SweetSurrender

"Great fishing...

Ideal temperature,...

Perfect body,.....

Awesome skies, clouds, planets with rings at night etc...

No fear, remorse, anger, confusion,......

Keep going! You have 6 months to think of anything you like!

Gold!,... Silver!..... RUBIES!!!.....
Hourly backrubs, smiles and little children laughing!
Christmas every day! Great food, Cookouts! soft grass that never needs to be mowed! No pain!!!

Keep doing this for 6 months...........

And when He returns,........... throw your pages and pages of stuff in the trash.


Because His idea of the heaven that you and I will have is so far beyond any of that, that we could never write it down.

THAT is what heaven is like."


.............................See Ya There!! "

I like this answer! I don't see anything wrong with imagining what heaven will be like to your liking. One of the things I will enjoy in heaven is meeting all the Apostles and people like Abraham and even Abraham Lincoln and asking them questions about their families and their lives. I'm looking forward to seeing my twin and if she will still be five yrs. old or as old as me.

We on this forum will be able to meet face to face finally too!

But, the most infathable experience will be to see Jesus, the one who loved me enough to rescue me from my sins!!

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Barb-b

Matt. 5:5 says the meek will inherit the earth.

Jo. 3:13 “No man has ascended to heaven but”
Himself.

When Jesus returns Zech.14:4 says “And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east.

Again Isa. 24:23 says "Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem"

In Rev. 22:12 Jesus says that when He comes that He will bring His reward with Him. “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

Jesus was born to be King. It sounds like here, on earth, not in heaven. Isa. 9:6-7 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Isa. 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, (i.e. Kingdom) For (or because) the EARTH shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.

This Kingdom will go on to restore this earth. Isa. 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Note also; Isa. 35:1The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
There are dozens of scriptures about the time when Christ will come and set up His Kingdom on this earth.

Isa. 24:23 Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously. Also in Isa. 8:18 Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts,
Who dwells in MountZion. (i.e. Jerusalem) The more I read the more it aounds like God's elect will live and rule right here on earth.

; Zech. 14:16-19 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Rain in heaven? It sure doesn't sound right.

I can't think of any place in the Bible that it comes right out and says anyone is going to heaven.??????????????????

Remnant

Revelation 21:9-27
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
14 Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
16 The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
17 Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
18 The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
The Glory of the New Jerusalem


22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.
25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.
27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes[an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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Barb-b

You are right, "Remnant," there is even more proof in the verses about the New Jerusalem. Rev. 21:2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. After the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven, verse 3 says And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
then again in verse 24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.
Continuing the story on into Rev. 22, in verse 12 we see that this is all part of the reward He will bring with Him when He returns. Rev. 22:12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.
There is no end this kind of stuff in the bible. That is why it seems evident that the reward of the saved is the reward that Jesus will bring back with Him when He returns, and not "heaven."
Thanks for bringing that up, "Remnant."

RickyN

Remnant

Amen! Just think one day we will Behold God as He is and will look upon his face for the first time and dwell with Him! Glory!

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PrayerWorrior52

yes Heaven will be great and have many un-imaginable things in it. but it is not for us to sit back and enjoy. it is all for the Glory of God. it clearly says in Revelation that we will "cast our crowns at Gods feet" and we will worship God continually and eternally.

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etnavibes

That would be so cool! I always tell my pooch that he was born without sin so he doesn't have to worry about getting there. Would be fun to have a chat with them!