Heaven - what does the bible teach us about it?

1. HEAVEN
Can't Wait

2. Some people are so heavenly minded that
they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

3. Colossians 3:1 Since, then, you have been
raised with Christ, set your hearts on things
above, where Christ is seated at the right hand
of God.

4. Lesson Purpose
1 John 1:4 These things I write unto you, that
your Joy may be full.

5. 1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a
mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I
know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I
am fully known.

6. Misconceptions
From whence do they come
We'll be floating around on clouds – Playing a
Harp – For eternity – How exciting! Woo Hoo

7. After being forcibly evicted from Heaven
(Isaiah 14:12-15), the devil became bitter
not only toward God, but toward
mankind and toward Heaven itself, the
place that was no longer his.

8. Revelation 13:6
He opened his mouth to blaspheme God,
and to slander his name and his dwelling
place and those who live in heaven.
The enemy slanders 3 things
● God's Person
● God's People
● God's Place – Particularly Heaven

9. Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven – It's easy if you try
No hell below us – above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries – it isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for – and no religion too
Imagine all the people – living life in Peace
You may say I'm a dreamer – but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
and the world will be as one
John Lennon

10. Hank Williams Jr.
If heaven ain't a lot like dixie, I don't wanna go
If heaven ain't a lot like dixie, I'd just as soon stay home
If they don't have a Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee'
Just send me to Hell or New York City, it would be about same to
me

11. Imagine
No Cancer No Nursing Homes
No Crime No Addictions
No Pain No Famine
No Death No Tears
No War No Hate
No Prisons No Disease
No Hospitals No Suffering

12. God: Master Architect
Engineer – Builder
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made,
and it was very good.

13. Tale of two cities
Eden – New Jerusalem
The Twin Cities – Built by God Himself

14. Eden - Paradise
Genesis 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted
a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put
the man he had formed.

15. Eden - Paradise
The Lord God took the man and put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You
are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but
you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat
of it you will surely die.”

16. “Paradise Lost”
And the Lord God said, “The man has now
become like one of us, knowing good and evil.
He must not be allowed to reach out his hand
and take also from the tree of life and eat, and
live forever.” So the Lord God banished him
from the Garden of Eden to work the ground
from which he had been taken.

17. The Curse affected all creation
Romans 8:22 Against its will, all creation was
subjected to God’s curse. But with eager
hope, the creation looks forward to the day
when it will join God’s children in glorious
freedom from death and decay. For we know
that all creation has been groaning as in the
pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

18. Looking for a City
Hebrews 11:16 They were longing for a better
country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God, for he has
prepared a city for them.

19. God is doing a “New Thing”
Revelation 21:5 He who was seated on the
throne said, “I am making everything new!”
Then he said, “Write this down, for these
words are trustworthy and true.”

20. “Paradise Restored”
Heaven on Earth
Revelation 21:2 I saw the Holy City, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed
for her husband.

21. Parallel of the Twin Cities

22. Tears in Heaven
Eden: None mentioned
The beginning of mans sorrows
New Jerusalem: Revelation 21:4 He will wipe
every tear from their eyes
The end of mans sorrows

23. God makes His abode with men
Eden: Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife
heard the sound of the Lord God as he was
walking in the garden in the cool of the day
New Jerusalem: Revelation 21: 3 And I heard
a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the
dwelling of God is with men, and he will live
with them. They will be his people, and God
himself will be with them and be their God

24. I've got a River of Life
Eden: Genesis 2:10 A river watering the garden
flowed from Eden
New Jerusalem: Revelation 22:1 Then the angel
showed me the river of the water of life, as clear
as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of
the Lamb down the middle of the great street of
the city

25. Where is the Tree of Life?
Eden: Genesis 2:9 In the middle of the garden
were the tree of life and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
New Jerusalem: Revelation 22:2 On each side
of the river stood the tree of life

26. Animal Planet
Eden: Genesis 1 And God said, “Let the water
teem with living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth across the expanse of the
sky.” So God created the great creatures of
the sea and every living and moving thing with
which the water teems, according to their
kinds, and every winged bird according to its
kind. God made the wild animals according to
their kinds, the livestock according to their
kinds, and all the creatures that move along
the ground according to their kinds.

27. Animal Planet
New Jerusalem: Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf will
live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down
with the goat, the calf and the lion and the
yearling together; and a little child will lead
them. The cow will feed with the bear, their
young will lie down together, and the lion will
eat straw like the ox.

28. Gardens
Garden of Eden...Duh!!!!!
New Jerusalem: Isaiah 65: they will plant
vineyards and eat their fruit.
Revelation 22: On each side of the river stood the
tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its
fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for
the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any
curse.

29. Principle of Continuity
The New Earth will still be Earth, but a
changed Earth. It will be converted and
resurrected, but it will still be Earth and
recognizable as such. Just as those reborn
through salvation maintain continuity with the
people they were, so too the world will be
reborn in continuity with the old world.
Randy Alcorn

30. Principle of Continuity
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will never pass away.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation. The old has
passed away; behold, all things have become
new.

31. Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the
renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits
on his glorious throne....

32. Principle of Continuity
Conversion does not mean eliminating the old
but transforming it. Despite the radical
changes that occur through salvation, death,
and resurrection, we remain who we are. We
have the same history, appearance, memory,
interests, and skills. This is the principle of
redemptive continuity. God will not scrap his
original creation and start over. Instead, he will
take his fallen, corrupted children and restore,
refresh, and renew us to our original design.
Randy Alcorn

33. This Old House

34. Restoration

35. New Body
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be
raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

36. Pimp My Ride

37. Matthew 22:30 At the resurrection people will
neither marry nor be given in marriage; they
will be like the angels in heaven.
Revelation 19 For the wedding of the Lamb
has come, and his bride has made herself
ready.
Will there be Marriage in Heaven?

38. Will there be Children in Heaven?
New Jerusalem: Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf will
live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down
with the goat, the calf and the lion and the
yearling together; and a little child will lead
them.

39. S _ X
What is your opinion?

40. S O X

41. Who will be in the New Jerusalem?
Revelation 21:27 those whose names are
written in the Lamb’s book of life.

42. Will we know and recognize friends
from this life?
“Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant
about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like
the rest of men, who have no hope. . . . God
will bring with Jesus those who have fallen
asleep in him. . . . We who are still alive and
are left will be caught up together with
them. . . . And so we will be with the Lord
forever. Therefore encourage each other with
these words”

43. Who will be there
● God: Father – Son – Holy Spirit
● Angels
● Believers
● Children
● Animals – Fish - Birds

44. What will be there
Wolves – Lambs – Lions – Goats – Ox –
Calves – Cobra - Fish – Birds - Gardens –
Rivers – Streets – Gates – Walls - Houses –
Children - Mountains – Leopards – Bear –
Trees – Fruit – Horses – Cows – Vipers –
Tables – Clothing – Choirs – Musical
Instruments – Books
Does this sound like a place you've been
before?

45. What Will We Do In Heaven
Worship Build
Eat & Drink Garden/ Farm
Fellowship Rest
Work
Does this sound like a place you've been
before?

46. Big Big House
With lots and lots of rooms
John 14:1-3 Do not let your hearts be
troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my
Father’s house are many rooms (Mansions); if
it were not so, I would have told you. I am
going there to prepare a place for you. And if I
go and prepare a place for you, I will come
back and take you to be with me that you also
may be where I am.

47. New Jerusalem: Isaiah 65:21 They will build
houses and dwell in them; they will plant
vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will
they build houses and others live in them, or
plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people; my chosen
ones will long enjoy

48. Isaiah 65: 17-25
Behold, I will create new heavens and a new
earth. The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice
forever in what I will create, for I will create
Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. I
will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my
people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be
heard in it no more. “Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man
who does not live out his years.

49. Christ proclaims from his throne on the New Earth:
“Behold, I am making all things new” (Revelation 21:5,
ESV). It’s not just people who will be renewed but also the
earth and “all things” in it. Do “all things” include animals?
Yes. Horses, cats, dogs, deer, dolphins, and squirrels—as
well as the inanimate creation—will be beneficiaries of
Christ’s death and resurrection. Christ’s emphasis isn’t on
making new things but on making old things new. It’s not
about inventing the unfamiliar but about restoring and
enhancing the familiar. Jesus seems to be saying, “I’ll
take all I made the first time, including people and nature
and animals and the earth itself, and bring it back as new,
fresh, and indestructible.”
Randy Alcorn

50. So what will be missing?

51. S.I.N.
And the effects thereof
REVELATION 21:27 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.

52. What & Who will not be there
● Sin Satan
● Sickness Fallen Angels
● Tears Unbelievers
● Pain/ Suffering War
● Death Evil
● Hospitals-Funeral homes-Nursing Homes-
Homeless Shelters-Prisons-Cemeteries-
Abortion Clinics-Mental Institutions - Military

53. Revelation 22:3-5
The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city,
and his servants will serve him. They will see his face,
and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be
no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or
the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them
light. And they will reign for ever and ever.