2007-06-20 08:09:25 · 15 answers · asked by Jeanmarie 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Heaven is both a country (Luke 19:12; Heb. 11:14-16) and a city (Heb. 11:16; 12:22; 13:14; Rev. 21:12). A country is typically a large territory of various geographies, with citizens of diverse cultures and vocations, sometimes even languages, under one government that provides a common identity. A city is a place of many residences in near proximity. A city's inhabitants are subject to the common government. Cities usually have varied and bustling activity, community events, education, arts, and visitors.
Heaven is and will be a place of great beauty, both natural created beauty and architecture, including streets of gold and buildings of pearls and emeralds and precious stones (Rev. 21:19-21). Heaven will have the advantages we associate with earthly cities, without the disadvantages (e.g. crime, pollution, corruption).
Heaven's gates will always be open. People will travel in and out, some bringing treasures into the city (Rev. 21:24-25; 22:14). Travel outside the city shows that the city is not the whole of heaven, but merely its center. The great city is the capital of an endless empire, called a heavenly country (Heb. 11:16). There is a universe outside the city's gates, to which its citizens have free access. Cities are characterized by visitors coming in and occupants going out for various reasons.
2007-06-20 08:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It will be simply indescribeable. There's a line in a song by Charlie Hall that goes, "Finally the voice I have followed for life, has a glorious face that is lit up with light..." I can't wait for that moment when I get to see Jesus face to face. How perfectly at peace we will be, and how overcome by God's glory.
2007-06-20 08:29:15 · answer #2 · answered by mycathisses 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I imagine it will be very beautiful. When I was little I was very sick and died, but God brought me back to life. I don't know what the inside looks like, but I did see the doors, and it was amazing. They were really big, and looked like nothing I've ever seen before. Like gold or brass made and had cravings on them, that's all I remember before I came back to life. But I know it's going to be amazing, theres suppose to be a sea of glass, and streets of gold, and Jesus will be there and everyone will be so happy, no one will be sad, it will be like a violence free really beautiful and nice looking world!
2007-06-20 08:56:46 · answer #3 · answered by rachel t 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably far beyond our wildest dreams. I just hope God makes a whole bunch more worlds so we can go explore them, help out whatever lives there, and have lots of cool adventures.
2007-06-21 09:12:54 · answer #4 · answered by The Hungry One 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will be an awesome place. Read Revelation 21-22. It certainly will be a much better place than this screwed up planet we live.
2007-06-20 08:12:34 · answer #5 · answered by helper725 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
the belief of accepting the training of the prophet Muhammad originated from Christianity (Catholic Church) interior the regards to accepting the training of Jesus. basically the Jews, Muslims, and Catholics/Orthodox all have self assurance that your deeds justify your self beforehand God. the religion on my own is a Protestant perception which has been taken to the extremes with the Fundamentalists.
2016-10-08 21:43:24 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eternal happiness, no pain/sorrow/grief/illness, etc...
God has a Mansion for each of us and we will do the things we like to do here...
Singing praises to our Savior, knowing our loved ones and friends and people of the Bible.
It will be awesome....
2007-06-20 08:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A place of eternal bliss.......where we will have the priviledge of worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ by sight....and not by faith anymore!
Unexplainable in human terms.....
And man I can't wait to get there
First thing my wife said she's gonna do is yell at Eve........lol
I told her, "Honey....don't worry....you'll forget all about it by then"
2007-06-20 08:13:05 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 45:18: “For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.
What is wrong with living on earth? It is amazing that when problems arise, whether it is between married couples, or friends and family, we run away from the problem by either getting divorced illegitimately or not speak to the person that we are having the issue with. Rather, no one wants to solve problems, but run from them. To illustrate: Would you move from one location to another without counting the costs involved? Of course not. You would count the costs that are involved with moving, carefully weighing your options to see if it would be beneficial to relocate.
The problem is not the earth itself, but the wicked people that are in it that is the problem. What does the Bible show to be God’s purpose for the earth?
Matthew 6:10: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven also upon earth.” Yes, we pray for God’s Kingdom to come on the earth. This is the Lord’s Prayer that everyone is so familiar with it but not so familiar with what this prayer really means.
Psalm 37:29: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” Psalm 104:5: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.”
Genesis 1:27, 28: “Further, God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the seas and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.’” Thus, God indicated his purpose to have the earth filled with the offspring of Adam and Eve as caretakers of a global paradise. After God had magnificently designed this earth for human habitation, making it unique among all the planets that man has examined with his telescopes and spaceships, did the Creator simply abandon his purpose, leaving it forever unfulfilled because of Adam’s sin? You are telling me that all the work, time and energy Jehovah God spent in making the earth would leave it uninhabited forever and go to heaven? Something to think about.
Why is the earth so evil today? Revelation 12:12 says: “On this account be glad, YOU heavens and YOU who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to YOU, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.” Yes, there was a battle between Michael (known as Jesus) versus the dragon (Satan the Devil). Satan and his demons were kicked out of heaven. It was not until this point where part of Matthew 6:10 is fulfilled when it said “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven.” Jehovah’s will will take place on the earth once Satan the Devil is ousted from this wicked system of things and the earth is transformed into a paradise.
Daniel 2:44: “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite.” Are you still fearful of living right here on earth even after Jehovah cleans house of those human rulerships that have defied his name? This folks is an Act of God! Man does not have the capacity to make such a drastic change, only Jehovah God can.
Who will not have endless life on earth?
Psalm 37:9, 10: “For evildoers themselves will be cut off…And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.”
Revelation 11:17, 18: Jehovah God will bring to ruin those ruining the earth.
What kind of people will God favor with endless life on earth?
Zephaniah 2:3: “Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth, who have practiced His own judicial decision. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you may be concealed in the day of Jehovah’s anger.”
Ps. 37:9, 11: “Those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. . . . The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.”
How do we know what Jehovah says is true?
Numbers 23:19: “God is not a man that he should tell lies, Neither a son of mankind that he should feel regret. Has he himself said it and will he not do it, And has he spoken and will he not carry it out?”
Deuteronomy 32:4: “The Rock, perfect is his activity, For all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice; Righteous and upright is he.”
1 Samuel 15:29: “And, besides, the Excellency of Israel will not prove false, and He will not feel regrets, for He is not an earthling man so as to feel regrets.”
Isaiah 55:11: “So my word that goes forth from my mouth will prove to be. It will not return to me without results, but it will certainly do that in which I have delighted, and it will have certain success in that for which I have sent it.”
Titus 1:2: “Upon the basis of a hope of the everlasting life which God, who cannot lie, promised before times long lasting.”
Hebrews 6:18: “it is impossible for God to lie”
Since Jehovah God DOES NOT lie, what must we do NOW?
John 17:3: “This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.” What kind of knowledge? 1 Timothy 2:4 says: “whose will is that all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth.”
Once we do this, we must have faith that is demonstrated by works. James 2:26: “Faith without works is dead.” We act on this faith by following Jesus command of preaching the good news of God’s Kingdom and making disciples until the end comes. (Matthew 24:14; 28:19, 20)
Acts 20:20: “While I did not hold back from telling YOU any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching YOU publicly and from house to house.” If we are not doing what Jesus is commanding us that we should do, then we will be considered bloodguilty. (Read Carefully Ezekiel 3:18-21)
2007-06-20 18:49:05 · answer #9 · answered by the_answer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine, No temptations. Our soul will be completely free to worship God.
2007-06-20 08:35:32 · answer #10 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋