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Animals:

• The General Deliverance (God's provision for animals) by John Wesley

• Will There Be Animals in Heaven?

• You say that in your book Heaven that God will refashion the animal kingdom on the New Earth...

Anticipating Heaven:

• Enjoying God and Enjoying Heaven

• Heaven: Dreading It or Anticipating It?

• Heaven: Our Certain Hope

Children:

• Isaiah 60:22 seems to indicate that offspring will somehow be possible in Heaven. What are your thoughts on this?

• Kids: How will we relate to God in Heaven?

• Will We Be Reunited with Children Who Have Died?

Doctrine of the New Heaven and New Earth:

• How will the Earth be redeemed?

• This World Is Not Our Home...or Is It?

• What does the Bible say about Heaven?

• What does the doctrine of the New Earth teach us?

• When I mentioned your book Heaven and how excited I was about the New Earth, a friend of mine thought it sounded like something the Jehovah Witnesses believe in...

Hell:

• How should a Christian scripturally respond to someone who believes that a loving God would not send anyone to Hell but instead let everyone go to Heaven?

• If we are covered in the blood of Jesus, cleansed from unrighteousness by faith, how does Revelation 21:8 fit with the overall gospel?

• If we understand it is completely insane and illogical to choose sin and disbelieve God, why do we still choose to commit it? Why would people choose to suffer in hell rather than serve God?

• It's Not in the Book! by Ruthanna Metzgar

• What About Hell?

Interviews and Sermons:

• Heaven Part 1: Looking Forward to a New Earth (Heaven sermon by Randy Alcorn) PDF File

• Heaven, Part 2: Resurrected Living on a New Earth (Heaven sermon by Randy Alcorn) PDF File

• Heaven: Future Home, Present Reference Point (A Sermon On Heaven)

• Left Behind.com Interview with Randy Alcorn about Heaven

The Intermediate Heaven:

• Do we have to wait to be with Christ until the New Earth?

• How can we be with Jesus in an "intermediate" Heaven when He is with God in Heaven at His right hand?

• How do we know when Scripture is referring to the intermediate Heaven or the New Heaven and Earth?

• If when we die we are judged and go immediately to the Intermediate Heaven, how can Revelation 20:5 be true?

• I just started reading Heaven and on page 43 are you implying that when we die we aren't instantly with the Lord, but go to an intermediate Heaven, sort of a holding place?

• Is Revelation 4, where it talks about the throne room, referring to the intermediate (present) Heaven or the New Heaven?

• Is There Awareness In Heaven of People and Events On Earth?

• Why don't you say much about what our lives will be like in the Intermediate Heaven in your book Heaven?

Life on the New Earth:

• Heaven: Home of Laughter

• How will we worship God?

• I'm reading your book on Heaven but still struggle with Heaven "being the same, only without sin" because I somehow believe we won't enjoy many of the same things on the New Earth as we do on this earth. Don't you think they will seem rather boring and mundane in the light of being redeemed?

• Rethinking Our Beliefs About Heaven

• The New Earth is going to be so amazing, wonderful, beautiful, breath-taking, tangible, relational, joy-filled (the list goes on and on) and is also void of pain, suffering, death, sin, and grief. In light of all that, how much will rewards really matter?

• What does eternal life mean?

• What Is the New Earth? What Will It Be Like?

• What Will It Mean To See God?

• Why should we sharpen our gifts, skills, abilities and character now while on Earth, partially in preparation for Heaven (where those gifts will be used for Christ), when we'll have eternity to do so?

• Why would God want to serve us in Heaven?

• Will God create new beings for us to rule?

• Will we actually see God?

• Will There Be Oceans?

• Will We Really Own Things In Heaven?

• Will we wear clothes in Heaven?

Marriage:

• Do you think it is possible that on the New Earth there could be the essence of marital relationships with the actual institution of marriage?

• If we understand that sex was holy and sacred in Eden as well as in the context of marriage on this earth, why would we think that sex would be out of place or offensive on the New Earth?

• Is there any biblical evidence that the people at the end of the millennium who stayed true to Christ could keep on reproducing and populate the world?
  

The New Jerusalem:

• How probable is it that right now in the intermediary Heaven is the new city of Jerusalem?

• What Are the New Jerusalem's Dimensions?

• Why do you say the Bride of Christ is the Church when it's actually the New Jerusalem?

• Who are the people outside the gates of the New Jerusalem?
  

The Resurrection:

• Do you get excited about the idea of living as a resurrected being on a New Earth?

• On page 118 of Heaven you comment on "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom" and state that we will have bodies like Christ's resurrected body. But you fail to point out that prior to the crucifixion Christ referred to himself as "flesh and blood" (John 6:51-54) and after his resurrection he referred to himself as being "flesh and bone."

• What Happens When We Die? The Dead Will Be Raised Imperishable by John Piper
• What will our glorified bodies be like?
• What Resurrection and the New Earth Will Mean

• Will we have mortal bodies in Heaven that will need to eat, sleep and be healed?

Miscellaneous:

• Does the Old Testament reveal many, if any, specifics about the location of those who died and were saved?

• How Could Lucifer Have Sinned?

• Pastors and Heaven

• Questions & Answers About Heaven

• Recent Reader Reviews of the book Heaven

• True Thoughts About Heaven

• Westley Allen Dodd's Eternity: Can a Child-killer Go To Heaven?

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AUDIO QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:

• Are there references to the New Earth in the Old Testament Prophets? (MP3 Format)

• Do animals have souls? Will they be resurrected and restored along with the rest of the Earth? (MP3 Format)
• How do you answer someone who says that as we get older we’re past our peak and that’s it? What kind of hope can I give them? (MP3 Format)
• How will God pull all those pieces of everyone’s bodies together at the Resurrection, especially people who have been dead thousands of years? (MP3 Format)
• If unbelievers are already judged and in the lake of fire, why then do we have the unclean or the immoral living outside the city walls of New Jerusalem in Revelation 22? (MP3 Format)
• Is the doctrine of rewards truly biblical? (MP3 Format)

• Isn't is selfish to desire rewards in heaven? (MP3 Format)

• What about babies who die or people who die when they’re elderly? What age will they be in Heaven? (MP3 Format

• What was God's original purpose for humanity when He created them, and how will that be fulfilled on the New Earth? (MP3 Format)

• What will we do in Heaven? Will we enjoy the things we did on Earth? Will we ride bikes? Write? Swim? (MP3 Format)
• Will there be knowledge and learning on the New Earth? (MP3 Format)

• Will we ever be tempted?
• Will we drink and eat in heaven?
• Will God create new worlds?
• How old will we be in heaven?
• How long will we rule?
• How can we know we are going to Heaven?
• Will there be art and entertainment?
• Will there be time on the new earth?
• Will we be able to fly?
• Will we be the same race we are now?
• Will we explore the universe?
• Will we laugh?
• Will we see our pets again?
• Will we travel through time?
• Will there be sports in Heaven?
• The great story that goes on forever
• The wedding singer and the book
• Will we play?

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