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?
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 ...
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?
Without an eternal perspective, without understanding the reality that the best is yet to come, we assume that people who die young, who are handicapped, who aren’t healthy, who don’t get married, or who don’t _____ [fill in the blank] will inevitably miss out on the best life has to offer. But the theology underlying those assumptions is fatally flawed. We’re presuming that our present Earth, bodies, culture, relationships, and lives are superior to those of the New Earth. What are we thinking?
We know that sixty-six books, those that comprise the Bible, will be in Heaven—”Your Word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens” (Psalm 119:89).
In this recording, Randy Alcorn answers a variety of questions related to the topic of Heaven, including questions about the millenial reign of Christ, resurrection, culture on the New Earth, and creation care. Recorded at the 2011 C.S. Lewis Summer institute at Oxbridge.
In these recordings, Randy Alcorn expands on the ideas presented in his plenary address at the 2011 C.S. Lewis Summer institute at Oxbridge. Randy discusses Heaven, suffering, faith and insights from the life of C.S. Lewis in the context of smaller, interactive seminars.
Randy Alcorn's plenary address at the C.S. Lewis Summer Institute at Oxbridge July 26 to August 3, 2011.
I think questions about the natural world help us know God better, since Romans 1 says he reveals himself to us in creation. We will not be infinite, so we'll never know everything, but we will understand a great deal more than we do now. So I'd say we won't automatically know answers to a question like gravity, but we will be capable of learning the answers. We do know we will be learning about God and His wonders throughout eternity (Eph. 2:7).
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