Christians, what do you think you'll be doing in heaven for eternity, or will it just be rapture?

Question

Seriously, will you notice time passing, will you be able to talk with dead friends, how will you find them, what will you talk about, will you be as you were on earth, or will you be perfect. How old will you be if you die after years of dementia will you be sane in heaven, will you be self aware, or have you no idea at all, but trust it will be great.

Answer 1

Will we continue to change, grow, and learn once we get to heaven?

In keeping with our finite natures, we'll experience process in heaven. We will continually learn more of God—Ephesians 2:6-7 says God puts us in the heavenly realms "in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace." This means God will be revealing himself to us throughout eternity. As angels, also finite, strive to grow in their understanding—1 Peter 1:12 speaks of things into which angels long to look—so presumably will we. As we learn more of God, we will learn more of other people, angels, and the wonders of God's creation. The sense of wonder among heaven's inhabitants shows heaven not to be stagnant, but fresh and stimulating, suggesting an ever-deepening appreciation of God's greatness (Rev. 4-5). In heaven we'll always be learning and discovering.

Will time no longer exist in heaven?

Whether or not heaven operates outside the scope of earth's time sequence, clearly the inhabitants of heaven track with events happening in time (Rev. 2-3). It is a hymn, not the Bible, which says "and time shall be no more." Revelation 8:1 speaks of "silence in heaven for about half an hour." Even the presence of music in heaven implies some sort of time duration, since meter, tempo and rests, which are intrinsic to music, are all time-related. (What is a half note or a quarter note without time?)

2 Peter 3:8 says, "With the Lord [it does not say "with believers in heaven"] a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." This is rooted in the fact of God's infinity—He exists outside of time and space, but there is no indication his creatures do.

Whether there is time in heaven or not, heaven clearly enters into the sequences on earth, right down to inhabitants rejoicing over conversions on earth (Luke 15:7) and martyrs looking for and anticipating judgments on earth (Rev. 6:9-11). The book of Revelation shows a continuous interaction of heaven with sequential events happening on earth. (This contradicts the notion that those in heaven are disconnected from or disinterested in what happens on earth.)

What will we do in heaven?

Rest from our labors on earth (Rev. 14:13). We will experience relaxation and leisure, freedom from the frustrations of tedious and burdensome labor.

Eat and drink and celebrate at the table with Christ and the redeemed saints from earth, communicating and fellowshipping and storytelling and rejoicing with them (Matt. 8:11; Luke 22:29, 30; Rev. 19:9). Communication, dialogue, corporate worship, and other relationship-building interactions all take place in heaven (Rev. 1-22). Saints and angels and God himself will interact together, building and deepening their relationships. "On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines" (Isaiah 25:6). How good will that meal be?

Worship God (Rev. 5:13-14; 7:9-12). Multitudes of God's people, of every nation, tribe, people, and language, will gather to sing praise to God for his greatness, wisdom, power, grace, and mighty work of redemption.

Answer 2

There is no time in Eternity. We will be released from the fetters of time and space. There will be the "Everlasting Now" encompassing past and present and future and beyond and beneath.
When we are purged by full cooperation with the gift of Grace through the merits of Christ alone and we no longer resist and yield all obstacles to the powerof the Holy Spirit and the Rule of the Father,we will experience total bliss and the timeless growth of continuing perfecting through total union with God and all who are of God.

Answer 3

James O, I completely agree. There is no "time" in heaven. We will be with God for eternity, praising Him, worshiping Him, feasting and all the other things the Bible describes. What joy!!

Even so, Lord Jesus come!