Resources by Topic: Heaven

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy says the New Heaven and New Earth will be a restoration of God’s original intent for the Present Earth, a kind of global Eden.

In the second half of this conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy expands on a biblical perspective of Heaven.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy explains why he does not believe purgatory is a biblical concept.

Just as you can take verses out of the Bible and argue for universalism, so you could take various things I say to argue for it, but then you have to look at the whole body of the argumentation.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy addresses the parable of Lazarus going to Abraham’s bosom, the place called Paradise. Randy points out that God is not depicted there, but His people are. God’s people could not be in His presence because the Resurrection had not happened yet. God is going to bring the Present Heaven to the New Earth and relocate His people to the New Earth.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy talks about our resurrection bodies in reference to 1 Corinthians 15. He explains that we will have our resurrection bodies on the New Earth after the resurrection, but not in the Present Heaven.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy says God made us to be not just spiritual but also physical beings, and He promises the eventual physical resurrection of our bodies.

In this conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy provides a biblical perspective of Heaven. He contrasts the Present Heaven and the New Heaven, and explains what the Bible says about our resurrection bodies.

In this clip from a conversation with Jay Rudolph on The Plumb Line Radio Show, Randy explains that God is the only way to get to Heaven. He points to John 14:6, where Jesus says that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.

It’s so easy for us to take what we know here in this present life, and think that what’s in Heaven will be a copy or derivative of our present experience. But it’s more accurate to view things like marriage now as a shadow of the true reality.

How much “time” elapses or how the dead experience any delays while waiting in the current, temporary Heaven is anybody’s guess. Scripture tells us everything we need to know for now and God will reveal as much more as He cares to when the right time comes.

I think He will always intercede for us because He loves us, and because even though we will not always be sinners, we will always be His finite creatures. To be finite is to be needy, even if one is morally perfect.

One day all Heaven will attend the ultimate wedding, and we will be Christ's bride (see Revelation 19:7-9). However, I do envision that people who’ve had important roles in each other’s lives will continue to be friends—and that would include a lot of people who’ve been married.

I can see what you’re saying about that almost sounding creepy. But that certainly isn’t what Randy is conveying. Here is what else he has written that I hope might help.