Finney was intoxicated not by mere feelings of joy, but by joy itself, a billion burning quasars of pure joy. All joy he had known on earth was like drinking from the contaminated lower waters, far from the source of the stream. Now he was drinking from the Source itself, the fountain-head of Joy.

In this three minute video, Randy Alcorn explains how the redeemed earth, which will be all the best of the old earth and more, is what we long for.

Leave it to a child to ask a great question which has no definitive Biblical answer. Here is what we know.