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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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HEAVEN, WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?
HEAVEN, WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?
YESTERDAY I WROTE ABOUT HEAVEN BUT HAVE A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ON IT SO I DECIDED TO CONTINUE ABOUT HEAVEN TODAY. HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE? YOU PROBABLY HAVE, LIKE I HAVE, AND WITH OUR LITTLE MINDS, WE CAN NEVER IMAGINE JUST HOW GREAT AND WONDERFUL IT WILL BE. THE BEST WE CAN DO IS TO SEE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT IT. GOD HAD PROMISED THE ISRAELITES THAT HE WOULD CARE FOR THEM AND TAKE THEM TO A SPECIAL PLACE. HE USED THE TERM THAT, TO THE ISRAELITES AT THAT TIME, MUST HAVE BEEN A GLORIOUS PICTURE IN THEIR MINDS OF HEAVEN. TWENTY TIMES, FROM EXODUS DOWN THROUGH EZEKIEL, HE MENTIONS THAT HE WOULD BRING THEM "unto a land flowing with milk and honey".
IN REVELATIONS 21:10-27, JOHN DESCRIBES WHAT HE SAW WHEN HE WAS CARRIED AWAY INTO HEAVEN. I BELIEVE IT IS THE BEST DESCRIPTION WE HAVE OF HEAVEN AND I WOULD LIKE TO COPY IT BELOW FOR YOU TO READ. I BELIEVE YOU ALL WILL ENJOY IT.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
ALL OF THIS SOUNDS WONDERFUL AND WITH THE STATEMENT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT GOD WAS GOING TO BRING THEM ("unto a land flowing with milk and honey") I AM READY TO GO. HOW ABOUT YOU?
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
