Most assuredly not! From North America and from China it would be in exactly the opposite directions. Certainly they are not saved, that is, by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Hebrews 9:24). Jesus said: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” (John 5:17). “And what will we be doing?” someone asks. Neither is there any indication that the new heaven and the new earth are to be entirely new planets. But we do see an instructive parallel between the judgment of earth by fire and the judgment of the lost by fire.

What a pitiable plight would be ours if the Christian’s hope of Heaven were but a hallucination! He wrote: “These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full” (1 John 1:4). Every strain of sin, every evidence of evil will be wiped out in that day.We question the idea of the third Heaven being burned, for no purging or purifying is needed there. There will be a new creation just as each believer who is born again is said to be a new creation. But God is able. One day He will come back for us and take us to our native Home, changing our bodies of humiliation like to the body of His glory. Jesus said “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven” (Matthew 5:16).

Just exactly how God will bring to pass the purifying of the old heavens and the earth and make them new we do not know. How then can we picture Heaven – our eternal home with God? Well said in your comment.To have sins forgiven today we must obey the New Testament. When Jesus said He was going to prepare a place for us, it would be just such a place as this that one would expect the holy Son of God the divine Architect, to build. How do we search for God? The Apostle Paul used this fact to illustrate to the believers their heavenly citizenship with its privileges and responsibilities.

that does not mention water baptism as necessary to salvation, although all believers should be baptized, but not as you falsely believe…in order to be saved. Heaven! Finally, there is the third Heaven, the celestial or “the Heaven of heavens” (2 Chronicles 6:18). Here our Lord was referring to the third Heaven, and He says the Father is there. The dwelling of God always has been a stately abode. So many things make us anxious… How can we control our anxiety? When we read in Scripture that unbelievers shall “perish” (Luke 13:3, 5, 35), and be “destroyed” (Leviticus 23:30; Matthew 10:28), there is no thought of their being annihilated; for we have seen in two previous chapters how that both soul and body will exist in endless consciousness. The hearse, the crepe, the undertaker, the graveyard, and the stonecutter all seek to remind us that we are on the waiting list for death and the grave. “Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” (2 Peter 3:6). You’ve got another gospel Read Galatians.Hello Clary.

3), “For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them” (Gal 3:10).Do our loved ones have awareness of what’s happening on earth even when they are in the prescence of the Lord? Be encouraged and grow your faith with daily and weekly devotionals. Up there “God is with men; He will dwell with them, and God Himself shall be with them.” We shall enter into a fellowship with the triune God that is utterly unknown on earth. “Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Corinthians 13:12). Read […],Top 15 Bible Verses-Searching for God … Does God ever seem distant? . The wonder, the glory, and the effulgence of the home of the redeemed will be seen only through the eyes of our glorified bodies when we awake in Christ’s likeness. I am sorry for your loss, but those who have passed away and are with the Lord cannot come back or see what we are doing. It is not the unwarranted view inscribed on a grave: “Don’t weep for me now, don’t weep for me ever; For I’m going to do nothing forever and ever.”.Heaven would soon become monotonous if such were true. The Christian has a temporary home in a territory ruled by Satan, but he is not to subject himself to the god of this world. . the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Revelation 21:1, 2). The child of God becomes a partaker of the New Nature which is divine, and all stain is purged by the Blood of Christ. This He has been doing, and it was the unique privilege of the Apostle John to get a glimpse of the final abode of the righteous.

But it seems Scriptural and reasonable to conclude that all children who are not able to decide this issue for themselves are divinely safe.Christian parents should, by daily prayer, the reading of the Scriptures, church attendance, and an exemplary life seek to lead their children who have arrived at an age of accountability to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. How often we have gone through the motions when our hearts were not right! An instant after death the departed saint will know more about Heaven than all of the saints here on earth. It must be of heavenly origin and construction.The fellowship in Heaven will surpass anything that we have known on earth.

You should get baptized, but the water doesn’t take sins away…it is only the blood of the Lamb of God that does that.Three things to keep in mind when studying scripture.Thank you Mr. Mattucci. Far away?