In this three-minute video, I share about an upcoming graduate course on Heaven I’ll be teaching at Corban University in Salem, Oregon May 8-10, 2012. The course is available for graduate credit, but anyone is welcome (and encouraged) to come audit it.
Revelation 21:4: I do not think this is referring to the healing of saints. To me, it is a great summary statement: the power of death and suffering is now over (1Co 15:54)—finally Death is swallowed up in victory! The shortest verse of the NT, "Jesus wept" is found in John 11. He was to be sure weeping for his friend Lazarus, but also I think for death itself and its power over creation. In Rev. 21:4 now the curse, the Fall and its effects are over. And now God Himself will wipe every tear! And ...
I shared briefly on Facebook what happened a couple of days ago, but wanted to blog about it now and add quite a few other thoughts and links.
Question from a reader:
I am reading If God is Good. On page 155, Randy implies that the 'war in Heaven' in Revelation 12:7 is past (he uses the word "accomplished"). This seems to jive with the words of Jesus in Luke 10:18 where He says He "saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." Some writers place the Rev. 12:7 'war in Heaven' as yet in the future. Which is it? Past event or a future event?
Over the years, a number of people have told me, “We shouldn’t think about Heaven. We should just think about Jesus.”
This viewpoint sounds spiritual, doesn’t it? But it is based on wrong assumptions, and it is clearly contradicted by Scripture.
I was recently reading your Heaven book again (and came across the section where you answered the "What is the Morning Star" we inherit (Revelation 2:28). You speculate that the Bible means this is Venus. But doesn't the Bible interpret itself later in Revelation when Jesus declares that his is "the bright morning star"?
Are there any other Biblical passages that support the theory that we will "inherit worlds" as you suggested in the book? I know that Mormons believe this to be true, but I'm not finding Biblical evidence of "world ownership" beyond that of the New Earth.
It becomes us to spend this life only as a journey toward heaven... to which we should subordinate all other concerns of life. Why should we labor for or set our hearts on anything else, but that which is our proper end and true happiness? —Jonathan Edwards, The Christian Pilgrim
When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world. It may be said with certainty that Christians who have lost their ...
Astronomy has been my hobby since childhood. Years before I came to know Christ, I was fascinated by the violent collisions of galaxies, explosions of stars, and implosions into neutron stars and black holes
I’ve never been to Heaven, yet I miss it. Eden’s in my blood. The best things of life are souvenirs from Eden, appetizers of the New Earth. There are just enough of them to keep us going but never enough to make us satisfied with the world as it is or ourselves as we are.
Have some things happened in your own circle of friends and family in the past few years that prompted you to write We Shall See God, an upbeat book on the topic of heaven?
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