DAVID A. MCMILLEN

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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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"WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE?" BY DAVID MCMILLEN

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By: DAVID A. MCMILLEN
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WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE?


THE OTHER DAY 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 ME BUT  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 (NIV) FOR YOU TO READ.  I BELIEVE YOU ALL WILL ENJOY IT.




And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.  It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.  It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.  There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.  The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.  The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.  The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.  The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.  The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,  the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.  I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.  The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.  On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.  The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.  Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names 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.





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