Randy Alcorn answers the question, "How did your study of Heaven influence the scenes in your novel?"

I want them to be able to do, in most cases for the first time, exactly what Peter assumes all Christians are doing: “looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13).

It’s really something you have to accept by faith, trusting that a measurable result will come, even if the book isn’t read by people for another two years.

The point is where the New Jerusalem is located. It is brought down to the New Earth and is the capital city of the New Earth. 

Since God did not give me the gifts of a monk, he made me a monk’s failed cousin, a writer.