other hand is be made of spiritual creatures, that according to the bible aren't man or woman.
Those who are bought from the earth to be in heaven will be kings and priests serving along side Jesus helping those who remain on the earth to return to perfection.
either hope is definitly not boring.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm
2006-09-25 05:34:59 · answer #2 · answered by TeeM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Streets paved with gold so pure it's like glass,
Theres a description in Revelation chapter 20 (I think)
2006-09-24 10:38:45 · answer #3 · answered by creeklops 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't really think that there is such a place as Heaven. We don't know where people's souls go, so we think that they go to place called Heaven. We think that all the dead person's wishes will be granted. I hope I am not hurting you or anything with saying this. If I am then I am very sorry.
2006-09-24 10:34:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
try these web sites
www.amazingfact.org
www.mostamazingprophecies.com
If universe is infinite and time is infinite And the world is perfect with no sin suffering and death. then I imagine that we will spend eternity learning about that infinite universe amongst many other wonderful joyous things.
2006-09-24 10:51:43 · answer #5 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No human can know , and no one who resides there now has ever came back to tell us about it. We'll just have to wait and find out.
2006-09-24 10:32:58 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The place don't matter.
The clothes don't matter.
The furniture don't matter.
It's Jesus 24/7!
2006-09-24 10:34:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lots of badminton. God likes badminton.
2006-09-24 10:47:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I always thought whatever you want.
2006-09-24 10:32:29 · answer #9 · answered by Lux 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋